Mac OS X Leopard. What Else Can I Say?
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Good day everyone!It’s been 10 days since Leopards release, and I am still freaking out about it!!!
This post isn’t exactly a ‘review’ but more of my ‘opinion’ about Mac OS X Leopard and just some things that I have heard about the new great operating system.
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Okay, so I will just start this off with a big !!!WOW!!! because if you thought Apple had perfected the look of Mac OS X, you were wrong. Leopard doesn’t just introduce over 300 + new features, it completely Polished Mac OS X.
The new desktop for the Mac is awesome! Apple has really gone down the right path with using actually images of things instead of the “shiny blue swirly desktop background” seen on Mac OS X Tiger.
Time Machine is a feature that’s got a lot of people very excited about, and it should, because not just the idea for Time Machine is good but when you click on Time Machine the whole desktop transforms and you go into a 3D Timeline of the page you are looking at as it descends back from the date you are at, all the way back to the first day you hooked up your external hard drive.
Quick Look is a feature that I’m sure will save everyone a lot of time, need I say more?Stacks is another big change to the Mac desktop.
Stacks collects anything you want, like a folder, but as it sits in the Dock you can click on it to fan it out as a stack or a grid. This feature is mainly in Leopard to make an easy way for people to keep their desktop un-cluttered.
Spaces is probably my favorite new feature of Leopard. Because sometimes I will have so many activities open in one window (which is all I had, as if I would ever know you could have like 16 different desktops open on one computer screen!).
And of course, The Finder has been upgraded with the new feature of Cover Flow. So you can flip through your documents, pictures, presentations, movies, and music through Cover Flow in the Finder. I havn’t seen the difference myself, but many people have told me that Leopard has actually boosted their computer’s performance; making all of their applications run faster and more smoothly, starting up and shutting down their computer faster, and just running more smoothly in generally all parts of their computer.
Well, this completes my part ‘Review’ and part ‘Opinion’ of Apple’s new version of Mac OS X Leopard which you can purchase at the Apple Store starting at $129.00 for individual or $199.00 for the family pack.
Thanks everybody! I hope this included some information you might have not known about Mac OS X Leopard..Good day!P.S. => Please comment about your thoughts and opinions about Mac OS X Leopard or just anything about Mac or computers. Apple Thanks[tags] Apple, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac, OS X, Leopard [/tags]
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the oracle
November 4th, 2007
at 2:02pm
Not being a Mac user, I can only go by what my friends say and what others report. It seems to be suffering froma few problems, and is not quite as polished as you might think. Not everyone is experiencing problems, but since the hardware is not diverse, these problems should have been squashed before release. (Of course, I’m talking about machines that were running 10.3 or 10.4 without problems)
Brendan
November 5th, 2007
at 6:32am
Well I am running Leopard and I can say it’s been nothing but solid and stale this week. Running it on a brand new 24″ iMac - she flies. I have even changed the dock about 10 times, using hacks to make it wooden. The new 3D actually surprised me given all the giving out I was hearing about it, it’s actually very impressive looking, and not as near distractive as some would lead one to believe.
What I hate about this is if you say it’s good you’re a fanboy in the eyes of all non-Mac users, but it simply is that good. There’s a vast amount of new features, all the little things, and how fast the OS is. It’s “definitely” faster then Tiger, “definitely”.
An example of one of those “tiny” features that never gets a mention, but makes OS X Leopard a joy to use, when you right click the desktop and choose “New Folder”, the folder appears where the mouse cursor is currently residing, and the folder then flies up in position beside your other folder up in the corner of your desktop, nice and neatly. “Trust me” this is a simple feature, but I guarantee it will make anybody go “wow”. I fucking love these little things.
And no, this does not make me a fanboy.
At the end of the day if bloody Linux or Windows did this I’d say wow too. It’s one of those things where you just have trust me, “wow”. And that’s just the small things, and there’s a shit ton of them.
amon91
November 5th, 2007
at 2:38pm
Leopard is just awesome. I’ve been using it since the day it was released.
Bob Morrison
November 7th, 2007
at 3:46pm
Which is better for the environment — a Windows computer or an Apple computer?