Mac OS X - Leopard’s improvements
Yes indeed, I’m an Apple fanboy. And I know at least one other reader of this shiny new blog is an Apple fanboy too. So this post is probably not that much news to that particular reader (or any other Mac-addict!).
Today, Apple finally announced Mac OS X version 10.5 aka Leopard, will be released on Friday 26th of October.
The best looking and most stable (with it’s roots in FreeBSD) of commercial OS-es will bring a whole lot of improvements and new features. A whole lot? Yes, more than 300. Threehundred-and-sixteen to be precise. Now that’s what I call a lot!. M$ Vista, eat your heart out!
A look at that huge list reveals Boot Camp and Front Row are now included by default; tabbed windows in Terminal (goodbye iTerm?); Spaces, goodbye VirtueDesktops…; EXIF Color Space Support - Joffie should be delighted. I could go on and on for more bytes on this space. Still no mentioning of ZFS as default file-system however…
I’m not sure whether Leopard will run smoothly on my iBook G4, that has a 1.2GHz PowerPC and 768MB of RAM under the hood (though it qualifies to the requirements), but all the features and especially the inclusion of Boot Camp makes me think twice before upgrading to a new PC or a Macbook Pro! It sure makes playing QW:ET, either in Windows or Mac OS X possible.
In the meantime (for the next 8 to 9 days at least) I’ve discovered a site with lots of useful tweaks to improve your current experience of Mac OS X that will keep you busy for at least a couple of hours, whether using Tiger or Jaguar. Worth a look too!