Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1
OK, go get a cup of coffee and a donut and sit down and enjoy. The Ars Technica review is so very thorough and enjoyable to read. I only wish I had time to create that kind of detail in a posting…
And the author is dead-on about Time Machine being the best thing in Leopard. I had crafted my own script based rsync hard-link backup program a few years ago that kept me happy, but Time Machine is just beautiful in its simplicity. No cron jobs required.
I don’t sweat the UI details as much as this author, either, as I am more or less fine with most of them. What I crave are things that speed me up, and this almost always has to do with findability and keyboard shortcuts, not pretty little buttons or proper scaling of images, etc., which I like, but don’t care that much about. Decent looking graphics are a commodity for O/S (even many Linux machines deliver on this.) I want to focus on my work and not worry about the details. Going to Apple in 1999 from a PC was the first revolution for me in that regards, and OS X was a major evolution of that principal. Leopard furthers the trend. Gone are the days of futzing with crappy Windows settings that are different in every application. Command-, on the keyboard and up pops my applications preference menu. Change Settings. Done. No prompts to save, etc. Just do what makes sense, but let me have the power to override it if I need to (like changing the User’s home directory).
Window’s constant “Are you sure you want to do that” dialogs make me think the whole O/S was designed by lawyers and safety experts instead of real people wanting to get work done.
Speaking of that, back to it.
