Plagued by delays and missing any of the exciting "secret"
features promised a year ago, Apple's next-generation Mac OS X
operating system, codenamed Leopard, will be released to the
public on October 26, the company announced. Leopard is the
fifth minor revision to the company's OS X system, and it is
shipping almost exactly a year after Windows Vista, an OS that
Apple incessantly ridiculed for its tardiness.  Yep, reality
really is distorted in Cupertino. And if you're looking for even
more proof, consider the way that Apple hawks this system.
"Leopard is packed with more than 300 new features and
introduces a brand new desktop," the official announcement
reads. Many of these 300 new features are, of course, comical.
10 of them exist in Xcode, a developer tool (in total, over 40
of the new features are only for developers). Six new features
are, seriously, listed under the screensavers category. Fully 24
of them exist in iChat, Apple's instant messaging application.
There are 6 new fonts features, 3 new Qui