Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Sep 2009 17:43 UTC
Last week, Culf of Mac published an article showing off some of Snow Leopard's beautiful 512x512 icons, revealing some interesting tidbits about them you could only see when the icons are fully maximised. In this article, I compare some of Snow Leopard's icons to those of Windows 7, and you'll see while both operating systems have beautiful icons, there are some key differences between the styles of these icons. Note that this article contains some large images, so if you're on dial-up, you've been warned.
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HDD space aside (OMG, you lose megabytes of space!), you're a bit wrong about the rendering of smaller icons on OS X.
Smaller icons aren't just resized 512x512 icons. Instead, OS X system icons comes in (as it should) multiple versions, depending on the scale of the icon. Smaller icons have less details and a clearer shape outline. Larger icons can afford to have detail.
Yeah, I agree there is limited utility of a 512x512 icon, but if Apple's willing to throw money and there is clearly not a usability issue, who cares?
P.S. I use OS X at home, and Windows XP at work. I dearly miss the simplicity of icons in System 9/Windows 9x. Here's to hoping either or both Apple and MS go back to the age of minimalist, functionalist icons.