My buddy and I, both eagerly clutching onto the edge of our seats while MacRumors.com kept updating, gave the Keynote two thumbs up in the end.

The Mac Pro and xServe announcements were expected, but still delightful. But the "taste" of Leopard was what really got us excited.

• Time Machine seemed very nifty and welcome. This hit me as one of those "Duh, why don't more OSes have this?" features that looks like it'll be really indespensible and will lovingly just fall into my workflow without much attention from me. A lot like Expose or Dashboard (Yes, I use Dashboard - gasp).

• We cringed a bit at the Mail templates announcement. On the one hand, if you're a grandma and her seven-year-old grandson, templates might be kinda cool and pretty appropriate. But for the rest of us: I fear a rash of overuse, in Comic Sans proportions. Iggh. Still, it's not bad for them to at least offer it.

• The "system-wide" To Dos service seemed really promising, especially since any application can create one – and, if I understand right, iCal will collect them all. This might just be a good task manager for the "@Computer" context, though I don't see how it'd fully replace kGTD.

• iChat Theater might be more of a blessing than we anticipate. Sure, it's got cool eye candy and innovation (self-learning background-changess? I had to go "whoa" at that, however useless it might be), but the idea of sharing a Keynote with someone over a video iChat really has me pondering the possibilities.

• I'm crossing my fingers that there's much more drastic changes in store, too – changes that Steve Jobs lumped into the "Top Secret" category. And hopefully significant Finder improvements. It's interesting that most of the features previewed really do have existing third-party models that they're based on. Good for Apple to help prevent copycatting (though wouldn't THEY be copycatting third-party developers?), but not a very complete picture for us. Unless the whole "Top Secret" thing was a bluff.

This comment is entirely too long. But there was one more thing I noticed:

A very obvious lacking of the "One More Thing." Sure, we might get some iPod/movie store announcements in September, but not having a "One More Thing" at this? That's very, very wrong.