Def Leopard

October 27th, 2007Blog0 comments

So I installed Leopard on my machines. I’m a frequent early adopter. El Jobso comes out with something, I’m there in line.

Speaking of which, I got a free t-shirt.

A word of caution to potential upgraders: BACK UP YOUR STUFF. The upgrade went flawlessly on my laptop, but on my desktop it nerfed my hard drive. If I hadn’t backed up my stuff beforehand, all my precious pictures, iTunes music, and Fraggle Rock fan fiction would have been annihilated.

As it went, Leopard demanded that I zap and reformat my HD for no apparent reason. After doing so the installer went on its merry way. I had to re-install my apps and recopy all my stuff onto my machine, but the speed increase is worth it. Also it makes it easier to organize my pics of Spock visually (using the new cover flow file viewing feature) — now I have folders for: A) Single eyebrow raised, B) Hand sign only, C) Both.

Spaces (the virtual desktop thing) is really great. You know how my screen is often cluttered with twenty applications open at once? Now I can have four screens each with five applications on it. You can also have “The Boss Screen” to make your wife think that you’re busily working on your home budget while you play Civilization IV.

All in all an extremely worthy upgrade. The Finder and Safari feel much faster. Time Machine is very useful (though requires an external hard drive). It all makes me wonder what’s up for Mac OS 10.6.