About 3rd party integration in Time Machine. That would be awesome. I don’t expect either Adobe or Microsoft to jump on that boat anytime soon, however. All the other cocoa-apps now competing with their softwares, will be head over heels, if Apple makes it easy.

I hear a big issue for developers is also the lack of Java 6 in Leopard.

Quick look is where it’s at. I mean, it’s insane that I can browse videos, word documents, powerpoint docuemtsn, pdf documents, text files, pictures, music… in seconds just by clicking space bar. And It Works. The other niceness is the universal icon preview, it’s cool that the icon is the preview in some cases. With ever-increasing resolutions, this approach makes sense.

I’ve Time Machine on, but haven’t really used it. I think both Quick Look and Time Machine will become absolutely terrific as soon as Apple’s and 3rd party software start to leverage them. I imagine the power of Time Machine is more apparent when it’s intergated with Word or Photoshop or similar.

Due to my background choice (Oscar the Fisherman by David Lanham), I don’t notice transparent menu bar that much and thanks to Quicksilver, I use Dock rarely these days. I actually don’t have any problems with the new dock. Sure, I’d love to have the same view on the bottom as if set to left/right, but … I think the new dock is ok. The candy-coloured close-min-max-buttons are far more irritating than the new dock.

My main gripe about Leopard? OK, so they added a recent ruby build (yay!) and added readline-support (double-yay!) for irb (interactive ruby shell), but ffs I can’t use scandinavian letters in irb!

There are lots of little things that have been fixed, which had caused daily irritation in Tiger. They were so minor details that I’ve already forgotten what they were.

The problem with ZFS, I think, is that neither Apple or Sun has managed to make it work as a boot partition yet. I might be wrong, but even in Solaris you have to use something else as your main parition.

Still, there are a few things I don’t like with Apple, such as a couple of uggly behaviour of OS X.

See, I’ve lost one hour this morning with my office PC, which started the day not recognizing the WiFi base station here, then got blown away by… MS MediaPlayer11 updates, which forced a restart w/o any warning. Such of experience rarely occur with a Mac, at least since MacOS 10.1

I know you’re MS, but : you should always consider the User Experience and the Whole Product Solution as your two key basic elements when designing a new product or service… That’s where Apple is pretty strong, and MS pretty weak.

About the multi-touch… well, we’ll cross that bridge when it comes.

@jeremy: that’s a dangerous question. For some people, it’s like asking whether there’s anything they don’t like about their wife Of course I make no assumptions about Marc in this regard.

TimeMachine : the one app which is MANDATORY for The Rest Of Us. It’s moving the daily use of a computer to the next level : you don’t have to worry about copying/backing up your files anymore, the computer does it for you.

CoverFlow : totally disagree with you Vincent. It’s the feature that makes the Finder useful again, together with QuickLook. The thing is, CoverFlow will bring the most of its power to the forthcoming MacTouch. Plus, don’t forget the new iMac *looks* like the iPhone : it was designed to make people used to it, so Apple can unleash the MultiTouch capabilities to its iMac line as soon as the idea goes mainstream.

This would be awesome and Time Machine would be really useful in that case.

Time Machine over “the air” is also possible, but after some hacking. It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple decided to just enable it out of the box at some point.

The status of ZFS is not quite clear. I remember reading that there are stability-issues with it. The guy from Ars Technica, who probably wrote the best, and most technical review of Leopard, expected significant filesystem-upgrades to come in 10.6 only.

Despite those minor errors, Leopard seems pretty strong. I am a bit dismayed though about the withdrawal of full ZFS support, resolution independance, and Time Machine’s backups through Airport.

The latter two are killer feaures, which could have made me buy a Mac finally !

And the dock, well there’s some hacks on either macosxhints or lifehacker for converting it into a 2-d normal-looking thing. Of course, auto-hiding the bar always helps

Ah yeah, I forgot that the folder-icons all look the same, which sucks. I hope someone releases some kind of easy (!) fix for that too.

I always try to upgrade more than a month after the release. This way I shouldn’t be stucked waiting for 3rd party software upgrades…

I’m not excited by the new UI : icons, transparent dock & menu bar, wtf Mr. Jobs ?

But reading this post I can’t wait for spaces, files previews and a fast spotlight (at least)…

Like with any OS X update, it’s not so impressive, but the small tweeks should improve the long-term usuability

About file-sharing, I can happily report no more beach-balls. It also auto-detects and mounts(!) windows-computers on a LAN.

Since Jaguar at least, they have avoided thousands of Mac Users from getting into real trouble.

Just a quick comment on File Sharing : apparently there are still some little issues, although the Finder is not freezing anymore when connecting to a server.