New Apple Lust Objects

what did yous replace it with?

I could never decide on something so have stuck w/it :/

The whole Time Machine graphical scheme looks naff to my eyes too. I don't know what happened with Apple and taste when it came to 10.5.

x-post - my standard wallpaper, which is a Rothko painting. Possibly heresy and naff in its own way.

I replaced it w/the server one.

The whole look for 10.5 was shit, really. Was hoping for this rumoured new theme for 10.6, but no such luck.

what's weird is that image stays hidden most of the time and only pops up during certain types of system upgrades. Right? I changed it too, long ago. I replaced it with a retro ad campaign for some kind of domestic do-everything centralized computer system - apparently it would handle the garage door as well as the cooking - but I forget all about it for months at a time because it just lurks back there, behind the desktop, behind the gray apple logo, behind everything.

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6410/picture1axx.png

The new one for SL is worse imo
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3610110215_cd52344c77.jpg

I think it's marginally better, but I still DON'T WANT THIS 90s GEEKART MONSTROSITY ON MY COMPUTER.

how much are ibooks w/this spec worth these days:

Apple Ibook 12"

The battery holds about 4 hours
20GB Hard Disk
Version 10.3.9 but can provide Tiger installation disk
500Mhz Power PC
640 MBSDRAM
Slot-load Combo Drive (DVD/CD)
WiFi Internet ready

I like the rothko btw

£250-£300. (Don't say Wifi "ready" if it's got an Airport card though, that's the phrasing for "doesn't have an Airport card")

The email confirmation on my Snowy order suggested it'd be posted to arrive "on or before" Friday.

Cozen, I suspect yr iBook would be worth less than £250-£300, I'm afraid; we sold a MacBook with considerably better stats than that a year ago for £350.

i could care less about teh login window background. but hard disks on the desktop - that's so OS9 dude.

How do you make the dock look like that?

I'm guessing that's how you guys got it and this is a stupid question but - so does this mean I can walk into an Apple store today and get Snow Leopard, or do I have to wait until the 28th?

nvm, i just realized yes i do have to wait

--How do you make the dock look like that?

get this http://secrets.blacktree.com/ -- a nice way to find hidden preferences like this

I think I'd feel cast adrift on a memory bliss if I had no hard disks on my desktop.

I use Onyx to make all those "secrets" adjustments. Like using the classy dock instead of the 3d glass panel floating in space.

Anyway, Snow Leopard finally fixes something that has bugged me for ages...

"Change search locations.

Change the default behavior of Spotlight to have it search the currently selected folder or your most recent search location."

I've never understood why when you're in a folder and you do a search, it starts searching all these other directories you don't want.

Probably the thing that bugs me the most about Mac OSX is when you have a folder highlighted in finder and press enter, it tries to rename it!JKLJDLKDJ Please, just open the folder if I have it selected and press enter.

Other than that and several other finder related things, it's aces. I hope Snow Leopard has a better finder.

that's too big a change. Hitting return to edit a name is a basic OSX system wide thing, they're not going to suddenly change that.

Oh I know that. I'm still going to gripe about it till the day I die.

ilx tagline

just recalibrated my gamma to 2.2 in anticipation

nice

"All Mac notebooks with Multi-Touch trackpads now support three- and four-finger gestures."

nice

Jeez, what is this wallpaper that's so fucking hideous?? pictures anyone?

like this
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3610110215_cd52344c77.jpg

it's not wallpaper. it hides behind your wallpaper, and pounces on you without warning.

i just put four fingers on my trackpad and all sorts of crazy shit happened!

Kind of says a lot about you mac users that you get a new OS update and all everyone talks about is the wallpaper.

shut up you

jim OTM

that's the same ugly leopard wallpaper they've always had

it looks like the box of a star trek RPG

It's not the same! It's

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3610110215_cd52344c77.jpg

not

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/1806907603_3c5c99d648.jpg

Kind of says a lot about you mac users that you get a new OS update and all everyone talks about is the wallpaper.

We haven't got the update yet. Hence the wallpaper fixation.

OSX 10.7 announced.

Tracer: the 10.6 disks will install onto 10.4

so who's installing over and who's doing a clean install?

I'm installing over. There's a new installer which strips out all the old shit anyway so might as well.

I'll ne taking the opportunity to do a fresh install, things are a bit sluggish these days.

Speaking of, any one with a 3G not S been getting serious slowdown with a lot of stuff lately?

IPHONE, that is

I'm installing over. There's a new installer which strips out all the old shit anyway so might as well.

Doing the same here. Hoping the disk arrives early at work on Friday.

Tracer: the 10.6 disks will install onto 10.4

Wha? Everything I read said you either needed to have 10.5 or else buy the the "Mac Box Set" with iLife and iWork bundled for £129.

I bought a cheap(ish) copy of 10.5 specially!

Wha? Everything I read said you either needed to have 10.5 or else buy the the "Mac Box Set" with iLife and iWork bundled for £129.

It's all inconclusive right now until we get the disks in hand on Friday. See also:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=773217

Installing over, myself, just had to have the whole thing wiped/rebuilt after a HD failed in the spring anyway, so it's pretty clean.

well this guy likes it - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=global-home

Yeah, that's the licence. But the disks in the box don't check; they're full installer. WSJ and MacFormat reviews both say so.

I was swizzed! Seems odd to me though - if Apple wanted you not to skip Leopard, surely it would have been easy for the disks to check your system for 10.5? Maybe they couldn't face the whining from people needing to reinstall it down the line not being able to, having thrown out their 10.5 discs by then or whatever.