Mac OS 10.5 is here!
First off, a warning. Don’t buy the Leopard Family Pack. I did, because I’m a sucker. I paid an extra $100 for a sticker on my box and an extra word on my receipt. Seriously, Apple, at least give me a CD key or some paper authorization of my extra licenses. Don’t just give me a sticker. I can fake a sticker.
Here are some of the things I really like about Leopard:
- NetInfo Manager is gone! I hated that program so much. It’s been replaced by about 3 different control panels, but things are where you’d expect them to be instead of in an obscure, atrociously ugly utility.
- Frostier frosted glass menus! Eat it, Vista!
- Terminal finally has tabs. iChat also finally has tabs. It’s a tab fiesta.
- Although Screen Sharing uses VNC, it’s not glacially slow; their compression algorithm isn’t half bad.
- Based on my benchmarks Spotlight is exactly a gajillion times faster than it was in Tiger.
- Believe it or not, Leopard actually runs really well on my 4-and-a-half-year-old Powerbook G4. I am really surprised.
- Apparently the OpenGL drivers are much improved, although I don’t really run games anymore.
- NFS mounting (and auto-mounting for that matter) is no longer a gross hack. Hooray for nfs://
- It’s shiny. Wait, you probably already knew that … but oh man it’s shiny.
I had this problem with my Macbook Pro that basically involved my keyboard suddenly not working for minutes at a stretch, but a clean reinstall seems to have solved that problem (fingers crossed on that one). I haven’t tried Time Machine yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
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