Brnzwngs - Tech blog

The United States Postal Service decided to get its act together and deliver my Leopard DVD to my house today. Thank you! With little school work to do, I set off on my installation adventures. Of course, with my luck, I ran into the blue screen problem after installation. After a brief panic, I regained my composure, booted into single user mode, and wrecked havoc in Terminal. It was up and running in no time.

So. Here are my first impressions. I like it. It isn’t as big of a change as I thought it would be, but it didn’t make things worse. Vista took XP’s suckiness to a whole new level while Leopard makes small steps beyond Tiger. When will Apple release 11.0 of their operating system? I don’t know, but I’ll be there to get it. They didn’t let me down.

Now, most of the updates in the new OS were eye candy related. Stacks in the Dock are nice, but I’m not sure how much I’ll use them. Spaces is also nice, those I may use. Time Machine I can’t use unless I’m perpetually hooked up to an external hard drive, so that isn’t much good. I’ll end up doing that anyways, but it’s annoying.

Another panic attack was induced when everything was taking hours to load. This was quickly attributed to Spotlight’s indexing of my entire laptop. No problems now. If you ask me, Leopard is actually faster than Tiger. I’ve noticed dramatic speed increases with Spotlight and Mail especially. Now I wish that Comcast wouldn’t be so crappy with my internet connection…

So in the end, Leopard is looking A-OK. Nothing huge to see here, but it’s certainly worth the upgrade. Check out my Flickr photos to see more screen shots!