Mac OSX Leopard
I got a copy of the new mac os yesterday from the nice people at GBM in Manchester. Of course I installed it as soon as I got home. I am a marketers dream, I really am. I had no problems after the install, everything seemed to work fine. All my favourite web authoring applications (TextMate, CSS Edit and Transmit) updated straight away. The only problem I had was the install knocked out my Keychain items. I tried to revert them to older versions using Backup, but to no avail.
I especially like the Spaces application as it really helps me keep a handle on the 100 windows I invariably leave open. The look and feel is an improvement too. Everything is very ITunes-ish, perhaps in a move to advertise the computer to the iPod masses. Or perhaps just to standardise the product line. There is a whole lot of gradients and shine, but it seems a little more muted than the excess use of Fisher Price – like icons of the earlier versions of X.
I guess I’d give it 4/5. A nice update, but not a completely stunning new operating system. Is £85 too much? Not sure, look at how much Vista is. And there’s a strange update. I prefer XP.
I became totally obsessed with Spaces for a short while; and then when I came to reinstall my Mac I found, several weeks later, that I hadn’t re-enabled Spaces. Too much mental effort to maintain awareness of the location of each window? I’m still fairly happy without it.