Well, it has been a long while since I posted to my blog. I just installed OS X Leopard on my MacBook Pro. Wow!!!! Up until a week ago I had been mostly just Windoze and Linux. I have an old G4 PowerMac that is pretty slow. I finally got sick of Vista and went out and got a new MacBook. I liked Tiger -- it was certainly an improvement over Vista. But Leopard is terrific. The upgrade was pretty painless -- stick the DVD in, click on upgrade and pretty much walk away after selecting a few options.
Probably the two biggest improvements in Leopard are Spaces -- a multiple desktop tool that lets you have any number of desktops running in the background. This has been standard on Linux systems for years and has finally made its way onto the Mac. The other really nice feature are the improvements to the dock. While it seems minor, being able to have folders on the doc, such as Applications and Documents, and click on them and have them pop open before you on the screen, sort of like the Start Menu in Windoze (the one feature that I missed from Windoze). Definitely a nice touch. I haven't played with Time Machine yet -- that's next. I suspect that it may be a bit of a resource hog (based on my experience with things like Norton Ghost on a PC). Time will tell.
Probably the two biggest improvements in Leopard are Spaces -- a multiple desktop tool that lets you have any number of desktops running in the background. This has been standard on Linux systems for years and has finally made its way onto the Mac. The other really nice feature are the improvements to the dock. While it seems minor, being able to have folders on the doc, such as Applications and Documents, and click on them and have them pop open before you on the screen, sort of like the Start Menu in Windoze (the one feature that I missed from Windoze). Definitely a nice touch. I haven't played with Time Machine yet -- that's next. I suspect that it may be a bit of a resource hog (based on my experience with things like Norton Ghost on a PC). Time will tell.
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