With all the buzz lately about Apple, Macs and of course the new release of MacOS 10.5 Leopard, I figured I’d write my first post on my initial thoughts of Leopard.
I have actually been running Leopard for a few months now (as a member of developer connection) and am overall very pleased with the release. Apple made a lot of progress in stability in the last few builds that they made available to ADC members.
My favorite new features are spaces, quicklook, the new dock (yeah, yeah, I know that a lot of people don’t like it) and the new help and spotlight features.
Spaces seems to have a few quirks such as odd selection of application windows when changing spaces. Overall, I find it to work as well as virtual desktops under linux XWindow managers and as well as virtue on previous versions of OS X.
The dock changes have received a lot of criticism in the last few months. I always run my dock on the left side of my main desktop and keep it rather small. I really like the change that was made to side mounted docks in the final release. It looks great on a dark background.
The spring folders don’t really work all that well. I find that I usually end up clicking on the “show in finder” link after clicking on the spring folder. Oh well. It was a nice try.
Overall, I’m very pleased. I’ve had very few applications that don’t work after the upgrade. I miss the Entourage integration for searching email with spotlight, but I’m sure that will be available once more when the next release of office comes out.
