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Open Thread: Leopard Preview
Merlin Mann | Aug 7 2006
Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek Like most of you, I'm keeping an eye on today's previewed features of the upcoming "Leopard" (OS X 10.5) release. Looks like some interesting ideas -- many of which, as usual, seem inspired by existing third-party products. I think I'm most intrigued so far by the idea of "to-do" functionality from within Mail.app (thanks for the tip, Matt); let's hope that also means I can deep link to a given email from my iCal task list. I also welcome the concept of built-in email templates -- although I'm kind of bummed that they seem more focused on execrable 1999-style HTML emails than on the kind of functional time-savers found in the peerless MailTemplate. To be honest, on first blush -- and I'm sure there's much more to come by the time of release -- this feels a bit cute and a little light on really revolutionary stuff (the long overdue promise of something like Time Machine notwithstanding). Stuff like (yet. more.) iLife integration is handy enough for the notional Swithcher and Grandpa Joe, but in general I guess I'm hoping for some serious power-user improvements to the core functionality. Maybe that's just me. What do you think? What's "Yeah!" and what's "Meh?" Anybody else holding out hope for some really deep Finder rewriting and more functional iCal updates? Other coverage55 Comments
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 To everybody who cheers at...Submitted by tom (not verified) on August 7, 2006 - 12:48pm.
To everybody who cheers at the "To Do" feature in mail, or the tabbed iChat - I'm sorry, but this is supposed to be an OS upgrade and it's gonna cost a lot of money. I'm not even willing to spend money on an "improved finder", I expect a lot more. Time Machine certainly is a good feature, it's just not my thing; but that's the kind of new features I expect from a major OS upgrade. Unfortunately it's the only one in Leopard. Don't even get me started on mail stationary or iChat backdrops. Please! PS: even Tiger only had 2 major new features: Dashboard (previously available as shareware, sort of) and Spotlight (free on other operating systems). Previous OS X releases were must-haves (remember Jaguar), but I could still happily live with Panther, and I'm certainly going to keep Tiger until 10.6 comes out (with hopefully new and useful features). » POSTED IN:
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