Leopard has come to the Turiel Mansion, and here are my very quick thoughts:
- No idea what it really means for battery life, because Spotlight has been reindexing since it finished installing. I was down watching TV and reading, and it sucked the battery pretty dry in that time. After the reindex is done we'll be able to get some real numbers.
- It had to recreate my .Mac iDisk. Hopefully it's using a .sparseimage file now (I will check tomorrow). Blocking off all that disk for very little content has been annoying.
- The new, informative AirPort menu is spiffy. So is the new Network system preference.
- The translucent menubar and menu is very visually bleh. It really needs more opacity. 3rd party opportunity present!
- Quick View is a nice feature. The live icon previews are a little tough to get used to, but handy.
- The new folder icon look is not good. Very industrial, and not as useful as the old ones (the icons are more difficult to discern the "special" symbols on them for system folders)
- Mail is spiffy. iCal is fast. No server experience yet for another week or so, so I can't tell you if the iCal server's any good.
- Bonus feature: My MS Wireless Laser Mouse 800 now works fine - no hoops necessary. The Mac just pairs with it. Before, I had to repeatedly power-cycle the mouse to get it to work, and go through a weird procedure with BT File Transfer to get it to work at all (it's not Mac-compatible in theory without the special MS dongle, but I'm stubborn and I liked it's ergonomics). I turned the mouse on and it saw it, filled in the info properly and just started working.
- No noticed incompatibilities so far. Office appears OK. No CS3 testing yet. It's bedtime.
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