10 Days until Mac OS X 10.5
Apple has posted an extensive list of 300 new features in Leopard. The most interesting things on it that I didn’t know from previous announcements or WWDC 2006:
Automatic Stop and Resume
Never skip a beat. If your Time Machine backup is interrupted — because you took your portable on the road or put your Mac to sleep — Time Machine will simply stop backing up. When you reconnect to your backup drive again, TIme Machine automatically picks up where it left off.AutoFS
Automatically mount and dismount network filesystems on separate threads to improve responsiveness and reliability.Live Partition Resizing in Disk Utility
You may be able to gain disk space without losing data. If a volume is running out of space, simply delete the volume that comes after it on the disk and move the volume’s end point into the freed space.New AirPort Menu
Get a clearer picture of your surrounding Secure networks in the AirPort menu, Secure wireless networks are identified by a lock icon.
Oct 17 2007
2:23 pm
Boo! Software irrevocably tied to hardware! Boo!
Oct 17 2007
7:02 pm
Keep in mind that there’s no way Mac OS X would be what it is if it wasn’t funded by said hardware sales. They’re not pouring all that money into it to sell retail copies.
Oct 17 2007
8:18 pm
The updates to the mail app look interesting too. I’ve been looking for a better mail app (and Office replacement) for years …
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Oct 18 2007
8:30 am
[...] Allen is a Mac Os X Fanboy user. He’s been to the WWDC, he’s running the sexy little Mac box. He posts in his blog about neat features in the upcoming Leopard release. [...]
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Oct 18 2007
10:27 am
[...] – TABS! See also Allen Pike’s list. [↩] Post options » Posted: October 18th, 2007 by Steven Fisher Tags: apple | leopard [...]
Oct 18 2007
10:30 am
Indeed, Curtis, as you’ve realized: If the experience isn’t worth the markup, nobody’s putting a gun to your head to pay it. For some of us, it is. I prefer to use Mac OS X on my four-year-old PowerBook than Ubuntu 7.04 or Windows XP on my dual core PC.
Oct 18 2007
5:05 pm
That’s a good point. When I could only afford a $500 laptop years ago, I bought a used iBook, and for me it was a perfect fit.
Oct 18 2007
7:31 pm
Oh, I’d love to have the latest and greatest for compiling C/C++. But for everything else that I do the PowerBook is just dandy.