what architectures in your Mac OS ? « /home/kOoLiNuS

what architectures in your Mac OS ? « /home/kOoLiNuS

I found this yesterday. Kind of a fun super unix command. Interesting to see what architectures the executables on your mac are built for.

Leopard first impressions

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.