A Hideous Hybrid
September 10th, 2006
As part of a series of Mac Pro performance tests before putting down for a new system, I watched the 1080p trailer for The Departed, looking for smoothness in playback and scaling. No problems there, but I did catch a mighty fugly interface in the trailer itself.
Screen 1: Windows Explorer tree, buttons stolen from Safari, Graphite theme scrollbar (1 MB).
Screen 2: Mini Mac window widgets, goofily labeled Aqua drop-down menus (1.32 MB).
I guess the budget all went to the parade of stars.
Ew. And who uses Times New Roman anymore? I mean, really.
They even cut-off the corners to make a rounded Search button. I’ll give them one point for following the leader.
You’re all a bunch of nerds.