State of the Art: Apple Offers New Goodies in Leopard System
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Appleâs new version of Leopard lists 300 new features, including a Braille font and a Danish spelling checker.
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Apple's recipe for success continues to entice.
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When Leopard ships in October, it will include 300 new and enhanced features.
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Features in the upcoming release of Apple's operating system, Leopard, may give clues to how iPhone development will work once the iPhone software-development kit appears next year. Of particular interest to developers are Leopard's security features.
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Editor's note: This story was reprinted from Computerworld. For more of Computerworld's coverage of the Mac, visit its Mac Knowledge Center.
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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When Steve Jobs unleashes Mac OS X Leopard on Friday, Mac fans and others considering an Apple computer for the first time will have questions. Is the new Leopard operating system worth the $129 upgrade price? Is it the reason to splurge for a new Mac? Long before Leopard pounced onto the scene, I rated OS X superior to Windows for most consumers. With Leopard, Apple's operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically. Whether the sixth major release of OS X in as many years puts a dent in Microsoft's dominant market share is another matter entirely.
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Leopard, the latest update of the Apple Mac operating system OSX, goes on sale worldwide from 1800 GMT.
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While the improvements to Mac OS X Leopard desktop are not expected to be revolutionary, the enhancements to Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server are impressive.
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âGiven the impressive value of Time Machine and improvements to existing programs such as iCal, iChat, Mail, and the Finder, most active Mac users will find more than enough reasons to consider [the] upgrade cost money well spent,â reports Jason Snell . Leopard delivers, Snell declares, âa major alteration to the Mac interface, a sweeping update to numerous included productivity programs, a serious attempt to improve Mac OS security, and a vast collection of tweaks and fixes scattered throughout every nook and cranny of the operating system.â
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The Safari browser is going Windows, Mac OS X Leopard has some 300 new features, and the iPhone will let Web 2.0 applications come aboard. Did these announcements on Monday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs match the anticipation?
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Apple holds its annual Macworld Expo and itâs chock-full of new high-tech goodies to be tried out.
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Apple touts eleven specific features it says will make Leopard secure.
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After a âswift and easyâ installation, Mark Kellner (Washington Times) found Mac OS X Leopard âsomething any Mac user will want to have.â âOffering better integration of e-mail with syndicated Internet news updates, a new backup feature likely to decrease the impact of hardware failures, and snazzy display features by the bushel, the $129 Apple Mac OS X Leopard upgrade is more than a reasonable purchase.â
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Two million copies and counting Apple has sold two million copies of Leopard, the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system, since its release on Friday. The company said the Leopard sales rush outpaced that of its predecessor Tiger, until now the most successful Apple operating system. The two million sales figure includes copies of Leopard sold at Apple retail stores, Apple authorised resellers, the online Apple Store, under maintenance agreements and those copies bundled with newly shipping Macs.â¦
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A round-up of reviews from around the country  weighing the merits and shortcomings of Apples's latest gadget
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Google Desktop for Mac has been updated adding support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, among many other changes.