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Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is a good kitty
Apple showed Mac OS 10.5 Leopard for the first time today at WWDC 2006.
It looks super spiffy as always and the automatic backup feature is worth the cost of the upgrade right there. Most of the new architecture features are to take advantage of the new Intel macs and since both BBQ and I are still rocking the Power PC G4 we are not going to get the bulk of the brand new Intel features. At least we can still run Mac OS 9 in Classic Mode.
I seriously need Time Machine right now. I have an external 80 Gig hard drive that I used to use daily but I intend to ghost my iBook hard drive but since there is no Apple brand backup utility that is not included with .Mac I have never felt like I was doing the appropriate backups. I think that Time Machine would let me put my mind to rest knowing that my data is safe.
The enhancements to Mail.app and iCal sound productastic! The Spaces tool sounds right up my ally for balancing lots of application windows.
It looks like they are pushing it back until Spring 2007. They are sort of pulling a Microsoft in setting back the release a couple months but as always I would rather have it finished and polished and out the door and untested and buggy.
I am a bit disappointed that they did not unveil a new iTunes. So far the only feature I really need from iTunes is multiple libraries on multiple drive without it freaking out. Since I have a 60 Gig iPod and a 80 Gig hard drive in my iBook I end up keeping my iTunes library on my external hard drive and that means that I can't listen to much music off my notebook when I am not plugged in at home. I can take a few albums and keep copies on my notebook but if they had the ability to have multiple libraries on multiple drives in iTunes it would be a lot more convenient for me.
In the end I will probably not need to upgrade to Mac OS 10.5 and 10.4 Tiger is treating me pretty well but I will probably do it anyway just because I do love my Mac OSX.
Jake at August 7, 2006 
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I have to admit that I dont have any clue how Time Machine is going to work. The person who was presenting Time Machine had problems with Leopard. What exactly was going on? Did a program crash or was he just confused by the navigation?
I wish Time Machine would look like A COMPUTER PROGRAM and not some gay mix of flash like motion tweening and windows star flight screensaver but I think we all know that MAC Users just LOVE motion tweens (I am a MAC user but I hate those tweens).
So TIME MACHINE makes back ups of everything- doesnt that mean it will totally rape and waste my hard drive for back ups? I don't see ANY other solution. So you will be lacking space and thats all only due the shitload of back ups time machine did. This one is also bullshit: If your hard drive dies you get a new hard drive and just get the files from your old hard drive. Either I dont know a shit about hardware or Apple doesnt. Time Machine is just some SOFTWARE program while if your HARDWARE really "dies" its pretty much broken and a software program cant help you to get your files back unless you work at the computer department of the CIA or was it FBI who could also get the files back from hard drives that got destroyed during 911- but I HIGHLY doubt TIME MACHINE could restore such files (like they said it could if your hd dies).
Posted by: Michael P. at August 25, 2006 5:23 AM
