Comments on: The Leopard draws near! http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/07/the-leopard-draws-near/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:04:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Robert http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/08/07/the-leopard-draws-near/#comment-8702 Robert Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:50:10 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1234#comment-8702 I was actually a little underwhelmed by the announcements yesterday. It seems like most of what Jobs had to announce amounted to nothing more than eye candy (backgrounds for iChat, HTML "stationery" for email, etc.). The to-do list linking in iCal looks promising, although it'll probably mean I have to totally revamp the way I do to-do lists once this is out. "Spaces" (virtual desktops) will be nice, but I think that could (should) have been included way before now; this is a standard feature in Linux distros. Possibly the most useful thing I saw was the sort of pseudo-screencasting capabilities that iChat will have; only question there is whether non-Mac computers will be able to play along with it. The Mac Pro looks pretty sweet, but at that price I'm not holding my breath for one unless I can find a good grant for it! I was actually a little underwhelmed by the announcements yesterday. It seems like most of what Jobs had to announce amounted to nothing more than eye candy (backgrounds for iChat, HTML “stationery” for email, etc.).

The to-do list linking in iCal looks promising, although it’ll probably mean I have to totally revamp the way I do to-do lists once this is out. “Spaces” (virtual desktops) will be nice, but I think that could (should) have been included way before now; this is a standard feature in Linux distros. Possibly the most useful thing I saw was the sort of pseudo-screencasting capabilities that iChat will have; only question there is whether non-Mac computers will be able to play along with it.

The Mac Pro looks pretty sweet, but at that price I’m not holding my breath for one unless I can find a good grant for it!

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