So I’ve been spending some time with Leopard, which I picked up at 6:00 PM on Friday at a local computer store. It took a while to install (I did archive and install, which probably didn’t help, but it also took a while to verify the install media).
I like it. The dock is kind of nice (I wasn’t expecting to like it) and I’m getting used to the menu bar (I think I miss it being white). I know that I don’t like the new icons, I think the old ones were better. And for some reason Stickies won’t pop-up at login like it used to. Coverflow is kind of interesting, but I don’t see myself using it much.
There are some nice things though. They finally added a Cut command to Finder. That is one of the things that really puzzled me when I first moved to the Mac. Stacks seem a little like fluff, but overall I’m quite happy. Chess works again (for some reason, my install seemed to get messed up and it would always get stuck on an infinite loop). I really love the built in VNC support. While I’ve been using third party programs for that, this will making fixing computer problems on my families computers easier. Mail seems nice (and I’m sure I’d love some of the new features if I kept my calendar and such on my Mac like I used to). My only regret there is that a fantastic little plugin I use (called ActOn isn’t available for it yet).
I want to try Time Machine, but the disk I will let it use has my current backup on it and I want to wait a little longer to make sure I don’t need to revert to Tiger for some strange reason before I sacrifice my backup. They really did speed up Spotlight quite a bit for finding applications, which is how I use it quite often.
Safari 3 is great, but I’ve been using it for a while now, so I’m already familiar with it. There are a few changes from the beta (such as how new articles are displayed in the RSS reader, and what the inspector looks like).
Haven’t played with XCode or Dashcode yet. XCode is the one I care about the most.
