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MOSR is a bunch of bullshit. Take the opening paragraph for instance:
For one thing, the Leopard user interface has continued the considerable Aqua, Quartz and Finder revolutions that began in Jaguar and Tiger. Virtually all incidences of the “brushed metal” theme have been replaced with a sleeker, better-contrasting theme that bears some similarities to the appearance of the current Mail.app....but with a new spin at several layers of the theme design and rendering engine changes that create a remarkably high-resolution, visually rich look which immediately tells the user, at first glance:
“This OS is a big step forward.”
You don’t need any insider information whatsoever to arrive at this conclusion. EVERY update of OS X has some noticeable interface changes. With all of iLife moving to unified metal it is completely reasonable to expect that Apple will build that look into Leopard. And the last sentence there is just a bunch of buzzwords thrown around to make it sound like they have more details than they really do.
The Dashboard will continue to be an environment for running third party Widgets, but by consolidating so much of its operating system into the Dashboard, it is made very portable so that the System Widgets can easily be adopted for use on iPhone, iPod, and a multitude of other Apple devices that will eventually run an adapted form of Mac OS X itself....
Baloney. In one breath they’ve confirmed the existence of an iPhone, and also claim that that device, plus the iPod and other unreleased devices, are all going to run OS X someday and you’ll be able to synchronize your Dashboard widgets with them. That is a LOT of speculation for one sentence 
Along with the consolidation of as many functions as possible into Widget-like form in the “Dashboard”, and the blending of Widgets into the “main application space” of Leopard, the user interface will get some other changes.
Ok, so more widgets - completely reasonable. Blending of widgets into the main application space? That’s a developer feature possible today in Tiger. They’re merely speculating that Apple will add an option to enable this to the interface. The ability is already there.
You have not seen anywhere near Apple’s best work with Intel and highly optimized compilers with mature code design from the ground up to take advantage of the uniquely efficient Core microarchitecture
Better optimizations for Intel. Surprise!
12-20% performance boosts on many common system functions which nearly all applications access, like Core Graphics, Quartz Extreme, Aqua, AudioAL, et cetera
Again, this happens with every upgrade. Why wouldn’t it?
The numbers we’ve seen, while specifically embargoed in this instance because some developers may have access to different builds and therefore get different numbers which could potentially identify them at this point
Aka, “the numbers we’ve seen, while specifically embargoed in this instance because we don’t actually know what they are and we’re just making it up...”
Basically, this is all written to make it sound like they have vast amounts of insider information and they can only tell “the rest of us” certain things so as to not get into trouble. In reality, they know nothing more than we do, and they don’t give any truly specific details because they don’t know them.
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