Leopard Quick First Impressions
I’ve been running Leopard for a few days now. I’m going to take some of the 300 features and tell you what I think of them. I haven’t been using them all, because, honestly, who will?
- I can still run Windows Vista on my iMac!
- Wireless still doesn’t work!
- Where’s my fast Hibernation-feature you had up on your site for three seconds, Jobs?
- Stacks are awesome, I use them all the time now.
- Reflective dock is hot. And I’m not all bothered by that perspective thing. I can hardly see it.
- Transparent menubar is sexy at first glance, but it does make the text a little hard to read on darker backgrounds. Bet this’ll be the first thing they change in 10.6.
- New “Aqua” is great. No more brushed metal! But iTunes still doesn’t conform, even with the new “unified” look.
- The new sidebar looks prettier, but it doesn’t really add a whole lot of functionality for me. In fact the text is now much tinier, so it’s harder for me to find the folders I want.
- I can’t find the “Eject All” option. I must be blind.
- Path-bar is great. But it took me awhile to figure you have to double-click to navigate with it. It doesn’t give any visual feedback when you do that either.
- Cover flow is actually useful! Who would’ve figured? I had to find some screenshots I took three years ago and it was in a folder full of jpgs and word documents. Just use coverflow and I quickly found what I was looking.
- Same goes for Quick Look!
- Now looks like Apple TV!
- Finally supports iPhoto events. Makes me think they really intended for Leopard to come out earlier than iLife/iWork ‘08.
- No longer integrates with iTunes. If I go into Front Row my iTunes music stops playing. Any music I start playing in Front Row will stop as soon as I exit the Music menu. Pretty useless then, unless I’m in a situation where I’d want to use my iMac solely as a jukebox.
- Takes a long time to start up.
- No pretty transition.
- Again with the prettier.
- I think the stationary looks classy. I haven’t dared bother anyone with a huge HTML e-mail yet, though.
- Integrated to-do’s and notes are useful, I get my information on what to do in e-mail, so why not add that functionality to the same application? Great move. Now if it integrated with OmniFocus it’d be the Best Thing Ever™
- Better support for IMAP!
- Resize finally built-in? Goodbye Imagewell!
- Uncluttered my desktop!
- Seriously, I could never wrap my head around virtual desktops. But Spaces made it easier. Especially now that I can get an Exposé-esque overview of everything at the touch of button.
- Not smart to make the default button for that F8, Apple. Since on the new Apple Keyboards that’s Play/Pause. No one wants to mess with the F(u)n Button.
- I want different wallpapers on different spaces to make it easier to immediately identify what Space I’m on, instead of having to look in the menubar. 10.5.1?
- Faster!
- Boolean search!
- Almost makes me replace QuickSilver for the dictionary search, applaunching stuff. If only ctrl+space and my trigger weren’t in my muscle memory.
- Works as advertised.
- Actually already saved the day once.
- Alex is creepy.