10.5 redux
Whilst I’m re-installing all of my apps and documents and shit, I’m beginning to pick up some of the smaller enhancements and improvements of Leopard…
Although I am aware of 10.5’s glaring bugs, omissions and other misfortunate hickups - it’s been documented enough and it kept me from installing it from day one - I must say that the experience for me has been overwhelmingly positive so far.
Not only does my system feels much more responsive and snappy now, but I’m already noticing a faster and more efficient workflow, and that’s exactly what an OS should do: make me efficient, transcend my human stupidity.
Didn’t use Spaces and Time Machine yet, as I see no use for me. Yet.
I love Quick Look though ! Amazing feature, worth the upgrade alone.
For instance, I didn’t know that Quick Look also previews fonts. And since you can keep the Quick Look window open, it becomes very easy to scroll through a list of fonts [in the Finder] and see what you’re getting… A real time saver, indeed.
Another small thingy I discovered, is that you can reduce the icons in the Finder toolbar (through “Customize Toolbar”)… Actually it doesn’t reduce the size of the icons (it does reduce the text though), but it shaves off a few pixels [of the Toolbar], and desktop real estate is valuable. Neat.
There’s many more little things like that, and I’m sure I’m gonna have fun discovering them all over the next few weeks or months… Oh, the cursor now shows pixel-coordinates when you take a screen snapshot, I just noticed !
Also, it flabbergasts me how Apple’s programmers could get certain functions like Quick Look and opening apps and window-refresh and stuff like that executed so swiftly, almost instantaneously. Just astonishing how big the difference is with 10.4.
I also like the unified look of windows and everything. It’s just so more tidy, and ehm, lickable. It makes the OS look and feel a lot more grown-up and mature.
Well done again, Apple ! And thank you.
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