Upgraded to Leopard - Meh.
I shrug. Leopard appears to have redesigned the Finder and put some extra polish on the Apple communication applications. Notable differences for the way I work with OS X:
- There is a huge marketing push to get the user to sign up for .Mac. This push manifests in the form of annoyance-ware. Two sales offers at first boot, then a default “.Mac sync” icon in the top toolbar. Even after removed, .Mac sync will pop up unsolicited messages about my current “sync state”, warning me that since I’m not using .Mac the sync state is in terrible flux.
- Multiple desktops. Word up.
- Plaxo’s OS X “click to connect” software does not yet work for Apple Mail.
- Apple Mail can remember the trust settings for a self-signed SSL certficate. Finally!
- Quicksilver works without an upgrade.
- Parallels 2.5 works after an upgrade.
- Time Machine attempted to automatically enable itself after a security update. I have no interest in ever enabling this feature.
- Software update does not inform the user of installation details by default. This is now operating on the same level as Windows XP. Software update also will not let the user interact with the computer during an update, whereas previously updates could be installed while continuing to work. This may have been limited to the core security update that applied to my installation DVD. I’ll see in time.
So there it is. Leopard. A new version of GCC, some graphic design polish, few more configuration options and some sales pitches for an Apple product that isn’t OS X.