What is your favorite new Leopard feature?
By ghutchis at Wed, Nov 7 2007 2:46pm
Time Machine
16% (9 votes)
Quick Look
24% (13 votes)
iChat Theater
2% (1 vote)
Spaces
16% (9 votes)
Scripting Bridges
7% (4 votes)
Xcode 3
5% (3 votes)
Instruments / Dtrace
4% (2 votes)
Improved Spotlight
2% (1 vote)
64-bit Applications
7% (4 votes)
Better multi-threading
11% (6 votes)
Other (please comment below)
5% (3 votes)
Total votes: 55
Comments
Mail.app Notes & Todo's
Mail.app Notes & Todo's
One step ahead ...
The developer community will no doubt be able to harness the power of DTrace, LLVM, and improved Core* for creating better applications. Forcing 64-bit support is progressive thinking, and they are not taking security laying down with the sandboxing and memory address randomization measures implemented in Leopard.
So I guess my favorite feature would be ALL the things that make developing great apps easier on the platform (including Xcode improvements). After all, what good is an operating system if no one can or wants to write apps for it?
Plus, we're finally UNIX certified. :)
Handling remote drives that go away
I hate to waste my vote on something so non-sexy. I'd much rather vote for Quick Look, which is amazing.
But the thing that I HATED in Tiger was when a remotely-mounted disk would disappear for some reason. Perhaps my laptop was awakened at home after not having ejected a shared drive at work. Or perhaps my co-worker's machine was shut down for the night without telling me. Or perhaps my iDrive momentarily disappeared for whatever reason.
BEACHBALL time, under Tiger. Works reasonably in Leopard.
exposed interfaces for standard user-land libraries
This is relatively obscure, but now I don't (nescessarily) need to add open-source builds of FreeType, libPNG, etc. to my list of packages to maintain -- the interfaces and libraries are included.
Also is a wrapper for readline that almost works. Well, it does work, but the syntax for key bindings is different for libEdit and libreadline... we're working on it...
But anyway, with an up-to-date Python and some other Linux-user-land packages already there, our application footprint is cut in half on Leopard.
Also BLAS, ATLAS...
There's actually a nice long list of UNIX interfaces like the ones you mentioned which were added in Leopard. It's really nice for those of us who use Linux or UNIX programs which previous required various levels of porting to Darwin.
cover flow is great
I know that this is an old poll, but I have to say that I have come to love cover flow more and more. I now use it for as my default viewing tool of groups of figures based on recent results. I also use it as the search tool for pdf copies of papers I have on stored on my hard drive (I have thrown away all of my paper copies-actually, I did this before Leopard, but now I don't ever miss them).