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Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5

Posted by kdawson on from the latin-for-exhaustive dept.

E1ven writes "Ars Technica has published their in-depth review of the newest version of Mac OS X. John Siracusa both covers the user-visible features such as the new UI tweaks and Time Machine, and dives into the increased use of metadata and the new APIs introduced and what they mean for the future of OS X."

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  1. Meh by vought · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've been using Leopard for three days now.

    I don't notice the changes all that much. After day two, the changes kind of faded, and the features became more important than the subtle UI changes.

    I don't think it's just me, and I can see a strategy behind it; like a car company, Apple keeps evolving the sizzle around a particular model while tweaking the internals to get ahead or stay competitive. It works for me.

  2. One big one: Boot Camp! by gregeth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So, lots of eye candy for the casual user. Anyone care to chime in why a geek might want to upgrade?
    If you look around Apple's site now any mention of boot camp on Tiger or a download for it has completely disappeared. While it was only in beta, Apple did clearly advertise it with their Macs as a feature available for new Macs. Those who have purchased Intel based Macs with Tiger can no longer get boot camp for their Macs, unless they upgrade to Leopard. Unless, of course, if someone wants to correct me on this, but I can't find anything on it. It just seems typical of Apple to abandon their users like this.
  3. Re:I see no reason for a geek to upgrade by overunderunderdone · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Really? Did you read the same review I did? It seems Siracusa was saying the opposite, that all the exciting stuff is for developers that users won't even notice (Aside from the cool new stuff developers can do with it) DTrace, FSEvents , Core Animation, Core Text, better 64-Bit support, Objective C 2.0.

  4. Transparent Menu bars were a bad choice. by Shivetya · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sorry, but its cheesey. I am looking forward to many of the changes involved, but some of the UI changes leave me scratching my head.

    Time Machine - Disk Eater - be careful, when manipulating large files (movie/picture) and making only small changes it backs it all up. This is nice to get previous versions exactly as they were but the side effect is a lot of disk can be eaten.

    Oh, do you have a lot of email? Some packages (not naming) store it all in one file, and as such guess what happens when your TM timer is up?

    I so like the new preview functionality...

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    1. Re:Transparent Menu bars were a bad choice. by Zelos · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Virtual Machines cause a similar problem with TM - my 20GB Parallels VM was being backed up once an hour, whenever it was running.