Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata.
It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, not that OS X ever wasn’t.The complaints you would hear online are all shared by me. I don’t like the translucent menu bar, the 3D dock or the removal of the volume and scrubbing abilities for movies in column view. Some of this is easily rectified using the usual power user Terminal commands. The rest will hopefully get some method for user choice.
The new features are nice, but a few of them are too far removed from features that weren’t broken in the first place.It’s still a great update. The things that matter most to me are under-the-hood optimizations and new APIs that will birth interesting applications from the Mac OS X developer community. It feels like everything has been touched or refined. It will probably take a while to get a handle on all the little things that are truly new, but this is the fun part with every operating system update.
Leopard First Impressions
Yeah, I got Leopard on launch day. I’ve installed it on an old Aluminum Powerbook G4 15″ and my 4 core G5 Powermac tower. Both run I/O and UI operations much faster. It’s especially impressive on the Powerbook given that Leopard is always generating thumbnails or indexing metadata.
It’s feeling like a very media-centric OS, not that OS X ever wasn’t.The complaints you would hear online are all shared by me. I don’t like the translucent menu bar, the 3D dock or the removal of the volume and scrubbing abilities for movies in column view. Some of this is easily rectified using the usual power user Terminal commands. The rest will hopefully get some method for user choice.
The new features are nice, but a few of them are too far removed from features that weren’t broken in the first place.It’s still a great update. The things that matter most to me are under-the-hood optimizations and new APIs that will birth interesting applications from the Mac OS X developer community. It feels like everything has been touched or refined. It will probably take a while to get a handle on all the little things that are truly new, but this is the fun part with every operating system update.