Leopard

[drplokta]

Impressed with it so far. Never mind the headline features, it's packed full of small improvements. My Desktop icons now know that the Dock is on the right and arrange themselves so as not to overlap it. I can have iChat logged into Google Chat and LJ Chat at the same time. I get previews of fonts. Spotlight is much faster, and usable as an application launcher. It will read 2GB SD cards on my USB card reader. And so on and so on.

Apart from that, Time Machine is pretty but I'll need to remember to plug in the external drive from time to time. Coverflow looks actually useful for browsing directories with images in them. I don't mind the translucent menu bar. Safari still doesn't have a good adblocker, and several of the existing ones don't work any more, so I'm sticking with Firefox for now -- hopefully 3.0 will look more like a Mac application.

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

I am just wondering... why could Tiger not run a 2GB SD card using a USB card reader?

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

hmm. Yes. Tiger read my 2Gb SD card all the time.

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

Apart from that, Time Machine is pretty but I'll need to remember to plug in the external drive from time to time.

What's coming, but is Not Ready For Primetime, is a wireless sync to a hard drive, which solves the TM problem with notebooks. It was originally supposed to ship with 10.5.0, but problems weren't solved, and it was pulled.

An inside source says "Yes, there's a workaround. *Don't use it*." He couldn't offer detail, but the implication was clear -- there's a show stopping bug with TM over AirPort disks, and until it's solved, don't go there.

Once that's fixed, TM will work much better with notebooks.

Everyone I've talked to says Spotlight is actually useful now. I'm impressed, it was a waste of time in 10.4.X. Maybe I won't need Quicksilver anymore

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Are you a dock on the side, or at the bottom, person? Because I hated the new dock with a passion - until I put it back on the side, and it completely changed. I think they realised all the people that valued usabillity over eye candy already put it on the side, and assumed that if you put it at the bottom you don't care about usability much at all, so they might as well let the graphic designers go nuts.

Unfortunately my laptop died on Friday, so I'm not using it for work at the moment. Which is a pity, as there is an awful lot of goodness for developers.

[drplokta]

Dock on the side, given that my laptop has a wide screen. You can get the dock on the bottom to look like the dock on the side, if you Google for it.