In a bit more than two days, the wait is over. At least for most of us. Leopard will be in the shelves, we will have the whole weekend to play around with what we have been waiting for so long. For some guy out there, the wait is already over, and he has posted his experience with the Golden Master Build 9A581, which somehow, some way, made its way outside of Apple’s labs. It may be noted that Apple still has no intention of giving the final build to anyone including developers, before it made its way into the shelves.
QuickLook lets you preview files, documents, photos, even movies, without opening its designated application
This user describes that the update to about 30 minutes to complete, and has posted his first impressions of Apple’s latest and greatest:
- All my applications and settings were retained
- Time Machine asked me on the first time I started in leopard, which of my five external Hard Drives should be used for backups. I didn’t have to configure anything else
- When I started Mail for the first time, it had to upgrade the mail database. After that, Mail is blazing fast!
- I told Mail to import my RSS Feeds from Safari but that didn’t work!
- Reading RSS in Mail is nice to have
- Tasks in Mail appear even if completed. That might be a bit distracting for some people
- Mail is FAST! Seeing is believing!
- Finder: Well, the first time it ran, it hanged! After killing the process, I was amazed by the speed and coverflow!
- Quick View: COOL – GREAT FEATURE
- Safari is blazing fast!
- .mac has the option to synchronize settings and Dock items
- Stacks: I am not impressed. I like the downloads stack though. I had to manually change the path in Mail and Safari though!
- Spaces: I created 4 Spaces and I find it a very cool feature, especially the live ala expose preview
- Applications start instantly, especially iLife and iWork!
- iCal is much better. There is an inline editor and an event drop box now
- Contacts is more or less the same
- iTunes seems much faster than before
Leopard arrives Friday, 6.00 PM, in retail stores worldwide.
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