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Leopard Laughs at Network PCs
Posted 10/31/2007 at 6:34:27pm | by Roberto Baldwin

 

In a not-so-subtle jab at Windows, when you are browsing a local network with Leopard, Windows machines are displayed as a CRT monitor displaying the dreaded blue screen of death.

 

With Leopard, you can decide who's cool and who isn't.

 

Most developers expected the joke to be removed from the final version of Leopard. Anyone remember the winking Happy Mac of the OS 8 beta?

 

If you feel guilty making fun of Windows machines and their users you can use this how-to to change the default icon to something less hilarious.

 

COMMENTS: 9
TAGS:  Leopard
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avatarShouldn't that Mac icon be a

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2007-11-01 15:17

Shouldn't that Mac icon be a blue screen of death, because Leopard did just that to my machine when I attempted to upgrade. Luckily I had a fresh backup on an external disk to retore from.

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avatarLeopard Laffs.....

Submitted by Still XP (not verified) on Thu, 2007-11-01 17:31

Yeah, ha ha, that sure is a good joke. I refer you to that PC vs Mac vid; Mac: How am I going to pay my rent with a dollar. PC: I don't know, why don't you make one of those great videos?

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avatarHaha

Submitted by Pete (not verified) on Fri, 2007-11-02 08:13

Maybe this is Apple's way of saying "Hey, look! Leopard and Windows have something in common now!"

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avatarForget the instructions to

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2007-11-02 08:54

Forget the instructions to change the icon to something less appropriate in Leopard, I want to change the icon for Windows machines on all of my PCs!

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avatarNot Happy

Submitted by Burl (not verified) on Sat, 2007-11-03 15:20

During the install of Leopard everything went fine, but after I rebooted I noticed that my administrator name and password were no longer listed in accounts. What this means is that I cannot do system updates or any system changes. The apple tech just said sorry and told me to reinstall Tiger and start again.

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avatarYOu know I love most stuff

Submitted by theodoros (not verified) on Tue, 2007-11-06 07:38

YOu know I love most stuff Apple does. I just wish one day Steve Jobs et al look beyond such childish humor. But it is funny no?!!! loooooooool

Okay my boss is looking

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avatarApple Doesn’t Have A High Opinion Of Windows

Submitted by Derek Moyes (not verified) on Tue, 2007-11-06 21:40

I also posted this on the 31st, with a little more info.
http://dereksblahg.net/?p=59

Nice!

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avatarTiger vs. Leopard Shared Display Icon

Submitted by Nikita Madison (not verified) on Mon, 2007-12-31 10:09

Did you ever find out if the icon on the shared servers drop down list changes between Tiger and Leopard depending on the servers' version of operating system?

Just read your article and I'm curious!

Niki

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avatarMake Leopard laugh even more... hahahahahaha

Submitted by Leopard Tips (not verified) on Sat, 2007-12-29 13:20

Make fun of those silly stupid network PCs and Leopard will laugh like a hiena like never before. You can learn even more about them by visiting http://osxhints.wordpress.com

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