Comments on: In Defense of Leopard

By: buddhistMonkey

buddhistMonkey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:23:13 +0000

For all of the “where are the secret features” folks: they were revealed at WWDC this summer. In case you forgot, they included Stacks, Cover Flow in the Finder, and Quick Look, none of which were mentioned during Leopard’s initial introduction.

But the biggest “secret” feature (which was never actually secret) is Core Animation. You’re going to see some spectacular new user interfaces coming down the pipe soon from Apple and others. Think Time Machine, Cover Flow and Front Row-style 3D motion throughout.

By: ZingIT » Blog Archive » Leopard is coming

ZingIT » Blog Archive » Leopard is coming — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:30:35 +0000

[...] Apple Blog has a nice review of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). TAB covers the big and little, good and bad changes to Apple’s operating system. [...]

By: Jay Z

Jay Z — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:45:38 +0000

I find Stacks very compelling as a Finder helper. Right now I use MoofMenus to pull together similar apps and files into categories based on workflow for easy access, but it’s by no means a perfect solution. I’m hoping to replace MoofMenu with Stacks.

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:08:21 +0000

This time I will wait… (in case the price drops after 6 weeks)…

By: That Guy

That Guy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:43:24 +0000

Leopard makes Tiger look like a lame cat. For example, not once in testing the last public build have I seen a beachball. All animation and GUI elements are smooth (and this is on a G5 iMac, not an intel).

I have waited for updates to come out before installing OS X on my production machine in the past. I will NOT be doing that in Leopard. Next friday that sucker is going to be in my hands and on my Mac Pro, and I will be happier and more productive for it! I used to loathe Jaguar after using Tiger. Now I loathe Tiger after using Leopard. It’s so… clumsy and inelegant. Clunky almost.

By: Tim Houghton

Tim Houghton — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:29:44 +0000

Faithful reader for several years now, but this has got to be one of the most ill-informed articles I’ve seen on TAB. Is Mr Akhtar a recent switcher?

By: Jac Maloy

Jac Maloy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:40:36 +0000

I don’t really understand the whole fascination with network storage as a target for backups.

Yes, it’s nice and all, but is backing up your whole hard drive to a remote network volume even close to feasible for anyone with less than a T1?

Even the fastest consumer-level broadband solutions are still going to take hours and hours to back up and restore 100 GBs. Hell, 10 GB isn’t going to happen too quick either.

Time Machine not pointing to remote network locations is a positive, not a negative. Why? because it’s not going to be reliable in the real world except for a small percentage of users while the majority of users would see high failure rates and frustration.

Get a second drive, its cheaper than a T1 and faster. You want offsite storage, get a safe deposit box.

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:10:19 +0000

Iyaz Akhtar comments regarding Time Machine “Leopard also has its share of items which are a mixed bag. Time machine is a good idea, but it does require an external hard drive. A better idea would be online storage through Google since Apple and Google are working together.”

Online storage is okay for supplementing your existing back up strategy, but is not a good idea as a primary back up tool. first, many online backup alternatives are slow (like .Mac), have limited storage space, and require Internet access.

I’m not at a point yet where I want to trust my data to someone else at a nameless data center in who knows where.

By: Your Leopard Love Affair - The Apple Blog

Your Leopard Love Affair - The Apple Blog — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:13:55 +0000

[...] Akhtar wrote earlier about some of the new features in Leopard, set to debut in nine days. The full list spans over 300 [...]

By: Eytan

Eytan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:58:13 +0000

ncus…

…which is mostly just a redesign and eyecandy

(emphasis mine)
actually, that is the least of it – that is just what you, as a user, see. Under the hood it is SIGNIFICANTLY changed. Believe me, it does not take 2.5 years to add eyecandy and redesign…
As I said before, the features that enable new classes of applications are phenomenal…