First Hand Reports on WWDC's Leopard 9A466
First Hand with Leopard
One blogger posted these positive impressions
Mail is really great, seems super fast
Spotlight much more responsive, no pauses as you type
Safari seems faster and now has that styled text editor as in FireFox (used in blogger for example)
New Finder, not as new as I had expected, seems solid and sensible.
Coverflow everywhere, yeah, whatever..
Quickview is useful I think, certainly seems fast.
Time Machine looks like it works really, really well.
The blog post, however, has since been removed.
Meanwhile, a few forum posts (unverified) report the following about the new Leopard beta:
Completely new mail client. Much faster, better calendar support, keep notes
Stacks are fantastic.
Dock works fine on the sides, 3D but the icons are sideways (proper) with shadow. Looks awesome on the side.
Benchmarks
A Geekbench submission benchmarked new Developer Preview of Leopard on a 3.0GHz Mac Pro (Score 5335), which didn't show a substantial difference compared to results from similar configurations on Mac OS X 10.4.9.
Requirements?
This post lists the requirements of Leopard that are listed in the ReadMe that comes with the developer's preview:
an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 or G5 processor
a DVD drive
built-in FireWire
at least 256 MB of RAM for a Power-PC based Mac and 512 MB for an Intel-based Mac (additional RAM is recommended for development purposes)
a built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer
at least 6 GB of disk space available, or 8 GB if you install the developer tools
As a developer build, this may or may not reflect the final requirement set for Leopard.
Build your Own
Finally, for those who want to pretend that they are running Leopard now, you can download the background image or you can download these applications to approximate the Leopard desktop.
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What do they mean with this? Safari now has that styled text editor as in FireFox
Meh, I've been hoping for a more vertically integrated Finder. Horizontal browsing isn't bad, but get tedious through all the subfolders.
DVD player has been able to play HD-DVDs for a long time. It has blu-ray and HD-DVD settings in prefs now.
I find that hard to believe =) If that's true, I'm buying an external Blu-ray burner soon.
On the one hand it seems like it could be useful. On the other hand it seems like Apple going out of its way to make the O/S look more and more like iTunes.
If thats the case, what is their motivation? Is it a subtle marketing ploy, are they being somewhat self congratulatory on iTunes success and therefore saying 'if its in iTunes, it must be good'?
Dunno. Someone else here said in another thread that cover flow in iTunes is of very limited value if your artwork isn't perfectly up to date, and in spite of Apples efforts to get the right album artwork to me, its still all a big mess.
Of course, cover flow in a documents scenario will be vastly different.
I guess I wished they had called it something else. My PDF's, videos, images etc don't have 'covers' so the name of this feature isn't even correct.
• DVD player has been able to play HD-DVDs for a long time. It has blu-ray and HD-DVD settings in prefs now.
Wait, does this mean we will be able to play HD-DVD's and BlueRay Discs?
I can't seem to be able to download the background image from flickr. :confused:
same here; right-click doesn't do anything.....
help????
I can't seem to be able to download the background image from flickr. :confused:
sorry... wrong link. updated the link. try again.
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I can't seem to be able to download the background image from flickr. :confused:
Same here. Let me know if you figured it out.
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