And Daniel, not sure if you knew this, but the Mac Up-To-Date program is ancient. Implying that this is in any way related to the iPhone $100 “early-adopter” credit is completely erronious.

elppa, I think I can answer this one. If you already know this, obviously I’m not trying to insult your intelligence.

As you probably know, in Tiger, when you have multiple Finder windows open, one will be active, a.k.a. it’s the frontmost window. The non-active window can be scrolled through while viewing the active window so the user doesn’t have to make the non-active window active. It’s really nice for dragging and dropping multiple documents from one folder to another.

If that didn’t make sense, just open two Finder windows that have scroll bars and try it yourself.

This is a new, or at least improved feature, because in Tiger right now, only the Finder, iTunes and a few other apps do this. What I wonder is if Apple means this will work for windows within a running application, or if it will work across different apps so I could be in iTunes and scroll Safari windows.

Also, a tip: hold command and click-hold on any non-active window. This allows you to move the window without changing apps.

Apple will be sued because that’s just evil! How dare they offer a rebate to people who bought a Mac after October first! How dare they do something nice for their customers! How dare they make a punching bag out of Microsoft and friends!

I don’t know what to tell you except that you’re wrong. I’m gonna go find my lawyer because I bought a Macbook in November 2006 and I want a rebate too! Let’s see… a $119 rebate… I’ll sue for 2 million and attorney’s fees!

Sebastian

This is unlikely to happen. Apple have made low or no cost upgrades available to very recent purchasers of Apple hardware for the launches of all previous versions of OSX going back to Jaguar at least, as they should and indeed must do. Otherwise hardware sales prior to launch would just freeze which would be in nobody’s interest.

$116 for personal use of university affiliated persons, home schoolers, etc.

Anyway, I’m not sure the student discount is $69 anymore. While I see that price when I go through my local university’s site, I think it may be outdated or there’s a problem.

If you go to the normal retail online Apple Store and then use their Education links and pick your school from there, it lists Leopard at $116. I can be more specific if necessary.

I’m really hoping I can still snag Leopard for $69 at the MU bookstore, but I’m guessing in a few days the site will be “fixed” and the price fixed at $116.

Looking forward to upcoming articles. I’d like to hear your thoughts, Daniel, on the new Zune and accompanying Marketplace or whatever it’s called as it now has quite a bit of DRM-free music. I’m guessing Apple has more DRM-free music, they simply aren’t grandstanding like M$ does before their products/services even hit the market.