“In Leopard, the newest version of Apple’s OS X operating system, the company has mentioned 300 or so new features. But I’m a Mac developer and user, and I’ve been using it from the inside. So what’s really there?” Fraser Speirs asks for The Guardian Unlimited.
Speirs describes some of Leopard’s notable new features and writes, “That’s the thing about Leopard: it brings many small enhancements, and while you may not be immediately struck by the importance of some of the features, this version of OS X adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Combine what Apple has already done with what third party developers will do in their Leopard applications, and this is going to be a very solid platform for the future.”
“Leopard is going to be a great release. In my opinion, Time Machine is going to be a great stealth hit. It won’t change your life on the day you install it, but milllions of users will turn it on, forget it and one day be very grateful that it has been sitting in the background keeping their files safe all the while,” Speirs reports.
“There are a ton of things built in to Leopard for programmers to play with; Core Animation is just the start. You won’t notice these improvements today, but in the long run, you’ll start to see great things happening on your Leopard-running Mac,” Speirs reports.
Full review here.
I wouldn’t know the value of Core Animation until I saw FrontRow, PhotoBooth and AppleTV.
The value is in how these features are used by developers. Soon these features we see in iLife, iWork and Leopard will appear in all applications and we’ll wonder how we did without them.
I ordered my Leopard! Gimme something to install, man!
Ohhhhh, I think the Dock is slowwww…..
Name that (bastardized) song, people!!!
installing it right now (I’m writing this on my iPod touch) and I got a free t-shirt and whilst in the queue a guy showed me all the amazing apps on his hacked iPod touch. All I can say is WOW!
@ Cubert
Hot For Teacher… or in this case.. Leopard
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Gimme a bottle of anything… and a Leopard Install disc… to go!
FedEx sucks! where is my Leo?
by 10:30am my ars
My Leopard is sitting at home, delivered by FedEx in the boonies by 11 am-ish. Sitting at work reading the news on a PC sucks.
MW: Hot for Leopard, yeah!
Willie G,
You are the grand prize winner with a bonus for the additional play on the song’s lyrics. You win the spandex pants that David Lee Roth wore in the video for “Panama”, as well as the sunglasses and pimp hat he wore in the “Hot for Teacher” video. Both have been adequately fumigated, sterilized, and soaked in a penicillin solution for 2 weeks. Unfortunately the 8-ball found in the spandex pants has mysteriously disappeared. Please your local sketch hanging out in club parking lots for a replacement.
C3
Sorry. “Please SEE you local sketch hanging out in club parking lots for a replacement.”
P.S. The pants are in the mail!
It is Friday at 3:42 in the afternoon. Leopard is to launch on 6:00. I am writing this using Mac OSX Leopard 10.5 installed on my IMAC as of 3:00 pm.
Hmmm. I wonder if the writer has used the word “great” enough.
Got my cat by 10:30…FedEx did the job….and Leoparrd is running great on my Powerbook!
Posting this on Leopard. woohoo. Spotlight is still indexing. It’s schweet so far dudes!
I wouldn’t know the value of Core Animation until I saw FrontRow, PhotoBooth and AppleTV.
The value is in how these features are used by developers.
Absolutely the value is in how it’s implemented. Apple made the mistake of touring a developer’s tool as a user feature once already. …
Apple is about cool stuff that just works. MS, among numerous other evils, is about mismanaged geek tech (Direct this, Active these, .Net those, Live that) which makes the user ask “So what’s in it for me?”.
I pre-ordered mine but I just realized I have less than 6 GB free on my old iBook. Darn puny little 60 gig hard drive. Gonna have to dump some stuff I guess. Or put in a new 120 GB.
Scripting Bridge. File Event Notifications. Xcode 3 with a new Interface Builder and Objective-C 2.0. My life just got a whole lot busier from all the work I can get to now that Leopard has finally been released.
“…a guy showed me all the amazing apps on his hacked iPod touch”
Soon to be iPod brick.