Pretty Little Liars is keeping up with the great shows on television today partly due to the amazingly attractive young female cast. Although I only caught a few episodes in the first season (not willfully mind you), whatever maturity and rationality it lacks is fully compensated through the use of diligently maintained coiffure, flawless complexion, and a story that made me thankful the 80s and MacGyver episodes were not nearly as malicious and deceitful.
In keeping up with the "gold" standard of cinematic computer hardware, episode 24 of Season 3 of this marvelously sexy TV thriller features a Macbook in the formulaic "hacking scene" (which all developers and techs wish TV writers would stop using). The desktop featured, however, is clearly not MacOSX's. For one thing, the fonts and window manager is clearly not Apple's (it could be GTK stock and Openbox respectively).
Considering how wealthy the protagonists and antagonists both are, it's nice to see the user (and the TV production staff) of the Macbook bothered to skin his/her MacOSX or used virtualization to run Linux or FreeBSD, or just decided to remove Apple's OS for a less sexy but more functional desktop.
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