Leopard Reviews

[hawki18]

That I gotta counter. My MacBook ain't 64bit, and 64bit has basically got _NOTHING_ to do with speed, rather with RAM bandwidth, and since most Macs *I know of* don't have much more than 4 GB of RAM, it doesn't matter _zero_.

When they did the demo during key note on fix the graphic the 64 bit machine was over twice as fast as the dual core machine so I say it make a differance.

[Timotheos]

It seems im the only one that thinks cover flow makes more sense in the finder than in iTunes. Yes you flip through the CD's. records etc. in your collection/store but on a computer it doesnt really help you find the songs or album you want to listen to. Infact I find it awfully hard to find the right album or artist.

I do like how you can flick through the different pages of a document (if you can or could do this in normal view then IMO it cancells out the need for cover flow). It would be good if you could select a folder then quickly flick through different files in the folder in the same way you can do it with pages in a document. It would help when you have alot of files with only a couple of files in each.

[Qion]

CoverFlow, in my honest opinion, is only good as a graphical representation of a search. I don't go searching through my 50GB of music and videos by sliding my fingers across a trackpad; I do a search within iTunes and watch my album appear. With the amount of files I work with daily, CoverFlow makes no sense. I could never track file names as quickly as I can flip through them graphically, and besides that, I don't think any of my computers could read a hundred or so Ai files w/ a preview in under a minute of flipping. They would just show up as orange icons with a file name under them, completely defeating the purpose of the CoverFlow implementation.

[fryke]

Originally Posted by hawki18

When they did the demo during key note on fix the graphic the 64 bit machine was over twice as fast as the dual core machine so I say it make a differance.

They actually did that test on the _same_ machine, one time with 32bit, one time with 64bit code. They loaded an image that was larger than what 32bit code can hold in RAM at the same time. Basically, they simply showed the _one_ specific case where 64bit makes sense at all.

On a MacBook, you can *NOT* put as much RAM in the machine. Not even on a MacBook Pro. So while a MacBook and MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo can run 64bit code, it doesn't give you much of a speed difference. I'd go as far as to say none at all.

It _does_ make a difference if you're

1.) using a Mac with more than 4 GB of memory
2.) working with files that are larger than 4 GB in size
3.) in 64bit clean applications.

But to say that "Leopard doesn't run well on 32bit machines", which you basically did, is simply not correct. At all.

[ApeintheShell]

The Platinum theme looked great compared to Windows 98-2000 but its time has past. I enjoyed the different themes that were introduced from Mac OS X 10.0 thru Mac OS X 10.4 and the new look in Mac OS X 10.5. I think Apple has transitioned to this unified look because of the highly critical user base. Professionals will salivate over this grayish interface, with the graphite buttons, and that gray desktop that came with all Macs in the 1990s.
The next generation of the user interface is simple and dark. That's right, you know it, I am talking about Front Row, Time Machine, and Dashboard.

p.s. This is not a review and please don't quote me on this.

[Rhisiart]

I bet you still can't lock the dock without a palaver.

[mw84]

Does anyone know if the theme shown here http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/ in the image with the grass desktop background is going to be how Leopard actually looks? I really don't like the tapered dock, REALLY. Also not that sure about the semi transparent menu bar.. Please tell me this is jut a mock up!

EDIT: Just spotted those little blue dots below launched apps aswell. Once more, please tell me!

[fryke]

It certainly _is_ how things look in the current beta build. But that doesn't mean it's how it'll look at release time. But I'm not sure that's what they'll be working on 'til October.