Those fine folks out at Cupertino have another iteration of their operating system out. They tend to be really good at timing these things, and I find myself contributing to their coffers every year right around my birthday. So after being delayed for a weekend (they didn't ship copies to university bookstores in time for the release, and university bookstore's were selling it for cheaper than the Apple Store), I finally have Leopard. Which is good, I guess. I bought this OS in part because of the promise DTrace held, and in part because of Time Machine. I am currently not doing anything requiring DTrace, and I haven't yet taken the time to teach myself enough about it, and Time Machine requires that I reformat my external, something I am not quite prepared to do yet.
In general, like almost any of the past OS X iterations, it seems to have changed the UI in not-so subtle ways. I could complain about things I find weird, but three months from now, the UI changes are going to be unimportant. Mail is better behaved with IMAP, which is sort of nice. I don't really care that much about the newly added RSS support in Mail, or the changes in iChat. Spaces is cool, I haven't gotten used to it, and am hence using exactly one Space, though it had potential. I don't think I am going to be using the coverflow Finder look much, it does strange things with multiple selections. Stacks are cool, but having the choice of having stacks and pre-Leopard style folders on the Dock would have been better. As would have been the, promised, creating a stack from an arbitrary collection of items feature. I like the new spotlight indexing feature, it is finally usable for what I do, but really, Quicksilver did this pretty well. And besides, I am now stuck without Quicksilver.
All this might make one wonder why I installed Leopard. It wasn't easy (trust me on this, my MacBook Pro had issues with the install). I formatted my hard disk, after backing up most of my data onto the external, the format did wonders for my space problem, and got rid of most of the accumulated junk. I am actually excited about the prospect of using DTrace, even though too much work, and a weirdly busy travel schedule makes this a bad time to learn D. And at some level, not having Leopard would have bothered me, since I'd want to do all the cool things everyone else was talking about, and in some ways OS X upgrades are strange, you're damned if you do upgrade, and damned if you don't. And well there's Quick Look, which is nice for most file types. Really it's a good upgrade, if you are me.
I am going to be away for the next few weeks, leading this weird busy schedule involving travel. Or watching other people travel. Should be exciting, maybe I'll have more fun stories.
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Interesting. I may have to give Leopard a try.
Great post. I especially found it interesting. For this matter, once I discussed with one of my friends, not only about the content you talked about, but also to how to improve and develop, but no results. So I am deeply moved by what you said today.
“…this weird busy schedule involving travel. Or watching other people travel. Should be exciting, maybe I'll have more fun stories.”
Funny. At least you busied yourself traveling. You'll surely meet different people and you'll run out of stories to tell here. (lol)
good thing that you shared your experiences about Leopard.. you said that it not easy to use it so i think i should never try using that..
It is nice to know that you share your wonderful experience.. Von voyage my friend!! keep posting!!
Share and share alike. Like a scent on a breeze that reminds us of older days, File Sharing in Leopard brings back a feature missing since Mac OS 9: folders that can be shared as network volumes. While third-party software could add back this behavior in Tiger, it’s not the same as having it built in. Sharing folders lets you choose which projects or parts of a hard drive to expose to others. This limits risk and makes file sharing simpler, too.
Too many OS's to deal with in this lifetime.
Too many OS's to deal with in this lifetime.
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Any update on this topic? Looks like you've enjoyed traveling huh.
That Sounds interesting, I agree with you.Please keep at your good work, I would come back often.*
That Sounds interesting, I agree with you.Please keep at your good work, I would come back often.*
Finder look much, it does strange things with multiple selections. Stacks are cool, but having the choice of having stacks and pre-Leopard style folders on the Dock would have been better. As would have been the, promised, creating a stack from an arbitrary collection of items feature. I like the new spotlight indexing feature, it is finally usable for what I do, but really, Quicksilver did this pretty well. And besides, I am now stuck without Quicksilver.
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I've had a macbook for years now but I'm resisting upgrading to the latest version of mac os as last time I screwed up all my files.
I'll just wait till I NEED to do it!
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Leopard went deep into the code to streamline. Great!
In general, like almost any of the past OS X iterations, it seems to have changed the UI in not-so subtle ways. I could complain about things I find weird, but three months from now, the UI changes are going to be unimportant. Mail is better behaved with IMAP, which is sort of nice. I don't really care that much about the newly added RSS support in Mail, or the changes in iChat. Spaces is cool, I haven't gotten used to it, and am hence using exactly one Space, though it had potential.
Leopard is a must. A great way to reach an easy path of streamlining.