Computerworld’s Michael DeAgonia, Ryan Faas, Ken Mingis and Seth Weintraub have used Apple’s new Mac OS X Leopard for a week and made a list of hits and misses:
Misses:
• Time Machine preferences a “tad confusing”
• Dock changes its look depending on placement
• Stacks inconsistent at times and lack hierarchical navigation capabilities
• Mail’s main Inbox issue
• Active Directory not completely reliable so far
• Finder’s Cover Flow display sizing
• iPhone integration could be much better
• Older Macs unsupported
Hits:
• TIme Machine makes backup painless and reliable
• Stacks is both useful and visually impressive
• Front Row, a hit from Day One, just gets better
• Quick Look is quite the timesaver
• Data detectors a little-touted feature that you’ll be using all the time
• Screen Sharing is done very well in Leopard
• NSOperation allows developers to optimize their code to automatically scale to take advantage of multiple processors
• Core Animation opens a lot of exciting possibilities for both users and developers
• Development environment will soon bring us a whole new level of applications
Full article here.