[L-Day] All Leopard. All Night. First impressions.
So the update finally completed on my good ol’ iMac G5. It took just about an hour, but this is okay considering the amount of files and stuff. Right after the installation it detected my virgin USB drive, and asked me if I wanted to use it for Time Machine. I said ‘yes’. Time Machine activated itself (Flux Capacitor: online!) and started to backup, which it currently still does. And by the looks of it, it’s going to take a good while longer. Try to backup over 80 GB with USB and you know what I’m talking about.
Anyways, here are the very first things I have noticed, in screenshots, and explanations.
The Time Machine part of System Preferences showing, coming up after confirming to use the external drive for backup. There’s only one super-big switch, and that’s all you con configure for Time Machine: The On/Off Switch. Sheer brilliant. Set it, then forget it.
The Build is 9A581, the Golden Master build we have been waiting for. Apart from that, the About This Mac window has not changed at all. Which is good. Sometimes, you just have to keep things the way they are. This is one of those things.
There are always these features that are updated, and Apple does not talk about it because they just take them for granted. If you add the count of these little things to the 317 new features, then you probably end up with over 500 new features or so. When the install completes, the Spotlight magnifying glass has an indicator flashing, telling you something is happening. When you open Spotlight, this is what it looks like. You cannot search until indexing is complete. Which, admittedly, makes sense.
The Finder Preferences have changed. This is the thing for the sidebar. You can set a lot of things, which searches, which devices. It’s incredibly easy, and just plain simple. I really start to like it.
Safari’s new Webclip is now available. Create widgets out of anything you want to know the latest of in an instant. Safari is now versioned as 3.0.4, and it does no longer say it is a Beta release. Maybe Apple will silently roll out an update for Safari. Who knows.
The network settings screen. It is now also accessible via Safari, which is kinda nice. What you see is a slide down window specific for the current active part. The normal part of the window shines through and blurs in the background. Pretty amazing. Amongst the new settings now also is WINS. Just cool.
The new Sharing screen. Not much settings in here anymore. Only one page, clean, and easy. Set what you want. Boom. The original Firewall settings however can be found in Security of System Preferences. So they haven’t disappeared, just moved.
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Tomorrow I will continue on with a detailed test of everything, including screenshots.
Thanks for reading, good night.
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