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用了一个礼拜的Leopard，写写感受。

先说Leopard的由来，一个朋友是Apple的Developer，免费给我拿了一套来。一分钱都不付，既然是不要钱的那么就甘愿当白鼠了。

安装很轻松，我选择的是Upgrade，整个过程不用一小时。安装结束后所有的过去的软件都还在。而且都能正常运行。

至于Leopard的新花样我已经写了一篇“The New Leopard” 。真正用了以后发现Mail里面有很多新功能。最爽的就是增加了一个RSS Reader。我就可以直接吧Google Reader里的Feed转到Apple Mail里，好处是你们谁更新了Blog 就会以Mail的格式发到我的信箱里，出门在外的时候就可以在Iphone或者Blackberry里直接读别人的Blog。

Mail的一个新的好处是和Icalender的完美衔接，可以直接将教授发的邮件做到Todo里。

Quicklook真是爽的没话说，放700M左右的DVDrip完全不用开任何播放软件。但是放BluRay和HD的时候就有区别了，VLC的HD在色彩，音效上的优势就完全体现出来了。但Quicklook的作用就是便捷，所以也没有必要挑剔。

顺便放两张帖图上来。

Spaces (I had a extended monitor, so 4 spaces becomes 8, but you can modify the number of spaces.)

Spaces (click to enlarge):

Quicklook (click to enlarge):

Cover Flow (click to enlarge):

Just seen the new guided tour of the new mac operating system: the Mac OS X 10.5 AKA the leopard, which is coming out on October the 26th, exactly 5 days from now.

Here are some of my thoughts on pros and cons of the new operating system.

Pros:

• State-of-the-art user interfaces. (Com’n! it’s a mac)
• the new feature of spaces (old feature of linux).
• Itunes-like new finder, which means there is a cover flow of all of your files, you can scroll through all the files from your finder like scrolling through the album covers in itunes. You can even preview pdf, keynotes, windows excel sheets and VIDEOS without opening them. (this feature was in tiger, but you have to preview them from “get info”)
• the new Ichat. It’s really hard to describe in words, you can choose your background using leopard preset videos, and even your own videos, the semi-craziest idea is to show many documents such as pdfs, office files and even videos to the guy your are chatting with. The craziest idea is that you can remotely control the other guy’s computer using Ichat, sort of like the remote control assistant in windows, but it’s so much easier and you can keep chatting during the whole process, bringing video chatting into a totally new era.
• There is only one version of leopard, no such things like home, professional, business editions.
• Pricing. The Leopard costs only $129. A much better operating system than windows Vista and only costs half as much, totally putting Microsoft on shame.
• The last but the most important (to me): Upgrading. If you try to upgrade your new system on your old mac but worrying about the hassle of reinstalling all the software you had on your old mac and backing up all the old files. The solution is: you don’t need to. When you upgrade your new computer, the system asks you what to keep and what not to.

However, some of the pros are also cons:

• yea, I know the design is a beautiful piece of artwork, but is it gonna be running smoothly on my n-year-old mac? doesn’t apply to me because I have the freaking ass kicking macbook pro. Although the tech specs are here.
• about the new Ichat, you have to have a 128kbps to enable screen sharing, which means say goodbye to wireless, hook up a cable and pray that you don’t have internet providers such as earth-link.
• I’m not a Ichat user, I have aim which can be run on Ichat, I also use gmail(Gtalk), MSN messenger, I have to talk to my parents in China on SKYPE every week. Unless all of your friends are using mac, then this fancy feature is more or less useless to you.
• I don’t actually like the time-machine, I like the idea that you can go through all the files that you deleted and the star wars interface. But to back up the files needs a huge hard drive and what I’m REALLY worried about is if your computer has viruses, and it is GONNA be in your back up files and after formatting your computer you happen to extract some files in your infected back up files. I think apple is confident about there anti virus system because there’s only few viruses running on unix and I admit I never use anti virus software on mac because I’ve never got viruses on my mac, but there’s still possibilities that your mac CAN get one.

Other thoughts:

I like Leopard VERRRY much, but there is always compatibility problems when the new operating systems come out. I know and lots of people know that never ever be the rats of the biology labs, wait for couple of months and see how the reviews are.

P.S.

If you really hate reading and can’t go through the videos because of the poor internet connections. Learn more on apple’s leopard new features page.