Waiting for Leopard Book II: The Real Marquee Features
October 18th, 2007All right, with a genuine 316 new features and enhancements in Leopard, you can probably talk all day about the ones that appeal to you. But you only read, most times at any rate, about a handful of sexy features that, while useful in and of themselves, may not be the most important reasons to buy an operating system upgrade for your Mac.
Sure, I do plan on trying Time Machine and comparing it to my existing backup solutions. I’m also curious about Space and how well it performs in relation to other multiple desktop applications that have appeared and disappeared on the Mac over the years.
I’m particularly hopeful about the Finder. Not so much about the spiffier interface, but whether its speed bumps have been eradicated. While it handle multitasking better? If a network share shuts down (such as putting a MacBook to sleep), will the Finder realize the changed condition right away, or present a spinning beachball for several minutes until it figures out what’s going on?
