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Open Thread: Leopard Preview
Merlin Mann | Aug 7 2006
Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek Like most of you, I'm keeping an eye on today's previewed features of the upcoming "Leopard" (OS X 10.5) release. Looks like some interesting ideas -- many of which, as usual, seem inspired by existing third-party products. I think I'm most intrigued so far by the idea of "to-do" functionality from within Mail.app (thanks for the tip, Matt); let's hope that also means I can deep link to a given email from my iCal task list. I also welcome the concept of built-in email templates -- although I'm kind of bummed that they seem more focused on execrable 1999-style HTML emails than on the kind of functional time-savers found in the peerless MailTemplate. To be honest, on first blush -- and I'm sure there's much more to come by the time of release -- this feels a bit cute and a little light on really revolutionary stuff (the long overdue promise of something like Time Machine notwithstanding). Stuff like (yet. more.) iLife integration is handy enough for the notional Swithcher and Grandpa Joe, but in general I guess I'm hoping for some serious power-user improvements to the core functionality. Maybe that's just me. What do you think? What's "Yeah!" and what's "Meh?" Anybody else holding out hope for some really deep Finder rewriting and more functional iCal updates? Other coverage55 Comments
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 Leander Kahney also felt a...Submitted by Nick S (not verified) on August 9, 2006 - 6:49am.
Leander Kahney also felt a bit 'meh' about the preview, and I have to admit that I wasn't impressed by the write-ups, and was more impressed by the video. Perhaps that's the Jobs suspension-of-scepticism field. But with Vista delayed, and presumably not UI/feature-locked, I suspect that there's a reluctance to show any radical stuff this early. Yes, there's user-pretty, but Keynote/iPhoto in iChat is actually useful, WebClip is a way to get people interested in Dashboard again, and Time Machine (if the implementation is right -- how will it work with external HD backups?) looks like it just. works. More to come, I imagine. » POSTED IN:
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