Leopard uncaged
Playing with Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) in my office today. Thoughts as a co-worker and I did a quick overview:
- iChat’s interface is much improved with the drawer interface.
- Safari’s “Cut to Dashboard” is wicked. I cut the http://weather.com/iPhone to the Dashboard – easy. Ditto recent forum postings block on extremesims.com.
- Spaces is very fast.
- The Coverflow view in Finder is amazing. I dropped a number of Excel and Powerpoint files on the machine, and Coverflow was able to render them even though Microsoft Office was not installed. In larger and full page view, I was able to scroll and switch tabs. Slick.
- Mail’s interface is a lot more polished. I will have to test Notes and ToDos.
- Did I mention Finder’s Coverflow view is amazing?
- Terminal.app now has tabs a lot of nice presets. Minor thing, but still nice.
I am sure I will notice other things as I continue to play with the system.
Advertisement
