Mac OSX Leopard - Review

Tech reviews, in this review video you will learn about the Mac OSX Leopard.

Hi guys John here with a just long overdue preview of the new operating system for Apple computers Leopard. First thing before I get started to this, this is isn’t going to be a video demonstration in the features. There have been copious other videos that have done that and probably better that I could ever do. So up here, I am going to put some links that will give you some video demonstration of the features that I am going to talk about this video. This is just going to be my impressions on the operating system as a whole having used it since launch day. So first to talk about of the main issue that everybody that wants to know is stability. In all the time that I have—Leopard now has been, in a month, it hasn’t crashed on me once. The computer has been rocks out, it was rock solid tiger too but things feel a little zippier. The boot up time is a little bit slower probably about three or four seconds slower. But the operating system itself has just been really quick once it is loaded up. So if you worry about stability of your operating system, don’t worry it isn’t Vista, I’m not going to knock off Microsoft—it’s just Apple—there was some issues that Microsoft have. There’s some of the first cool features and the big features, I won’t talk a little about the smaller ones. The first big one the one that I use all the time actually had needed to use the time machine. So a time machine is, it’s essentially it is automated back up so we need to have in order to make time machine work, you need to have an external hard drive that’s bigger than your internal drive on your computer. And one thing to know when you activate time machine in Leopard it will delete all the content off of your external drives, so just be aware of that firsthand. And what it does is it gives you a 3D view of your desktop. So let’s say you’re working in a Microsoft Word and you have all your word documents saved in a word document folder on your desktop and all of the sudden you actually deleted a file. We can actually open up that folder click, time machine, you will get three dimensional view of all the folders going back and you can go back to whatever that document was before you lost it. Click it and hit restore and it’s back and that’s it. Everything is totally automated and you don’t have to do anything. As you plug in your external drive the operating asks you if you want to activate time machine, hit YES and that’s it that’s all you got to do. My 500gigabyte MyBook that I was using has been awesome. I recommend it if you were looking for an external hard drive otherwise others have been pretty good. So the time machine has been really good feature, I had paper that I was working on that for whatever reason I ended up—I was tired and it was late, ended up deleting a pair a of graph and that I didn’t want to delete and I saved it and closed it. I realized it the next morning, and as I would use time machine to bring back the old version of the document I opened up that paragraph and paste it back right back in. So I can already attest to how a good time machine is and I am sure as things go on we will going to be happy with it if I‘m just going to use MS Word, so time machine how you recommend it, I think that alone is worth the cost of the operating system. The next cool thing is something called Spaces and what Spaces is it is essentially—it’s a virtualized desktops. So let’s say you are downloading music from iTunes, browsing the web, and you’re editing a video and it’s processing. What you can do now is have a separate work space for each. You activate Spaces and you can hit CNTRL and the arrow keys and it turns Spaces on and it actually filters through your desktop, give you an icon on your screen on how many desktops you have. And you can just drag and drop different windows into different virtual Spaces. And I think that’s the one that one thing that is review—could probably use or check out the video for review of Spaces, that help you guys out, help you guys out a lot. So the Spaces is a great feature, I haven’t really used that much, I could have a dual screens but if I do have a dual screen, I can see Spaces is a really great feature, especially if you are travelling. One of the next cool thing of spaces to know is a new iChat. iChat is instant message client that comes built in and that has a really cool feature I actually got a list here so I can help you guys a little bit. So, some of the cool stuff with iChat you get new Photo Booth effects so you can setup background at the back make it like your underwater on a roller coaster all kinds of really cool stuff. One of the nice features is the thing called the screen sharing and you really what you can do is you can collaborate with friend over iChat. You can work on anything you want whether it is a presentation in keynote or PowerPoint and you invite the other person to your connection. It actually brings up the desktop on your screen and you can share it. Similar to like PC Anywhere or Remote Desktop but it is really easy to do. And you can't do with MAC to MAC. You know, what’s make it real easy. So that’s one of the real cool features with iChat is that of screen sharing thing. It’s got a lot of other things—you can record now, yourself on iChat, you can use multiple logins, you can make yourself look invisible. You get animated body icons there’s iChat Theater, you can show nearly any file on your system through iChat video conference. So if you are getting a presentation for work or something or school, you can have everybody login via iCchat. And you can show him your keynote or PowerPoint presentation. Anyway that can be a real handy feature too. What are some of the biggest features I think with Leopard, you know in addition there is a three dimensional doc and kind of some cursory stuff. But overall there are 300 plus new features most of the highlights of them. You know, there is a Google Map Addresses in your address book, there is new stuff with Apple Scripts, Automators Updated. Boot Camp is now out of BETA and officially part of leopard so if you want to run in Boot Camp now, you have to have Leopard. And check out my video on Boot Camp versus parallels and tells you what Boot Camp is. But it’s actually allows you to run Windows XP or Vista on your MAC natively. And again you need a full install disk of Vista or XP, it doesn’t come with Boot Camp. Dashboard is now updated to use the sim called Web Clips. You can clip any portion of a web page and just drag it down the Dashboard and make in a widget. And whenever that page gets updated, it will show up on Dashboard, but it’s actually really cool. If you look at—if you look at My Page and you will Echo page and you look at the gadget or ESPN you can clip those and right to Dashboard, open up Dashboard and see if any of us have anything new that you want to see. So that’s kind of neat. And I guess one of the last features that I use a lot is a Sync called Stacks. And what Stacks is it can rally organize all your files into a really nice neat stack. And in one click and the stack can opens up and it read and opens kind of a strip file that you can just open and have anything you want. So, I go to some pictures a lot and I set up My Pictures folder as a stack and it is really handy and you can view it as a list or view all of your icons once. So you can sort them and you can download Stack, it is really easy. There’s also a new front row, the front row is very similar to the front row on Apple TV, it looks just the same now. So, I really like the way that looks, there’s a lot of graphic and media setup updated too and there’s new core animations and updated OpenGL. I will post some links again over there to list some of the new features. There is some stuff for analyzing templates and mail has a new features, it’s got iMail, it’s got a new Stationery, new RSS Readers, Photo Booth has new effects in there too. It’s kind of an updated interface so that is nice when you use Photo Booth. And the last thing that I almost forgot to mention is the thing called Quick View. So actually its one thing I use lowest in Leopard. If you are ever going to a huge list of files and you want to see which one of it is. You can click on it hit your spacebar it opens up quick view, it actually opens up the document without opening up the program so if you have Adobe program, it will open it up. That will open up PhotoShop or whatever it is, you have to see what the document looks like. But if a word documents open up, keynote presentation, you can see what it is—it’s really neat. I recommend there a picture, you click the picture and hit space and it opens u p the picture. So I think that is very worth while. Anyway guys, sorry I couldn’t show the videos and demonstrations here. YouTube is going to cut me off in just a minute, keep it under ten. So I want you guys know some of the new features, in addition in Cover Flow, you can sort documents via Cover Flow like you can in iTunes. So just a quick summation of Leopard—overall I am very happy with it certainly worth the upgrade. Anyway guys enjoy, have a nice afternoon or evening or whatever you’re at, and guys I’ll talk to you later—Bye.