Mac OS 10.5 Leopard build from WWDC 07 [Gallery]

Those in attendance at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week went home with the first new build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard released to third-party developers in almost two months. Thinksecret.com, has posted a gallery of screen shots from the latest build of Leopard Mac OS 10.5.

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Build 9A466 was demonstrated as the first "feature-complete" beta of Leopard and arrived one year after developers first got their paws on Leopard at last year's WWDC.

The biggest change in build 9A466 is the revamped Finder, which sees some substantial changes to the interface, including iTunes-esque windows, complete with CoverFlow for documents and folders.

Stacks, or collections of files that are grouped together in a single dock icon, also make their debut in build 9A466.

Other changes are less apparent, which certainly leaves room for questioning what happened to all those "top secret" features that Apple CEO Steve Jobs teased the WWDC audience with last year, saying they would appear only in later builds.

Back to my Mac is a compelling new feature built in 9A466, but it will be available only to subscribers of .Mac, Apple's $99-per-year Internet services package. Boot Camp has reached version 2 without ever leaving beta as version 1; the most noticeable change there is no longer needing to burn a Windows drivers CD prior to installation.

Safari 3, which has been part of Leopard since day one, sees a further rev in Leopard to version 3.0 (5522.8.3). For those keeping score at home, the beta of Safari 3 for Tiger is at version 3.0 (522.11).

Photo Booth 2, which was broken in Leopard 9A410, is working almost flawlessly again, and most other bundled applications and utilities have newer build numbers in 9A466, although lacking any apparent substantial changes. The lone exception is Preview, which is now at version 3.5 for the first time. Tiger's Preview is at version 3.0.9, and previous Leopard builds contained Preview 3.1.

While the improvements in Preview 3.5 seem the same as Preview 3.1, the About box curiously mentions that "Map imagery owned by NASA", although at first glance there doesn't appear to be any way to access any sort of map imagery in Preview 3.5. The note perhaps foreshadows a feature that has yet to arrive.

Leopard also continues to grow considerably in size: build 9A410 was roughly 5.4GB in size, while 9A466 tips the scales at almost 6.1GB.

Check out the gallery of screen shots here: http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a466