Apple posts Leopard Guided Tour
By Nilay Patel 
posted October 19th 2007 12:56PM
posted October 19th 2007 12:56PM
posted October 19th 2007 12:56PM
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Yep, they did stop using him... like 10 years ago!
Come on... does anyone really know who Jeff Goldblum is any longer?
hey! jeff goldblum was (and still is) the man.
Did you see? The keyboard looks wireless, but it is full desktop-like.
Ummm, WHICH Apple store does John work in?
'Cuz.... John's H O T.
(You detractors are just jealous of his Jobs-like diction, his Clooney-esque hair, and his Pitt-ish biceps... Ggggrowwwwllllll!)
I agree.. HOT, HOT, HOT..
I'll add another vote for HOT - I would be all over that. Someone find out what store he's at.
Why are they so obsessed with coverflow? It's a fricking visual effect, not Jesus!
And Peter, that keyboard is not wireless. There is a distinct wire running from the mac to the keyboard.
They don't mention how well Time Machine scales with dropping hard drive space. Does anyone know this?
I quite like how they've fixed up network sharing, and the stacks thing is pretty well implemented.
I don't get the fuss over big, "quick" file previews, though. The drunk who came up with this obsession in operating systems should be ashamed.
Viewing files should be handled by individual programs designed for viewing files, not by a bloatified file manager! What would be nice is if the file viewer was used by default to open these files, had really really smooth loading, and handled file type associations such that one can choose "Edit" within the viewer to jump to an image editor (or such).
Ah well, nicely done Apple, nicely done...
Actually, I take that back. At one point, the keyboard seems to magically become wired, but it is wireless for most of it :)
Actually, I think APPLE is obsessed with Cover Flow, because it is the opening to the Touch lifestyle that APPLE is getting in.
Leopard looks like it had been made to be touched. The icons are more bubbly, and the entire OS looks like it can be used with the finger.
I cannot wait for this iTablet like thing...
"so your saying, retards have to upgrade from PC to MAC to better find their niche? man for a fanboy your stupid."
...then YOU'RE an idiot.
did you read his comment that i was responding to, thats how he said it.
Steve Jobs called, he wants his sweater back.
jobbs would never been seen without a turtleneck please.
son of dustin hoffman?
To all the keyboard nitpickers. The keyboard cable is running up the thin side of the computer stand. They purposely taped/fastened it there during the video.
I feel so sorry for these jealous, griping Windows users. They seem so upset because Vista doesn't offer guided tours. If they did, viewers would get lost in about one minute then have to stare at a BSOD for two more minutes, then watch the guide scratch his crotch for another two minutes. Tour over, Vista over, game over. A Vista tour would be so boring, it would be like watching skid row on rainy Saturday night with the hookers plying their trade.
Such a bunch of whiney Windows users. Nobody's even asking them to watch the stupid guided tour. Obviously they can't resist since they're so lonely with nothing else to do once Vista crashes for the gazillionth time. Why don't you Apple haters take a guided tour of the Seattle city dump. You can find a whole bunch of discarded, unused Vista discs to rummage through.
Green with envy over some simple-minded guided tour ad. How freakin' pathetic can ya get. Some Windows users must have the confidence of a wet noodle to concern themselves about some guided tour.
Now in leopard there an easy button called iTroll..
there's*
omg dey so stole that feature from windows D:
Haha n1 :)
this post needs to be nominated to the troll hall of fame
maybe that's cos you don't need to be taught how to use windows?
it's been the mainstream OS for quite a while now...I'm pretty sure most people have gotten the hang of it by now. apple NEEDS (or probably benefits from) to do these kinda things to encourage people to make the switch.
I'm planning to switch to a Mac anyway, and found the guy in the video friendly and hardly at all snotty when I went through the tour.
Awesome another service pack I can get for $2000.
Why do they all make them dress like Steve Jobs? If he works at an Apple Store, shouldn't he be wearing a shirt that says "Retard"...I mean "Genius"?
judging by these comments, I'd say very few actually took the time to watch the video...
ichat and the remote desktop features were great, but that was the only thing that impressed me.
in my oppinion, windows vista has much better view options, I mean... the icon view is the only half decent one there, coverflow might be good for sifting though pdf's and keynote shows, but other than that, it's just icandy... at least windows got it right when they added thumbnails back in windows me (granted everything else about that os was fail)
functionality > icandy
That ichat assumes unlimited bandwidth available, and everybody to be a mac user.
IF that were true it wouldn't be too bad.
I see a few Amiga and XP tricks in there...oh and wow virt desktops are all the rage now.
The ui polish of Coverflow/TimeMachine impressed me.
Why are mac lovers so defensive about the spelling...it's about context. This isn't a structural drawing or technical diagram; I can assure you that nobody here confused any "mac" replies with the Midlands Arts Centre.
