Dan #1, Derik, and, well, most of the Macworld staff already have — and have had — Leopard. Don’t worry, I loathe them as much as you do. Since I obviously don’t have a copy yet (greedy bastards), I’m getting the Leopard low-down the same time as everyone else — which is good thing, I suppose. Keeps my mind fresh. Or something.
Anyway, Dan’s feeding me little bits and pieces of info to disseminate to you patient folk, the first of which being this post at MacOSXHints, where 512x512 Leopard icons have been confirmed and drooled-upon.
Leopard now includes hi-res (512x512) icons for every Mac system it runs on. These icons are automatically set to your Computer icon, and other Macs running Leopard will show up as what they are in the network pane of your shiny new sidebar. These icons are, of course, transparent, so you can save them as PNGs and use them anywhere you want.
Rob Griffiths (who also has a copy) says the images are “truly stunning,” and that there are in fact hi-res pics for all sorts of system icons (folders, dotMac, Airport Extreme, etc.).
Check the post which has a few more deets on the graphics, a link to one of said icons, and the directory where they reside — so you can check them out for yourself tomorrow (or if you already have Leopard too and wanna find them right now…jerk).
I’m not bitter. I’m just…spiteful.
I guess they went 512x512 so that your icons look nice in coverflow?