FoxBoom!

I promised I’d write something about Leopard, but honestly… it’s just like 10.4, except:

• It’s faster.
• Some bits look nicer.
• Some bits look worse.

The “faster” bit is great, and was totally worth paying for the upgrade. Finder is a hundred(-ish) times faster, Spotlight is a billion (-ish) times faster, Dashboard is a gazillion (-ish) times faster. Everything opens faster. Quick Look is fast. Spaces is fast.

If you’ll forgive me for being blunt, it’s fast.

And on the whole, it looks nicer too. It’s nice that all the classic/stainless steel/whatever window styles have been consolidated into just one style. Stacks look great. The big new help search pointer… thing… looks great. The new Finder sidebar is so much more usable than the old one.

Some bits, though, do look awful. The new Dock looks cheap (though is easily fixed). The new window titlebar buttons are too garish, and the new folder icons… just don’t look right.

But hey, these are minor things. The only killers for me right now are:

• .Mac sync is currently fucked.
• Drop-down controls in Firefox are fucked.

In a nutshell, it’s a superb upgrade. And some guy I said hi to on Gaydar just clicked the “I don’t like you” button, which has nothing at all to do with Leopard but has killed my mood.