Apple reveals Mac OS X Tiger retail packaging

The lighting/shadowing effect on the center of the X is supposed to imply the new Spotlight technology... it's a pretty clever design but still looks a bit too Panther-ish.

//Carbon

Reminds me more of XMen and the X2 film graphic more than anything else.

I'll take a mutated, super-powered OS!

While the packaging and logo of Jaguar looked nice, it looked a little...I don't know quite how to say it...fun looking.

The packaging and logo of Panther and now Tiger are really nice. Not only do they look great, but they express Mac OS X as being powerful, sophisticated, mature, etc.

Plus, I think Apple is trying to make their operating system look more grown up than their other versions.

Just my opinion.

That's on my mind when I first saw the picture.

The Panther box is also primarily black and silver...the cat motif is only on the CDs.

People aren't going to buy OS X.4 because of the box. And except for the few no-lifers who feel every time they open anything from Apple they have to photograph each step (" And here in picture 66 you see me taking the celophane off the OS X box. I hope you're sitting down, because in picture 67, I'm not opening the box!"), you open the box, pull out the software and either (a) close the box up and shove it on the closet shelf, or (b) fold the box up and shove it in the recycling bin or trash.

Very nice X. Sans serif is the way to go after 5 generations of serif X:s.

But I hope the tiger stripes will be visible somewhere. They would be too cool and powerful to pass up.

I don't care about the box. It's what's in the new OS that I care about.
And I know a lot of great things are there. Can't wait to get my copy.

I did that for our XServe. :P

...will be the cost of OS-X to keep my 400 Ti up 2 date...

...hopefully mail will be able to add addresses from emails correctly ie last name 1st, and maybe java will ultimately work in safari compatibly & with similar speed to a pc surfing experience (it is getting better) and we will have an isync that intuitively syncs secondary addresses & other fields from our palm devices, and maybe even a few accounting options will be available that can download bank data (like a pc) rather than transcribing it all by hand (I know some like doing it & it's not apple's issue) - it is pretty & it is getting better - but it is also very pricey & still a 'compromise' to other options - to date offering wonderful features in some areas & having crippling weaknesses in others...

I couldn't give a darn about the box... Hopefully some of the less flashy but data critical software functionality will be improved...