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5 things I LOVE about OS X Leopard

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! 

3 Comments

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

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

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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