July 17th
Mac OS X 10.5 just came out, but I’ll wait until 10.5.1 thank you very much. I’ve read a couple reviews now, and there are many many awesome things: from redone networking preferences, to an updated Objective C runtime, to FSEvents and actual use of the file system based metadata. Best for anyone that I support: trivial backups. I’m not sure I totally like the way they did it, but it is so unimaginably easy that anyone who loses data from a disk failure on 10.5 gets no sympathy from me. But even with all this coolness, my favorite feature is super lame. Accurate date on the calendar program icon when it is not running. It isn’t July 17th anymore! Quote from ars technica:
“Apple has finally submitted to adding what must be quite a hack to get the iCal application icon to show the correct date on its Dock icon, even when the application is not running.” Quite a hack indeed.
October 30th, 2007 at 13:21
I bought it, and it’s sitting on my shelf — but I’m not installing it yet. I need my computer right now more than I need virtual spaces, better networking, screen sharing, tabbed terminals, &c. When the 2 GB stick of ram comes in, that I’ll install right away, but I’m leaving all software until I can breathe for a bit. And, just maybe, until 10.5.1.
Did you see the 17 page Ars Technica review?
October 31st, 2007 at 09:21
Why are you waiting?
-w.
October 31st, 2007 at 09:56
I think I quoted that review in my post. Should have provided a link.
As for waiting, past 10.x.0 releases have been a bit dodgy. In particular until quite recently (in the developer seeds) 10.5 has had a number of stability issues. Also historically a 10.x.1 release has come out quite quickly on the heels of the .0 release with most of the major issues fixed. 10.5 has so many massive internal changes to the OS that I just want to give it a bit. If you are chomping at the bit though, I’ll be more than happy to go in on a family pack with you.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:36
I have just heard that the Cisco VPN client has been updated, so that’s good, that takes away one reason I had to wait on upgrading.
Oh, and apparently Leopard brings Teh Snappy. That’s always what I look for, every single OS release. =)
October 31st, 2007 at 21:40
Yeah, yeah, whatever. People are always claiming that it is snappier, that is all just for historical reasons anyway. The finder will never be as fast as it was in OS8.
Hard to compete with the good old main event loop.