Leopard - It’s alive!
- Published October 31st, 2007 in Tech Comment, Apple
So, I’ve just installed it. These are my first impressions:
- Installation went really well. It took about half an hour, although the installer was estimating around 1 hour;
- It’s fast! Booting, starting applications, etc.. is really fast; I have installed Vista and Ubuntu 7.10 on this iMac and OS X is definitely the faster and slicker amongst the three;
- I don’t care about the translucent menu bar or the dock; they’re definitely not something worth mentioning and they’re simply a small aesthetic change. I’d probably keep them as they were in the past, but no big complains;
- Safari 3 is really fast and it takes considerably less memory than Firefox;
- Spotlight is STUPIDLY fast!
- QuickLook is definitely underrated; It’s a really nice add;
- All the applications I use work just fine;
- Stacks are cool for someone than tends to loose some organization over time;
And that’s it. No minor or major glitches. Too soon to catch any pet-peeves but I’ll keep posting.
Quicklook does look neat. Vista has a similar feature with it’s larger icon views, but it is limited to a very small number of builtin filetypes making it all but useless. How wide is the Quicklook support?
QuickLook works everywhere. Even on TimeMachine when you’re looking at ancient versions of a folder.
Sorry, I worded that poorly… I meant how good is the filetype support for Quicklook? Does it work on basically everything? Vista’s equivalent is limited to basic images and such. It sounds like Apple put enough effort into it that it doesn’t suck in that regard.
phantomdata,
It works with all Office files. For instance, you can swap Word pages of your document. It’s really great.
Oh nice. Any chance that we can get some screenshots of that out of you? I’m actually interested in seeing some real screenshots of the whole system anyway… maybe a new post?