Journal Penguin Follower's Journal: Upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"
Well, I upgraded to Leopard. In fact I'm writing this journal entry on my freshly upgraded MacPro right now. I remember a comment on a forum ( I don't remember which site I was reading at the time ) where some people were afraid of Leopard running slower than Tiger. I remember one person say something along the lines of "every upgrade was faster for me from 10.0 through 10.3, but 10.4 was a slight downgrade in performance. I wonder how Leopard will run?". Well for me (and take note that I do have a system that is less than a year old) the upgrade has not resulted in a performance slowdown. Actually I think my system feels snappier than it did before - if that's even possible. It was already down right quick. For those who may have forgotten or don't know, I bought a MacPro quad core 2.66GHz with 2GB of RAM back in April.
I love spaces first off. I always liked having multiple desktops on *nix and finally OS X has this functionality. And Apple added their magic touch to it. I love being able to see a bird's eye view of the spaces and being able to drag'n'drop an application from one space to another. Sure, on some *nix window managers you could drag an application window to the edge of the screen to move it over to the next space, but on most WMs you used a menu on the title bar to select which virtual desktop you wanted to send the window to.
I find Apple's additions to the Mail program interesting. It looks as though Apple is slowly adding features to both Mail and iCal that replicate the functionality of Microsoft Outlook. Only I like it better than Outlook (which I do have to use everyday at work unfortunately).
The shiny new reflective dock is intersting as well. The one thing that isn't so great about it is being able to tell which applications are running. It used to put a little black triangle under the icon of running applications. Now it is a little blue, oval-shaped light that is not bold enough to see clearly. Apple should make it brighter or try a different color.
While we're on the dock meme I might as well mention Stacks. I do like stacks. I already had a folder I called "Downloads" in my home directory, and I had an icon for it on my dock. So I was already basically the same thing, but when I used my shortcut, Finder would open the folder in a window, whereas I can click on the stack, choose my file, and the stack collapses. It saves me clicking the close button on the finder window (ok, so I'm lazy). The really cool part was that my having a folder already called downloads didn't mess anything up when I upgraded. Upon first boot I found my downloads stack sitting there, and when I clicked on it, my files fanned out like they were supposed to. I like it when things just work.
I've just began to scratch the surface of the new features, but I decided I would write about what I've used so far. So far I am a happy camper with Leopard. I can't say the same about Windows Vista on my PC.
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Upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"
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