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Check out these Vista concept shots. Just look at the packaging pictured above. Would you ever see that lining the shelves at Best Buy? No. And that's what makes seeing this stuff so enjoyable. Sure, the folder concept is completely space inefficient. And what we can only assume is a pure diamond block case would probably be expensive even for mass production. But my guess is that most consumers would be more likely to impulse buy an OS if it looked like something out of an 80s future movie. >>

A report on AppleInsider about Leopard still being an unfinished product was taken down after an order by Apple Legal. "This article has been removed temporarily for edits at the request of Apple Inc." the ap[ple]ologists and fanboys are out in force over @ /. and it is now the fault of Gates and his infernal redmond cabal. UPDATE do you hear the snickering from Redmond after reading Apple's statement regarding its delay of Mac OS X "Leopard." This comes from a company that never passed up an attempt to bash Microsoft's incessant delays of Vista at every turn. Now, Apple's a great company, don't get me wrong, but this attempt at spinning the truth smells of hypocrisy! As somebody in the office said today, "You can't bash Microsoft for being late to the party and then be tardy yourself." How true. Apple claims that in order to finish the iPhone on time, it had to pull developers from the Mac OS X team. It goes on to say that the OS wo...