17" iMac, OS X 10.2 at Palo Alto Apple Store!

[simX]

Today, merely a day after the MWNY keynote, I went down to the Apple Store in Palo Alto and what do I see? A knock-your-socks-off 17" flat-panel iMac. OMG do I want one. That's gonna be the next Mac I get.

And also, to my surprise, they had installed the beta version of Jaguar on it! I got to play around with it – very, very nice. Did you know that with the zoom feature in Universal Access you can zoom in on one single pixel? Now THAT'S what I call overkill.

The revised Get Info panel looks very nice (although the Inspector window seems to have gone), iChat seemed slick (although I tried it out for like 2 seconds), and I really loved Sherlock 3 and the integrated Find feature right in the Finder. Unfortunately, as has been reported, the "minimize in place" feature seems to have been missing.

I didn't have too much time to check it out – I might go one of these days just to get a good look at Jaguar (and to check out all the questions I have about Jaguar when I remember them ).

 

[ddma]

Did you try to resize windows like in the browers or any iApps?

 

[Oo cwilson]

good to hear! i've preordered mine from the apple store and i can't wait! that 17" widescreen makes me drool ^_^.

 

[boi]

whoops! that was me, posting from a friend's computer.

 

[wtmcgee]

i'm glad i waited till after macworld to get a new iMac... now i can get that 17" for only 100 bucks more than i planned on spending

 

[simX]

Originally posted by ddma
Did you try to resize windows like in the browers or any iApps?

No.. but Finder window resizing was super-smooth.. of course, resizing in IE was STILL dog-slow (figures as much.. I should have done Apple a favor and downloaded & installed OmniWeb ).

 

[ddma]

How comes that Apple still can't fix the resizing problem even with Quartz Extreme? It is quite bother me... And my PC friends always laught at me because I cannot resize my iApps' windows smoothly!

 

[simX]

IE is MICROSOFT'S problem, not Apple's. Finder windows, and browsers like OmniWeb resize pretty well as it is without Quartz Extreme. IE is just crap.

 

[ddma]

resize in some cocoa apps are fine in OS X 10.1.5 indeed but still not the best-standard. but iApps like iPhotos is terrible.