Journal Entry

Leopard goodness

October 31st 2007 at 12:00 am

I just installed the latest Mac OS, and I’m rather impressed. The backup software, Time Machine, has to be the easiest I’ve used. I have my spare hard drive set up to keep hourly time stamps versions of changes made to my hard drive that I can roll back like the history of wiki page.

Spaces is a form of virtual desktop. I’ve used some virtual desktops in the past, it’s nice to have an integrated one.

The new To Do notes sit inside of my mail program, but also synchronize, if you use IMAP, to my mail folders of my email, which means they’re easily viewable on my PDA or online where ever I login, and are thus transportable between my laptop and main computer as well.

There are all sorts of other new features, but those were easily the three that made any buyer’s remorse fade away right away. There are many more features, but I’m just focused on getting it installed and getting back to work. There’s blogging and new rewrite notes back from my editor to get cracking on.

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  1. 1. Aidan from A Dribble of Ink on Oct 31st, 2007 at 1:13 pm

    Ahh, I’m jealous!

    I’m stuck on stinky ol’ Tiger! As soon as some money I’m expecting arrives, though, I think I’ll bite the bullet and upgrade.

    I’m curious what software you use for your hourly time stamps. I’ve been looking for a good one.

    ~Aidan
    A Dribble of Ink

  2. 2. Samuel Tinianow on Oct 31st, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    Okay, while this is on topic, I want to try an experiment.

    Are either of you going to look at me like I eat babies when I tell you that I’ve tried both major OS’s extensively (like, more than 4 years apiece) and strongly prefer Windows?

    The hourly time stamps sound nice, but I do enjoy, you know, not really needing them…

  3. 3. Tobias Buckell on Oct 31st, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    I don’t like the hourly time stamp because the system needs it, but because I delete things by accident. I’ve never had a major OS crash or real issue with Mac. I worked in a Windows lab environment for 5 years. I’ll only work with Windows if you pay me, for my home, I use Mac.

    I really could care less what other people use, I had some high hopes for Vista, but after taking a look at what actually came out I’m disinterested. I’ve used OS-X for 7 years now with almost no software issues of any kind and until that changes I’m taking ease of use, security and the incredible 7 year run until it dies on me.

  4. 4. Tobias Buckell on Oct 31st, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    Aidan, hourly versioning comes with Time Machine. Very slick.

  5. 5. Samuel Tinianow on Nov 1st, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    Noted.

    I never had any software issues with my mac, but the hard drive crashed once a year pretty reliably. Of course, I guess that’s why 12″ powerbooks aren’t made anymore.

  6. 6. Tony on Nov 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 pm

    I never bothered to install Vista on my desktop back home, I preferred XP. But now I only use my MBP and can’t wait to get my hands on Leopard.

  7. 7. Tobias Buckell on Nov 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    Awesome :-) How are you finding your switch as a recent new Mac user these days?

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