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What feature of Leopard are you most excited about?

What feature of Leopard are you most excited about?

  • Time Machine

    Votes: 27 28.4%

  • Mail

    Votes: 3 3.2%

  • iChat

    Votes: 4 4.2%

  • Spaces

    Votes: 16 16.8%

  • Dashboard

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Spotlight

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • iCal

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Accessibility

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • 64-bit

    Votes: 5 5.3%

  • Core Animation

    Votes: 22 23.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 13.7%
  • Total voters
    95
  • Poll closed .
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iMacZealot

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Well, which one?

I thought about having the ability to choose more than one, but I want to see your absolute most anticipated feature.

When Tiger came out, I thought that I would use Dashboard the most, but I rarely ever use it. Spotlight is probably the most useful feature I got out of Tiger.

However, not a whole lot in Leopard makes me all too giddy. However, I'll probably end up using the new Mail features the most. I probably wouldn't upgrade to Leopard until I bought a new mac, but I probably will have to if :apple: releases FCS 6 at NAB.

What feature are you most excited about.
 
I actually am really looking forward to Time Machine. I already use Super Duper! all the time, but Time Machine is capable of so much more!

I suppose multiple desktops would be sweet, too.

Oh, and the "Murder by iSight" feature. That's gonna be great!
 
There aren't a whole lot of compelling features in Leopard but if I had to choose it would be Core Animation and 64-Bit.

Time Machine seems wonderful, but it might be like Tiger's FileVault (highly touted, but rarely used) as it might cause more problems than it solves, although ZFS is extremely sexy.

No word on a vectorized UI or a new look, but anything other than brushed metal would be highly welcomed.
 
I heard that Leopard is going to have a feature that locates Osama Bin Laden,thats prolly gonna be pretty sweet.
 
I'll probably find Time Machine a lot more useful than I think... once I save up to buy a large external hard drive. :) Actually I'm mostly looking forward to updates to bundled apps (Safari, Mail, etc.) and maybe an improved Finder......?
 
Core Animation. We may not see it all the time, but I believe the Core technologies are really pushing the platform forward.
 
Spaces.

Not much else excites me about Leopard to be honest. I do full daily back-ups but I suppose Time Machine will be more convenient and flexible.

I'll buy it on release because I'm an Apple whore :p but I really hope there's something insanely great that we haven't seen yet.
 
I'm not really excited about Leopard. Definately not as much as I was about Tiger.

But Core Animation sounds interesting, ecpecially if it really brings GUI performance increase :)
 
Time Machine!

That is actually extremely exiting, combined with a USB2 disk connected via an AirPort Extreme it just seems like the best thing since iTunes... :)

Don't quite know if I'll ever use SuperDuper! again after upgrading... (Though a bootable clone might be a nice supplement, and it would be a shame to toss away a perfectly good licence to a nice application... right...? ;))
 
Core Animation, we'll see LOADS of new apps making use of it, like games etc...
 
I'm a Solaris Sys Admin by trade so I'm pretty stoked to see DTrace and ZFS appearing in OS X.

Also looking forward to seeing Time Machine and Core Animation in action.
 
Spaces, TimeMachine, the make your own widget thing, increased speed. But, I REALLY hope that they have some features that they have not discussed.
 
Leopard

I'd have to say, the one single feature that brings Leopard to
'The Sky's the Limit' potential in terms of GUI is Core Animation:
For a taste of the graphic 3D possibilities, try this screen saver,
Fenêtres Volantes, which seems to utilize Core Animation, or perhaps
an emulation using Core Graphics:

http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/download.html

Time Machine will be taking full advantage of Core Animation, as
will a new advanced Exposé, and perhaps Front Row 2. After someone
showed me the Vista 3D page viewer, I showed him the 3D screensaver,
which completely blew his mind. His remark: "Windows will never catch
up to this...."
 
DMann said:
I'd have to say, the one single feature that brings Leopard to
'The Sky's the Limit' potential in terms of GUI is Core Animation:
For a taste of the graphic 3D possibilities, try this screen saver,
Fenêtres Volantes, which seems to utilize Core Animation, or perhaps
an emulation using Core Graphics:

http://www.objective-cocoa.org/fenetresvolantes/en/download.html

Time Machine will be taking full advantage of Core Animation, as
will a new advanced Exposé, and perhaps Front Row 2. After someone
showed me the Vista 3D page viewer, I showed him the 3D screensaver,
which completely blew his mind. His remark: "Windows will never catch
up to this...."
Click to expand...

What's the new expose? Do tell…

EDIT: Whoa, that screensaver is cool! Did you make it?
 
Core animation here, the core technologies are really advancing the platform and m usre companies will inorporate its abilities very quickly.
 
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