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To: inaflash who wrote (70820)	11/7/2007 1:09:05 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213181

>>"It just works"?<< Flash - Here's an interesting coincidence. I was just thinking about composing a post about my impressions of Leopard after having lived with it for a bit over a week. To some extents, my conclusions mirror some of the things you said in that post. Basically, my impression is that Leopard is a little less "baked" than previous releases have been. There are a few things that aren't working quite right yet, including "Back to My Mac", which is one of the best and most important new features. Apple officially acknowledges that this feature needs improvement in a message on their website, and I'm sure that fixes will be delivered soon, but it's disappointing to me, and I'm sure even more so to others. I've seen some funny behaviors in Mail, which I'm trying to now use as my primary mail client. And syncing between my Macs and .mac has had problems since the upgrade, though I found a post on the support boards that seems to have led me to the solution for that, at least. I'm also forced to agree with some of the points raised in the Ars Technica review of Leopard, now that I've been able to read the whole thing. I still maintain that some things the author presented as huge, cataclysmic mistakes are really just matters of taste. But I do agree, after using the system for a while, that transparency in menus is not really helpful, and is actually slightly distracting. And it's true that having the "stacks" icons change every time you add a new item to the folder is not a good thing. In fact, I'm not sure I care for the whole "stacks" feature. I also agree that the new folder icons are less instantly "readable" than the old ones. One piece of very good news is that Time Machine works just like it should. Now, given all the changes under the hood, it's not surprising that some third-party applications don't work with Leopard yet. I think those kinds of issues are to be expected, and we early adopters should consider that we have made the choice to jump out in front, so we shouldn't blame Apple for our minor discomforts on that score. Others can debate whether Apple might have been better off delaying the release of Leopard a second time, so that they could really nail things down. I can see how that decision would have been unattractive to them, since the reaction would definitely have been negative. And I do think Leopard is in most respects a very solid upgrade. I don't regret being an early user of 10.5. But I am looking forward to the 10.5.1 release. - Allen