Today Apple announced their next-generation operating system, Leopard. It has enhanced iChat, Mail, Accessibility, Dashboard, and Spotlight. They announced some new things, but the rest is ‘Top Secret’. So lets jump in on my views on the new features!
Time Machine
Everyone expected Google to build a time machine, but Apple beat them to it! Except this time machine is just for back-up. It is a very graphical way to show the progression over time of files and to revert back to it by showing the application aging back and forth. I want to know if this has the simpler features, but besides that is is great. I also hope you can back up to your iPod. I know I would without all the history. I also want to know if it does live back-uping.
Spaces
It’s a bird! It’s a plain! No! It’s Apple attacking the software developers! Introducing Spaces! Spaces is a virtual desktop application that comes in the new Mac OS X.
This application better have some nice features to justify Apple trying to put down another application for their own system. Don’t get me wrong! I think this is a nice application, but it needs something to separate it from the other applications out there. I do not know what the key commands will be, but they should be simple for usability sake.
Dashboard Web Clips
I know, this shouldn’t be my favorite, besides iChat’s new webcam features, but it is. This is a dashboard widget that lets you clip any section of a web page you want and put it in the dashboard! This is awesome because this will help me check for updates and get straight to the page of a page I want.
Overall the upgrade seems like Mac OS X Tiger + MS Power Toys. They need some real changes for an operating system upgrade and that is what I think you will see when Apple unviels their “Top Secret” features. I do like these new features but paying $120 just for those features isn’t worth it. I bet Apple has some big secrets though!
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