It's a comment. (go home...the barista hates you)
If someone could please locate a post on the intarweb of someone defending the capitalization of XP/Linux/Amiga please let me know...
Dylan K - too funny
Midlands Arts Centre? Now surely that's an oxymoron...
Wow, this is hilarious how people get their panties all in a bunch about this stuff. I've always used windows and just bought my 1st Apple product in the iphone so I have no bias (actually I'm a unix admin so I'm bias towards that). I think Apples stuff is pretty good from what I've seen. You keep seeing references to these "fanboys" but anytime Engadget posts ANYTHING Apple all you see is people bashing anything from "he clinched his jaw" to "Apple customers are stupid".
Does this really get you that worked up? I'm confused I thought Microsoft and Gates were evil, so now its Apple and Jobs? To be honest I think people just like to hate whatever gets marketing hype or is viewed as corporate. Basically its cool to disparage any big company. So much whining and bitching. You guys sound like NOTHING is good enough regardless of who makes it. Now thats elitist. I mean attacking the way people look, how they talk, I mean who gives a crap! What do you guys look and talk like? I'm curious what everyone would have preferred to see.
Apple=elitist, maybe so but reading all these comments it seems like a case of pot calling the kettle....blah blah. This is my 1st post on Engadget but just had to give my observations.
This guy WAS selected from many by apple, as is what he wears I'm sure.
So it's not unreasonable to have a view on a deliberate corporate profile completely fabricated with the thought of influencing their target audience.
Also yeah there are many big companies who are idiotic in their views and strategies, to be aware of that isn't exactly 'elitism'
And yes it is possible for ALL players in a field to be annoying and disliked justifiably by people.
If you are really a system admin I'm sure there are areas where you think all software solutions for it are lacking for instance, and if you are a normal person I'm sure you would not avoid saying that when asked.
Personally I have plenty of criticism on all operating systems I tried, and on most all software packages, and I don't feel I'm wrong in observing flaws when there are flaws.
Geez ten minutes to explain stacks, which are equivalent to damn toolbars windows had since what? 3.1? and you can get downloads to go into a FOLDER!!! hmm, very advanced that. and dropshadows are new to apple? and fav places is old too on all OS's.
And the 'time machine' concept is cute but damn, you can't save EVERYTHING, people delete stuff for a reason, basically they could have just removed their delete function and have the same effect.
And multiple desktops? it's like watching a introduction to linux in 1990 or windows 95.
And emails with decoration, goddamn can someone realise it's not 1950 and you can't allow mail to show html and graphics? unless you wish to be annoyed and disgusted.
Then there's their ichat, with cute functions that assume you have unlimited bandwidth that's never in use, and you only want to talk to apple geeks.
Colour me underwhelmed.
No need for a dumbed-down computer. The mac is whack!
Vista is science project. OSX is a masterpiece.
"So it's not unreasonable to have a view on a deliberate corporate profile completely fabricated with the thought of influencing their target audience."
So the fact that Apple employees wear black t-shrits influence their target audience? So if he wore a grey shrit I guess the target audience would be confused. Or am I missing your point?
"Also yeah there are many big companies who are idiotic in their views and strategies, to be aware of that isn't exactly 'elitism'"
No its not but...
Whats being said on these comments goes a little beyond questioning strategy and views. When you start saying that people are stupid because they buy a certain product that suits THEIR needs and analyzing the people the Co. chooses to be in their frackin commercials tells me its a little more personal than your dislike for a Co.s views and strategy.
"And yes it is possible for ALL players in a field to be annoying and disliked justifiably by people."
Based on what? I highly doubt you guys have met or know any of these people beyond seeing these tutorials, spending 5-10 min in a store talking to them. If what you say is true w/o any of the above being done or even beyond that it IS 'elitism'. Compare it to a race of people (black,white,hispanic) and if thats the attitude people take then we just went backward 40 years. Really what I've seen is more a mob mentality and people just piling on because they can. To point out only the negative and nothing positive is hater-ation. There has to be some bias there.
"If you are really a system admin I'm sure there are areas where you think all software solutions for it are lacking for instance, and if you are a normal person I'm sure you would not avoid saying that when asked."
Yes I'm not imaginary.
Yes they do lack often.
Yup I say something. Hence this is my second post.
"Personally I have plenty of criticism on all operating systems I tried, and on most all software packages, and I don't feel I'm wrong in observing flaws when there are flaws."
No you are not wrong and your second post was a good example of that. But did you read any of the other comments? Thats what I'm talking about. Getting worked up not about the OS but everything but.
Bottom line, guys its not that serious.
this guy is GAY !
Hope so
what is that intro song??
is apple a cult? they all wear black mock turlenecks with the sleeves partly pushed up and use their hands to talk. Its creeping me out.
The guy looks like Satan smiling only his lower teeth... scary the crap out of me.