..while important one can hope that speed may be the real draw... And there still seem many little improvements that could be incorporated, such as the option of auto-sizing column folder views, an emergency mirror TM backup (vs raid) - and I still wonder about color coding emails & miss those tabbed folders from OS-9 ! ?
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You play marbles by shooting them on vectors on a plane. And, of course, everything rolls along at very high speeds. Wouldn't be surprised if there was more meaning to the name than it just being a pretty rock.

The most distinguishing feature of a snow leopard's user interface is the long fuzzy tail that makes them such spectacular acrobats.

Seriously, I wouldnt read too much into the code names..

First off, they could mean Marble as in the rock and not the game of marbles. Secondly, look at previous codes for Apple products and see if u can derive the product from the code name.. try it without googling :)

Wolf
Elvis
Repoman
Arizona
Sphere
Maui
Garlic

Snow Leopard will be incomplete unless Apple adds NTLM support, along with an option to pass CURRENT LOGGED IN USER'S credentials to the proxy.

support for unlimited ram and unlimited cores with kernel level process distribution and aggregation - that and tabbed finder windows ala safari/firefox. That's it I promise!

I could've sworn that Leopard was about "unifying the UI".

And, you know, the UI was nicely unified until Apple decided "Hey, let's allow Chrome as well!" and then did a "Hey, let's change the look of Mail, but not any of the other apps!" when Tiger was released.

So, perhaps if Apple could learn to keep their hands OFF THE UI for a while, they wouldn't need to keep trying to fix it.

But since they're going to fix it, could they put back the dock functionality as it worked all the way through Tiger, where clicking a folder will actually open it instead of doing stupid and useless stacks, or lists, or menus. Wow, talk about needing a unifying experience...

I could've sworn that Leopard was about "unifying the UI".

And, you know, the UI was nicely unified until Apple decided "Hey, let's allow Chrome as well!" and then did a "Hey, let's change the look of Mail, but not any of the other apps!" when Tiger was released.

So, perhaps if Apple could learn to keep their hands OFF THE UI for a while, they wouldn't need to keep trying to fix it.

But since they're going to fix it, could they put back the dock functionality as it worked all the way through Tiger, where clicking a folder will actually open it instead of doing stupid and useless stacks, or lists, or menus. Wow, talk about needing a unifying experience...

Maybe if you had a clue on how Apple worked internally about UI designs and decisions, then you'd just knowingly shut TFU.

Maybe if you had a clue on how Apple worked internally about UI designs and decisions, then you'd just knowingly shut TFU.

OK, so how do they work? Because a lot of people will tell you that, however it currently has been done since 10.0, the process is majorly screwed.