New Finder in OS X Leopard

I've been wondering what Leopard was going to be like.  I haven't found anything much on Leopard except for this (yes, I know it's a rumor):

From macosXrumors:

macosXrumors wrote:

According to the sources, Apple will entirely re-design the Finder in its next major Mac OS X update. The new version of the Finder, code-named “Chardonnay” (like the wine), will be totally based on the Spotlight meta-search technology which was introduced earlier this year with Tiger.

The extensive use of Spotlight in the next version of Finder will bring the following enhancements to it:
- significant overall performance increase
- improved user interface
- even more integrated Spotlight related features (search, smart folders, document previews…).

The aim behind this new Finder is to offer to the user the ability to browse his files just as he browses his music. Users will be able to browse files by different criterias (name, type/creator, creation date, modification date…).

Sources also told that Apple may also add the ability to edit meta-tags directly from the Finder, just as we edit ID3Tags on iTunes. Though this feature doesn’t appear to be implemented in early builds, the new Finder’s architecture is making it quite easy to add such a feature, explain sources.

Looks like it's going the way of Explorer in Vista. Figures.  

Though, I'm curious whether it will offer anything more... (sorry if I'm being a bit biased here)


What do you guys think Leopard will be like?


mVPstar

Sarah: I sense... it will cost... $129.99...

I'm looking for my leopard.

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Heh.

Sometimes you just confuse me beer, your always yabbering on about "vendor lockin" and "zomg DRM" When apple probably is worse than Microsoft in both regards.

Oh, wait, I forgot, can't be a troll without a healthy measure of hypocriticism.

BenZila wrote:

Oh, wait, I forgot, can't be a troll without a healthy measure of hypocriticism.

That's the "voice of experience", right?

Beer28 wrote:

I can't wait until those affordable x86 macs come out so I can snag one up.

What makes you think an x86 based Mac will be any cheaper than a PowerPC based Mac?

Beer28 wrote:

because the hardare is dirt cheap and because they said so.

But... everybody knows that PPC are cheaper than Intel's CPUs!

Or the Ministry Of Information has changed history once again?

PaoloM wrote:

But... everybody knows that PPC are cheaper than Intel's CPUs!

Or the Ministry Of Information has changed history once again?

Apple use Intel CPUs. Apple have always used Intel CPUs. PPC CPUs have always been inferior. </bigbrother>

What makes a Mac more expensive than a PC is its hard ware design and engineering, plus its limited user base.

I'm a devoted Tiger user now but I'm looking forward to Vista. This product has the chance to rock big time. The differences between XP and Vista look huge and I mean that in a good way. Lets face it, XP is like 95 covered with lots of blue. It's been the same user experience since 95.
Leopard will be interesting too but I don't expect there to be too much ground breaking new stuff. They already did their 9-X switch which is what MS is doing with XP-Vista.
Just one more thing, who ever said x86 Macs will be cheaper? They will continue to be made up of only top level components and engineering. I doubt very much that a Penium is that much cheaper than a G4/G5 for the customer to notice a hunded or more bucks on the price tag. Don't illusion yourself. The mini is an example that Macs can be cheap too without Intel and sacrificing anything that makes a Mac a Mac.