Great News! New Apple OSX 10.5 aka “Leopard” will be released on this friday 10/26 @6:00pm. Only $129 for single user license. Cheaper than Vista. Leopard will be a major OS upgrade since OSX 10.4 aka Tiger released on April 29, 2005.
Leopard is a fast, secure, well integrated, and neat-looking operation system.
There are 300+ new features added into Leopard.
Here are some highlights of key features:
- Time machines – a simplest, easy-to-use and powerful automatic back up utility. (Video tutorial)
- New “Front Row” – a “Apple-TV” like interface media center which allow you to listen music or podcasts, watch movies, movie trailers or TV shows, view photos, even DVD playback using Apple remote. (Video Demo)
- New “Desktop” -include new 3-D glassy reflective dock, semi-transparent menu bar, deeper drop shadow window. And, new dock has neat features like download stack, spring-loaded stack or sorting stack. (Video Demo)
- Quick Look – a preview feature which allows you preview any types of files without opening up specific application.
- Mail – enhanced email client including features like stationary, create To-do list item directly from the message, data detector which strictly add address, phone number, events from the message into iCal or address book directly. No re-data-entry. (Video Demo)
- iChat – enhanced features on video chatting, including backdrop effects (you can use your own photo to be background of the live video), screen sharing, iChat theater, etc. (Video demo)
Click here to see the complete list of new features.
Leopard is not only better look or more new features, but also have better performances by supporting 64-bit processing, multi-core processors, core animations, and better security features. (View details)
Here is the complete video tour guide. (Link)
I think Leopard will provide a whole new computer experience for Mac users, and attract more PC users switching.
Please, free feel to leave me a comment.
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