You don't buy a new copy of Windows every 2 years.
Only because they can't scoop together enough ideas to bring one out every 2 years. Let alone code it to be anywhere near optimized.
I think the point of Leopard has been missed, despite the denials.
Whilst Apple, Steve Jobs and his inside-crew are going to push these features as brilliantly innovative no matter what (it's sort of their job) - they have added some very nice features to it.
Time machine, for example, is backing up on a totally different/new level. Being able to look at what was there and bringing it back, instead of searching through a hard drive full of folders is brilliant.
Coverflow with Quick Look is very useful to those who are untidy or those looking for something in a hurry - the idea of looking at a (example: ) Photoshop file without having to load Photoshop or whatever program/file you may be wanting to look at, is very useful.
I won't go through everything else - the updates to the GUI are very good ones and it's nice to have a new fresher look every couple of years.
That fresher look is available through a freeware or $10 app - but what Leopard is able to give as well as what it will give throughout the next 2 years or more, will be more than worth your £80, imo.
It's been no big secret that this is more of a developer's release of the OS. The lack of several real killer apps was widely reported and if anyone has bothered to look through the 300 changes page, it would be more than quickly realized.
I think those who will be disappointed with the OS are ones who wanted 300 killer apps, not 300 changes for the better of the OS. The former simply can't be done within one two-year release.
