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Features you like about leopard

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hotshotharry

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The first thing i noticed about leopard was how fast it resumed from sleep this morning. And i didnt have to wait the 15 seconds it usually takes to connect to the network, it was nearly instantaneous!! :) woohoo :)
 
Safari 3 is way better than Safari 3 on Tiger. It's much quicker and more stable.
Spaces are great, my desktops are a lot less cluttered now.
Time Machine works really really well.
Finder is usable now. Machines with shares are auto discovered. Autofs stops my system from grinding to a halt when shares aren't available.
 
I love spaces, it really suits how i work on my mac,

the fact that i can use the old :apple:+tab to shift from app to app and it switches the space i am in is amazing!!!

safari 3.0 is also great!

its all good!
 
moutian said:
iCal displays the right date on the dock.
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That's the killer feature right there! :D

Quicklook and cover flow.

The new Alex voice - use text to speach when editing and proofing documents as an invaluable tool. This new voice is excelent for that.

Spaces - looks like I'll be using this alot more than I had anticipated (on my MacBook at least). Kind of like I didn't think I'd use Spotlight in Tiger, but that ended up being one of the most useful features for my workflow. I can even jump to another "Space" from within a full screen Parallels VM (on those few occasions that I have to fire up an old copy of W2K to run a couple of legacy apps).

The real question is - Aqua or Graphite??? I've swiched to Graphite. It just fits more with the new UI.

Hmmm... Perhaps time for a poll? :D
 
Blue tooth DUN works very nicely now! (so far)

No more 10 second wait to access the airport icon/settings

safari works great now

cpu usage levels seem extremely low as compared to before!!! yay longer battery life ! ?
 
No side borders in Quicktime, Transparent menubar looks really good with my background.

Scrolling background windows.
 
Well, I'm happy that I'm finally getting my money's worth out of my 100Mbps internet connection!



I've never seen speeds like this, even on a heavily tweaked XP machine - but since installing Leopard, I've been getting consistently fast speeds. Very impressive!
 
Leopard is truly AMAZING!! I love everything about it!.... One thing i was surprised about also is that ical displays the right date..:apple::apple:
 
On the positive side:
Safari 3
Time Machine

On the negative side:
Still no RESOLUTION INDEPENDENCE
 
The main thing I love, is that it is SOOOO much faster than Tiger!!!!! My processor would run a little hot in Tiger whenever I'd watch a video on youtube or the like or when I had a few programs open. Haven't heard my fan once!

They truly did one heck of a job on this!!!
F Vista!
 
mavis said:
Well, I'm happy that I'm finally getting my money's worth out of my 100Mbps internet connection!



I've never seen speeds like this, even on a heavily tweaked XP machine - but since installing Leopard, I've been getting consistently fast speeds. Very impressive!
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HOLY !!!! SH!!!!!!!!T
 
Wow the cpu load is almost always perfectly balanced !! and hardly moves out of the bottom box (floating cpu monitor)

And mail setup allows you to cancel server detection without cancelling the whole account setup!!!

I am liking this more and more.

It seems all the improvements are where you cant see them right away ! :)
 
I also really like that ical shows the correct date. Overall it seems faster so that is good! Cover flow for files is very nice.
 
At first I was a little disappointed by Leopard, but the more I use it the more I realize how terrible going back to Tiger would be. Here's my two cents:

- Spaces will be invaluable
- Quicklook is a huge time-saver when you just want to know what a document is
- Stacks really help organize the dock and make it less cluttered for me
- The help menu search is amazingly useful if you ever use help
- Common tasks are sped up, like spotlight's results and Safari's page rendering
- Time Machine is going to save my ass someday
- Time on top of screen saver is great
- The whole OS looks more professional...from the folders to the menus...the last remnants of aqua are dying out

I do have a couple drawbacks I've noticed:
- Startup takes significantly longer (2x as long)
- The menu bar is cool looking but annoying in use (especially with M$ Office toolbars docked underneath)
- Mighty Mouse was being ornery after the update...but it's been working OK for a few hours now

I should really do some work instead of play with Leopard....oh well.
 
I am very happy with Leopard overall.

I have dumped Firefox and took a leap of faith for this ever-snappy safari people talk about so much. I like it a lot, despite some things safari doesnt have that FF does (open application after downloading associated filetype, not having to hold down command to open a link in a tab are just two features i miss right now)
And i miss my sidebar in iCal that, i felt, reduces extra mouse clickings.

But man overall i love it and was well worth every penny!!!
 
mavis said:
Well, I'm happy that I'm finally getting my money's worth out of my 100Mbps internet connection!



I've never seen speeds like this, even on a heavily tweaked XP machine - but since installing Leopard, I've been getting consistently fast speeds. Very impressive!
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I think I'm moving to Japan :eek:


After accidentally deleting one of my accounts in Cha-Ching last night (meant to delete a transaction and hit the wrong button), I'd have to say Time Machine is my favorite feature. I had everything restored in 30 seconds. I'd be screwed if I were in Tiger.
 
I really like Leopard a lot. So far all of the hyped features seem to live up to their hype for me. The main complaint I seem to hear is about how stacks and the dock in general handle nested folders. I didn't have a single folder in my dock in Tiger, so I don't really know what I am missing out on.

One super small detail that I think is just great, is that one of the byproducts of having a preview icon instead of a normal icon for pictures and videos and stuff is that when you open a folder of music files, their icon is now the album art. I just think that was some sweet attention to detail that hasn't been mentioned yet. See picture:
 

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illicium said:
One super small detail that I think is just great, is that one of the byproducts of having a preview icon instead of a normal icon for pictures and videos and stuff is that when you open a folder of music files, their icon is now the album art. I just think that was some sweet attention to detail that hasn't been mentioned yet. See picture:
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That is brilliant, not that i ever look at the files.
 
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