I can think of many improvements. The Finder could be more informative, for example telling you the size of a file when you mouse over it, like in Windows. Also I should be able to right click on any image and use it as desktop wallpaper. Also the default image viewer should behave like the one in Windows as well, eg. let you perform a slideshow without needing to tell it explicitly which files to include. Really, it could learn a lot from Windows (and for that matter Linux WMs like Gnome) and I am being serious, don't take that as a trolling comment.
There's quite a few niggly things i'd like changed in Leopard, some of which they've addressed, but most of them they aren't. Most of my 'issues' could be solved with a few more options on how things work.. sort of like an OSX Advanced Mode 
Time Machine is ok, but it's not as good as it could be. The Vista betas worked brilliantly doing on the fly backups/previous versions but they they took it out for the final versions
Spaces seems to work ok, but seems very 'bolted on' still, rather than tightly integrated, and lacks any real advanced features to want to use it over the likes of Virtue.
I hope I'm proved wrong and there's lovely super secret features going to be announced shortly, but I'm not holding out much hope.
Time Machine is ok, but it's not as good as it could be. The Vista betas worked brilliantly doing on the fly backups/previous versions but they they took it out for the final versions
Spaces seems to work ok, but seems very 'bolted on' still, rather than tightly integrated, and lacks any real advanced features to want to use it over the likes of Virtue.
I hope I'm proved wrong and there's lovely super secret features going to be announced shortly, but I'm not holding out much hope.
titchard said:
Of course there are several levels of beta tester, all covered under NDA, but the whole point of the developers getting beta seeds is so they can make sure their code works from day one. If they are adding a load of whizz bang new features late in the game and haven't informed the developers then that's a recipe for disaster come launch day.
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Beepcake said:
But couldnt the features be those which dont affect the architecture, thus the reaso core animation and the obj-c 2.0 were announced early and also the extended integration with .mac and time machine was put in to encourage users to use these new tech's then later the other stuff might be less dissruptive.
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fumbles said:
Please dont turn this into one of those mac vs pc threads, each to their own.
Vista = OSXfumbles said:
Nice how microshaft released Vista in 4 different forms aswell as making 32bit and 64bit. Not trying for more money or anything
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Get out of the linux+OSX forum with your talk of microshaft
I've never known microshaft to put out a "service pack" that gives you extra features tho? just a high number of security fixes and some big bug fixes
mortals said:
Maybe you don't count a vastly-improved, more configurable firewall that can be controlled by GPO as a "new feature"....
TBH I'd class OS X.y iterations as somewhere between a Service Pack release and a new OS release. Apple do offer a lot of new functionality and have improved upon what's there already significantly with each new release. However I haven't seen enough change or new features between new OS X releases to justify shelling out up to £150. So its just as well Im covered by AMP and have an ADC account through work
Im fairly sure that Tiger was around the £149.00 mark when it came out, as was Panther when it originally came out, a moot point anyway seeing as I said "up to £150".
Anyway we'll wait and see what Leopard costs when it hits the shops shall we
Anyway we'll wait and see what Leopard costs when it hits the shops shall we