Hello Tomorrow: The 300+ new features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

(01) writes: "I'm still a little confused as why Spaces still looks like an app. I would think that it would be integrated like Expose....perhaps I'm way off the mark, any thoughts?"

I think it would be better to have all the integrated stuff (Expose, Dashboard, Spaces etc) run as an application so you can easily quit them if you so desire (to free up memory and CPU cycles or maybe they just don't contribute to your workflow). I would like to see Finder being easily quit as well (leaving just the essential filesystem commands e.g. can still open files and folders) so that other apps like Path Finder can be used instead.

I can't understand the point of having icons in the dock for those integrated stuff if they cannot be quitted. They might as well be in the apple menu or at least be separated from the other apps on the dock.

Okay.... I'm confused. At first it looked like Desktop Share was gone. (No mention of it anywhere in iChat) Then after some research it looked like it was moved to part of finder. But now, after watching the Keynote, the sharing there looks to be only files sharing. If they stripped Desktop Share I will be very sad :( Any thoughts?

Concerning the price of Leopard, on Saturday the sales person at the Apple store mentioned Leopard may be only $79. I'll buy at both, 79 OR 129!!!

the new finder looks pretty sweet, it may take me a bit to wrap my head around the iTunes interface for everything though. I'm still a little confused as why Spaces still looks like an app. I would think that it would be integrated like Expose....perhaps I'm way off the mark, any thoughts?

JH,
Let's look at this point by point. Vista is on desktops now? Sure is, but not ones more than a couple of years old. So it's OK for MS to ditch users on older machines, but if Apple danes to suggest that Leopard won't run OK on your iBook (which hasn't even been determined yet) they're jerks? hmmm?

As far as worrying about "our OS". Nobody is. We're sure it's gonna be fine. However, Vista is in rough shape, and needs all the worrying it can get.

"Investors are losing confidence in Apple's ability to do anything but bash Microsoft" Really? I think that the stock hit a bump because Steve didn't have a whizbang piece of hardware to intro, and they didn't put out an iPhone SDK. It's gonna bounce back as the momentum builds towards the iPhone launch. And really I think that it was best to not intro any new hardware so they don't dilute iPhone-mania.

As far as you reading the blog, I think the question is more of a "Why read this, and get your blood pressure up?" You obviously have a bone to pick with Apple. You're certainly no "realist" because if you were you wouldn't be defending MS. How's that Zune working out BTW?

$129 is a bit of cash, and I can see that. I don't know how old your iBook is, but I think it's probably pretty old since you sound like you upgraded to Tiger as well. Might be time to save those pennies your stashing for Vista Ultimate Black Box Uber Edition, and put them toward a Macbook. (You being such an Apple User, and all) Just because you can't get Leopard running on your TAM doesn't mean it's no good.

The people who went to the keynote got betas right? Then its not going to be too long before someone posts the beta on those usual sites if anyone is brave enough to try it...

Why am I reading the blog? I've been an apple user for nearly the full time Apple's been out.

But I'm not the "fanboy" type anymore.. I left that behind me in the 90s. Now I'm more of a "realist" when it comes to the entire computer industry.

And.. the reality is, the feature set for me just does not justify $129. It's not enough to make me switch from Tiger.

That, and the fact that I doubt my Ibook can run with this .. it has some major issues with Tiger as it stands.

re the vista - i don't think by trounced the poster meant sales wise...

some lots of interesting features - i just realised that the icon view thumbnails any sort of media file including docs and movie clips - w00t for that. Seems like xls files are previewed too!

i'm curious to c the spec requirements. Not sure bout the translucent menu bar but the coverflow feature's a nice feature. Now hope they allow more meta tag filters in column view. Waitin for screenshots to be posted for the more mundane stuff like setting up the shares (does it work with smb shares... does the finder hang if an AFP share is disconnected?).

As mentioned elsewhere my 2 major grievances left are the open / save dialogues and printer set up / print dialogues....

Hold on,

Since Leopard is 64-bit, does this mean it won't work on my 32-bit Core Duo?

Also,

"Worry about your own OS.. not other people's. Last time Apple made fun of Vista, it was talking about how it'd be released before Vista." - jh

I think Apple bashed MS for how long it took for Vista came out since their last release. Apple can wait until next year and it still would have a better turnaround timeframe w/ Leopard from Tiger than Vista from XP.

Plus why are you even reading this blog? Sounds like someone is more curious about Leopard than they would let others believe.