Last night I joined a few 100 people in queuing for Leopard. My first plan was to go to Regent Street but I decided it might be a bit mad out there so I headed to Buewater shopping centre instead.
I am really glad I went there, there were several 100 people in the queue but I got in around 5:15 and were maybe number 15 in the queue so I was in and out in about 10 minutes with Leopard and a swanky tshirt.
I put it on my iMac with no problems at all, re-indexing the spotlight indexes took ages and made my machine a bit slow but once that was done it is all smooth sailing.
So far I have 2 3rd party application problems:
- Parallels let you mount your guest drive as a drive on your mac, for some or other reason this gives a time-out problem. Parallels have committed to a free patch for any issues so Kudos to them
- Little Snitch stopped working well and will require a paid upgrade to version 2. Version 2 is much improved and I think this is a must-have app so will be happy to pay for it, its very inexpensive.
Other than these problems, I’ve been 100% happy with it. So far I don’t think its a total killer upgrade really, the unified look and feel is nice and makes for an all round more polished feel to OS X something that Microsoft have right for years now with their Designed For plans that requires you to comply to their design guides, I think the unified look and feel of Windows apps is invaluable.
The big feature for me is perhaps the new Finder, quick look and coverflow makes dealing with images so much easier, in the past I had to rely on all sorts of 3rd party apps to just browse images without pain, now Finder does it perfectly.
The biggest disappointment is Spaces. I had high hopes for it, from a UI perspective its too hard to pin applications to a given Space. I might have to stick to You Control: desktops. Will give spaces another try though.
