![]() Select several files, double-click them, and you've got a custom slide show. In each instance appear relevant options, such as Full Screen view or Add to iPhoto. Quick Look provides previews that can pop up files from iWork, iLife, Microsoft Office, PDFs, as well as popular image and video formats. Plus, you can peek at most documents instantly. This makes perfect sense for browsing files. Cover Flow, for instance, shuffles through folders as you hold down an arrow key. Many new design elements reflect what you've already seen in iTunes and iPhone. ![]() It gets smarter, reading "Not" and "Or," dates and phrases, and even serving as a calculator for trig equations. Spotlight scours through files in shared folders on a network, as well as within Safari's Web History (which you should regularly dump to fend off snoops). If you work on a network, checking out another person's desktop starts with the simple Share Screen option. Click on Today, for instance, and you'll see everything you've touched lately in chronological order. The souped-up Finder introduces a sidebar that allows you to rearrange items in the Places section, while Search For submenus can locate files based on type and when you last worked on them. If the Stack is packed with items, you can display them as a grid. This is especially helpful for keeping downloads in one place, although you can't resize the icons. New Stacks help to unclutter your desktop by showing icons of items in the order they were last accessed. A drop shadow now highlights the active window, and all windows share a unified visual design.Ĭlick on an icon on the Dock and related items fan out in the order you last accessed them. Bump it over to one side, and the Dock looks a bit flatter. The Dock organizing applications and files becomes a bit more transparent. The new look and feel of Leopard is different without demanding that you relearn the layout. Leopard took a painfully long hour or so to install on an iBook G4, the 933 Mhz processor just grazing the minimum requirements. However, installation didn't run so smoothly on some systems. That's a bit longer than it took to install than Windows Vista, but not by much. It took us about 40 minutes to install Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on an Intel-based MacBook. Those who bought Macs after October 1 must pay $9.95 to have Leopard shipped to them. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard costs $129 out of the box, or $199 for up to five users. Mundane chores, such as finding files and backing up data, become a visual treat (See our photo gallery of screenshots.) Leopard's interface niceties made the daily mechanics of using the computer more pleasurable. Plus, Leopard makes it far easier to find documents and applications than Windows Vista. And if you're considering the purchase of a new computer, Leopard makes Macs more enticing than Tiger did. ![]() If you need Bootcamp, however, then you must have Leopard. Should you pay for Leopard? If you're happy with the way Tiger works, then maybe not. ![]()
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