from Amazon, or check out the The Leopard GM is here | October 28, 2007
Well, I’ve installed the GM of Leopard, and it looks a lot like the last pre release build, however there are a number of differences…
- There is a new look for the dock when it is positioned on either side.
- The Front Row icon changed from what appeared to be the round Apple Remote button to a big red fluffy chair.
- I immediately noticed that the hard drive you select for Time Machine backups gets it own special drive icon.
- Lot’s of new default bookmarks on Safari’s Bookmark Bar.
- Apple stuck some PDF’s in the Documents and Downloads folders which are on the dock to explain what stacks are.
…and that’s all I can see at first glance. I haven’t really been doing to much digging since I’ve had a fairly busy weekend, plus when I install new release versions of OS’s I tend to wipe out the the old and start from scratch, which may or may not really do much, but after a few days of getting my system back up to normal I feel better about it (a bit of OCD on my part perhaps).
Now that’s the product is out I guess it’s safe to say, I think the Stacks feature blows. In Tiger when I put a folder on the dock I could navigate through subdirectories from the Dock, but Stacks replaces that most useful ability with some questionable eye-candy. Too bad… kind of a big ugly mark across an otherwise wonderful upgrade.