Comments on: Leopard Lots of Show, Little Go?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:03:16 +0000

But will it blend?

By: GeMenRe

GeMenRe — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:56:36 +0000

I think, Steve Jobs didn’t live up to the hype he created with his, ahhhhhh, secret features…
I got the impression, that it’s still the same Leopard as half a year ago

Without the hype you have to tell, that Leopard looks better than ever.
Come on:
- backdrops on iChat… every 3rd party webcam offers that…
- cover flow… I like it on my iTunes, to see what song’s playing for everything file related else I’m an old fashioned “Norton Commander” user
- different dock attributes… not an enhancement but just some toying on the desktop
- transparent menubar …whoaaw, took them how long to make it Vista-shiny?
- spaces… I’m a big fan of the existing “Virtual Desktop” which sadly won’t be continued and it’s motion detecting screen swapping
I consider these things as mere cosmetics than revolutionary unrevealed secrets…

I was really surprised, that Apple came up with Safari for MS – since I use it for years on my MacBook(s) Pro I installed it also on my MS XP…
…I like it but it crashes when I try to report one of the non-properly-displayed html-pages – but on my XP Firefox is still being my browser, as I can share my bookmarks (thanks to all these nifty little extensions) are able to make my surfing easier…

DynDNS integrated into the Mac is a clever idea. I can see its potential and I hope that Core Animation will be visible and toying around the desktop like Linux does with a proper 3D integration. :-)

By: Rithster

Rithster — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:48:42 +0000

All of these opinions are based on what we have SEEN… let’s hold our final judgement for October when the final version of Leopard ship. Shall we? (When we can ACTUALLY get our hands on it.) After all, I believe Steve mentioned in the keynote that he only displayed 10 out of the “300 new features.” Personally I’m impressed with what I’ve seen so far. Let’s see how futher it will go over the next more months…

By: banjodrengen

banjodrengen — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:07:08 +0000

Leopard is s**t! Apple keep saying that they are the most innovative, but this new release is a joke! The small number of updates does not warrant a new OS. The should have released these as updates for Tiger. I love my Mac, but Apple is no better or worse than Windows, it all depends on what the individual user prefers and with the lack of innovation in the new OS, I believe Apple will lose the attention they achieved with Tiger as an innovative OS.

By: hmurchison

hmurchison — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:01:13 +0000

You can’t do Quick look now regardless of application from what I can see.
You can get close to Time Machine but not close enough
What chatting client allows me to do 3-up conferencing and sharing?
The Finder improvements are substantial. Spotlight now searches shared computers found via Bonjour.

Leopard is impressive

By: Jason Terhorst

Jason Terhorst — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:53:08 +0000

It’s not so true concerning Leopard – the OS itself is great, it’s just that the sessions are pretty flat in some areas, and the expectations that we developers had were squashed.

By: EV

EV — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:59:21 +0000

Is the Notes feature in Mail meant to co-opt/replace Yojimbo type applications?

By: vanni

vanni — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:18:05 +0000

we got short-changed. Its time to tell the emperor he has no clothes.
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/13/appleDevelopers.html

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:36:05 +0000

I saw absolutely nothing in the Leopard preview that you can’t have today with a few freeware and shareware apps – and they aren’t RAM/CPU hogs like they probably will be in Leopard.

They look cool, but is this really all their is??? It took them years to copy a few small apps and put them in the OS? They already bought coverflow for iTunes, so that technology was already around. Quick look? There are dozens of CMs that will give you the same features.

I’ll reserve judgement until I get it on my machine, but I’m not overly impressed just yet.

By: Galley

Galley — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:14:21 +0000

It looks like Overflow launcher will become obsolete with Stacks.