Mac User to Apple in the pre-release period for Leopard - “Meh.”
The reviews are coming in from all over - some people have received their retail upgrade versions already. I’m heading up to the Apple Store @ Legacy Village tonight - It’ll be me, my three kids and Ben & Ashley. As I mentioned in earlier posts I pre-ordered from Amazon.com and so my copy of Leopard is en route so I won’t be making any purchases tonight but maybe we’ll get lucky and win something nice - last time Ben won a PowerBook - yeah, a whole freakin’ computer. At a bare minimum they’ll probably at least be giving away some free iTunes credits. I fly my geek flag high so going to an operating system release party is something that my kids will just have to get used to, perhaps someday they’ll join me in my geekery.
So am I looking forward to tonights events, sure. But Leopard in general? Not so much.
I know with 300 New Features! I ought to be excited about something, right? Sure some of the features seem like they’ll be useful and by the time 10.6 rolls around I’m sure I’ll have found things that I wouldn’t want to give up, but right now I’m pretty happy with Tiger. It’ll be interesting to see what I think of Leopard in the next few months. Many of the podcasts & blogs that I read have said something to the effect that 10.5 is a release that’ll make developers happy - some of the core architecture of the OS will make the next generation of applications much more robust, combine that with the eye candy that stuff like Core Graphics & Core Animation will provide and we’ll see some awesome applications. But that’s in the future.
Sure, the Finder stuff will be a big improvement, Cover Flow looks neat and quick look seems like it’ll be convenient. I’m sure I could go on but… I don’t really want to.
I give you all a full review after I’ve had some time to see Leopard first hand - and if I’m lucky maybe I’ll come home with some free schwag.









