Boy have I been waiting to get my hands on Apple Mac OS X Leopard since I first saw it previewed at WWDC almost two years ago. I’ve waited so long that it was almost underwhelming once I installed it but didn’t take long to get excited about looking into the new features.

The new features are pretty subtle as OS X Tiger was a great OS as it was but the new features in Leopard make it that much nicer. I like the look of the doc icons which reflect off the reflective surface they sit on. This alone made me switch from hiding to dock to showing the dock.

I really like the stack icon which lets you dump files you keep dumping onto your desktop into so you keep your desktop nice and tidy. iChat with the background video effects is really cool and means you can set it up with a custom or default video background loop and don’t have to worry about the mess you might have lurking behind you whilst your talking with friends and colleagues.

There are only a few minor issues that I have noticed running Leopard. I have two iMacs, one being a 2nd generation G5 PowerPC processor which is about 3 years old and the other is a the newest iMac Intel Core2 Duo. The G5 loaded Leopard just as seamlessly as the Intel Mac however some of the features on the PowerPC G5 don’t work.

For example the background effects for iChat aren’t available on the G5. I thought I might have got the latest version of iLife with the Leopard install but this is not the case. I have a MySQL database installed on the system and found that it cannot be started from the system preference panel so I needed to start it up from the terminal window. Also on the G5 PowerPC I couldn’t get the new feature quick look to work but I haven’t really played with that much so maybe I just need to figure out why it’s not working.

Overall though, Mac OS X Leopard is a sweet operating system and if your still using Microsoft windows, now is a good time to jump ship and enjoy the switch to Apples best operating system yet.

Tags: apple, mac

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