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Some of Leopard's 300+ New Features

Foxglove9 said:
For anyone who has tested Leopard. Can the new dock still be moved to the left or right side of the screen. I always have mine on the right side, as I can't stand it on the bottom.
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Yes the dock can be moved to left or right side, in addition to the bottom.

That's public info. Just read up on the Leopard dock article on AppleInsider
 
from what i see there is nothing in leopard that i need. i do my backups myself, don't need/like spaces). so i will wait with my upgrade for a (long) while.

the only thing that seems to be improved is integration with .mac. i will see if they eventually make .mac into what i want and upgrade then.

i think about web based ical, syncing every setting on you mac so that you have identical desktops (dock, windows, shortcuts, screen saver, stickies, widgets) when you go to your second mac.
 
The ones Im most loking forward to:

Grammar Check - very useful for some of us round here :rolleyes:
TextEdit: OpenDocument and Word 2007 Formats - at long last!
Scroll Non-Active Windows - at long last!
Printer Drivers via Software Update - saves a bunch of time and leads way to 3rd party app updates :)
.Mac Sync for System Preferences - just plain cool
Wikipedia in Dictionary - and makes sense seeing how ol' Wiki has exploded lately
 
I would love to see come nice compatibility of the new OS with programs from 10.4, because it is a bitch when you upgrade your OS and your key programs dont work
 
nebben123 said:
You've always been able to scroll non-active windows, even in Mac OS 9 (and maybe even before that). Just hold down the CMD key, and click on the scroll bar of an inactive window. You can scroll it without making it the front window (you can also move the window around, or close it, etc).

Why does this guy apparently think this is "new" in Leopard?

Ben

[edit: Looks like Fotek2001 beat me to it. GMTA.]
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that's so 90's. why would i want to click a button AND click a scroll bar when all i have to do is hover over the window (anywhere in the window) and move my scroll whell?
 
No more excuses for the bad grammar on this forum, then?

Scrolling non-active windows is freakin' awesome. I'll use that every day.
 
rented mule said:
Good...I don't think I ever want to see another Java app on Mac. If we can get the Java developers to stay away from Mac, it's an OS X feature that gets my blessing. :D
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I don't know if I have ever seen a java app that I wanted to run, but there have been a few that I had to run and they were gawd awful.

A little factoid: I bought my first Sun workstation right after Sun announced that it was going to make OpenStep the center of its development effort. Sun even bought Lighthouse, one of the leading OpenStep developers with a great suite of NeXTSTEP apps. Then upper management discovered Java and put all their effort behind that and dropped OpenStep.

Good to see Sun made the right choice. :rolleyes:
 
andiwm2003 said:
from what i see there is nothing in leopard that i need. i do my backups myself, don't need/like spaces). so i will wait with my upgrade for a (long) while.

the only thing that seems to be improved is integration with .mac. i will see if they eventually make .mac into what i want and upgrade then.

i think about web based ical, syncing every setting on you mac so that you have identical desktops (dock, windows, shortcuts, screen saver, stickies, widgets) when you go to your second mac.
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yeah, but what you're not hearing about is the performance gain. Applications open quicker, startup times are quick, everything just seems faster, even on non 64 bit processors. And stacks are really super useful, in decreases the need to often open a finder window...just click on a stack in the dock.

tiger almost seems like an archaic OS now (opinion).
 
Network Scanning Support

This is a great feature in leopard.

Network Scanning Support
Take advantage of new Bonjour-based network scanners, Leopard leads the way with the technology required to allow scanning over a network.
 
I really like the Guest account feature. I had to make another account for that very purpose its nice to have it done by itself
 
mdntcallr said:
I would love to see come nice compatibility of the new OS with programs from 10.4, because it is a bitch when you upgrade your OS and your key programs dont work
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+1

If all programs are compatible right from the start, we have a winner. Too many people would be pissed off if programs they paid don't work. No doubt the major ones will though.
 
Anyone know how ...

... i should go about buying my new iMac with Leopard ? Sorry but i'm a tad confused by my first mac buying experience. I'm planning on buying a 24" 2.4GHz iMac but would like to up the RAM and harddrive, if i go into an Apple store on the 27th to buy this - can i have it configured with the extra RAM and memory there and then in the store to take away that day, or do i need to pre-order it or something ? Also if i decided it was easier or faster to buy what i want on-line do i need to wait until the 26th to make sure it's installed with Leopard ?

thanks for any words of wisdom you can offer.
 
xtine said:
... i should go about buying my new iMac with Leopard ? Sorry but i'm a tad confused by my first mac buying experience. I'm planning on buying a 24" 2.4GHz iMac but would like to up the RAM and harddrive, if i go into an Apple store on the 27th to buy this - can i have it configured with the extra RAM and memory there and then in the store to take away that day, or do i need to pre-order it or something ? Also if i decided it was easier or faster to buy what i want on-line do i need to wait until the 26th to make sure it's installed with Leopard ?

thanks for any words of wisdom you can offer.
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there is no guarantee that your machine will have Leopard on it. I don't think they do hard drive upgrades in the store, only ram.
 
evansls said:
This is a great feature in leopard.

Network Scanning Support
Take advantage of new Bonjour-based network scanners, Leopard leads the way with the technology required to allow scanning over a network.
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For laptop users, this will be a great feature in theory. If you have say an Airport Extreme router, you can connect your external HD, printer, and scanner into it. Everything could then be done via wireless, no more worrying about plugging in cables.

Of course, how long will it take for scanners to support bonjour? And of course, the magic question, for how much?
 
vassillios said:
there is no guarantee that your machine will have Leopard on it. I don't think they do hard drive upgrades in the store, only ram.
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Thanks for that info Vassillios, i'm thinking ordering it on-line might be a whole lot easier. Cheers.
 
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