Early Reports High on Mac's Jaguar Operating System

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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" early developer-release build reports are in, with some very interesting performance numbers.

Leopard is a remarkable advance in several fundamental ways over previous versions of Mac OS X.

Some features will undoubtedly still be a surprise when unveiled at WWDC, because the core OS and some of the basic bundled applications are all we've seen so far....other projects still need to be merged with the Developer Release in the coming weeks and we'll be able to report on those applications/features, but for now we are mostly looking at the core Leopard operating system itself.

For one thing, the Leopard user interface has continued the considerable Aqua, Quartz and Finder revolutions that began in Jaguar and Tiger. Virtually all incidences of the "brushed metal" theme have been replaced with a sleeker, better-contrasting theme that bears some similarities to the appearance of the current Mail.app....but with a new spin at several layers of the theme design and rendering engine changes that create a remarkably high-resolution, visually rich look which immediately tells the user, at first glance:

"This OS is a big step forward."

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Early Reports High on Mac's Jaguar Operating System

Bit of a drug is it?