I’m preparing for Apple’s 2008 WWDC by getting a laptop (a MacBook Air). Its not my first mac laptop, before it I owned a 12″ PowerBook G4 (which happened to be my second mac), although I got rid of it when I got a 15″ MacBook Pro, which was my primary computer for some time. I got rid of the MacBook Pro when Leopard was released and picked up a Mac Pro. Since then I have been laptopless/without a laptop. The MacBook Air has from what I have seen so far, made a great second computer.

For those wondering, I picked up a 1.6Ghz with the 64Gb SSD, I’m hoping to get maximum battery life out of it. Also, check out either of my two other blogs, OS X 411 and MacBook 411 for stuff I post specific to the MacBook Air (or other macs).

Last year I made a halloween themed desktop background for the Mac, it had an Apple logo shaped pumpkin with iPod bats flying around. It looked outdated so I decided to make a new one. I’ve got a preview below.

Text link to Download it! (1680×1050, easily downsized to fit most macs).

I’ve compiled it from images from NASA of the sky and various galaxies, then added some lines to mimic the default Tiger backgrounds. Its got a leopard look to it (the Time Machine space background) that Apple seems to be using to promot Leopard. I personally can’t wait for Leopard on the 26th (just a week away!!!) so I’ve designed this background to bring a lil’ Leopard to Tiger.

Update: I’ve just realiszed after posting this, that some of you may like my background without certain features, so I made one with each and you can get them from the list below.

1. Leopard Sky - A simple plain background (also great if you wanted to add something your self).
2. Leopard X Sky - The one from above, the basic background with an “X” in the lower left.
3. Leopard Halloween - The sky background with a centered pumpkin.
4. Leopard X Hallwoeen - The sky background with a pumpkin in the center and an “X” in the lower left.

I’ve enabled comments for this post to see what people think my background. Leave a comment if you like it! (Hopefully I won’t be spammed like crazy)