Mac OS X Leopard

Apple will be releasing its new OS X version, version 10.5, or Leopard, and it comes with exciting new features


Apple Releases the Leopard

Apple will be releasing its newest operating system, OS X, this October 27. The Mac OS X Leopard will contain 300+ new features, and that's a lot. It includes the new Quick Look, which allows you to preview your files before actually opening them, the improved Time Machine, that backups your Mac in real-time, hourly, and on a daily basis, and new and improved Desktop, with sleeker Dashboard and transparent menus. Spotlight has been improved, too, allowing you to search files that matches multiple criterias with modifiers like AND, OR, and NOT. And improvements on Mac's web browser, the Safari.

One of the things I like about the new features is the Time Machine. It really helps backup your computer without user intervention. It backs everything up in the background. The neat thing is, you can go back in time with this little feature. You can see how your system looked in the past hour, or the past day, or the past week. Apple says that the Time Machine works a bit differently. By making applications send out data to the Time Machine when a file is modified, Time Machine knows when to update the copy on the backup. And Time Machine works seamlessly with Quick Look, so you can browse for the file, look at the contents, so you can decide if you want to restore it or not.

It looks like Apple is really bulking up against Vista, but knowing Apple, they may battle it out with their ads. Vista is good, but it looks like Mac OS X is better.