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5 things I LOVE about OS X Leopard

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 by Matt at 11:42am
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Last night I finally received my OS X Leopard in the mail from Amazon. After a quick installation I was running the newest version of OS X without any seeable issues, and the experience so far has been extraordinary! With over 300 new features its hard to name them all but here are the 5 best things about Leopard to me. 

  1.  Quick Look- Not sure what that song or video file is? Don’t feel like opening up Quicktime or iTunes?  Just press the spacebar to preview it! I never would of that that this would be a big feature but it serves its purpose well. 
  2. VMware Fusion- I have been a big supporter of VMware for a while now and  I can honestly say that this is their best work to date. You can now run your Windows programs, I have to use Live Writer, Notepad( I take XHTML in school) and the Zune software, along side the Apple programs in perfect harmony. You can also have it in full screen on a different space, I will get to that in a minute.
  3. Stacks- Not only the stacks here because the new new dock is stunning! I love how all of my downloaded files are in one place and with a click of the mouse I can view them all.  I also like the documents section because I am always editing work for class.
  4. Spaces- As  I mentioned before I use spaces to keep my virtual machine in a different section, so with the press of F8 I can easily move between them. I also like to keep a lot of windows open so its nice to be able to separate them into different work spaces. 
  5. EVERYTHING! Thats right I love everything so far, subject to change, in OS X Leopard. I  seriously cannot find one thing that I find annoying or just dumb, flip 3d for example in Vista. It seems Apple put there best people on the new operating system. 

Here is a few other things I like.

  • Help, its almost impossible not to get the answer you are looking for via help. 
  • iTunes, I guess this counts as part of the Leopard experience, renting movies is fun and easy to do. 
  • Share Desktop, I can now manage my iMac from my laptop across the house, and I can now tell when someone is using my iMac without my permission :)
  • Web Clips are fun and useful to make and use. 

With all of this said I dont think I will be running Windows ever again outside of a virtual machine.  So what’s your favorite things about Leopard? Are there things you hate? Let us know via a comment! 

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zenfool

January 27th, 2008
at 1:23pm

Stacks is fantastic. Makes me want to own a mac right this second, heh.

alfredo

January 27th, 2008
at 7:24pm

Spaces, Stacks, and Time machine. So far everything works well. Safari crashes on rare occasions, but that’s no big thing.

John B. Kendrick

February 1st, 2008
at 6:22am

My favorite feature? There are really too many to count, though I would say it is spaces. I have a Logitech Revolution mouse and with the extra buttons I have programmed buttons to move forward through spaces and another to move backward. I a third button to show all spaces, and then click the one I want, ala expose. I currently use nine spaces, so photoshop can run in a space adjacent to iphoto, amadeus II alongside of itunes, etc. And like the writer of this article, I have assigned Windows to its own space though I use Parallels for that task. I’ve written about my experiences at my blog, so check it out for more information at http://johnkendrick.wordpress.com

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