Mac OSX 10.5.2 Drawing Near

I've been waiting for the first big Leopard update for a while now. Out of the box, it worked beautifully, but as is usual with operating systems, more and more problems developed over the first few months of release. Steve's customary update on the sales figures at Macworld was a comforting one- almost 5 million

A few of the features introduced by Leopard were left slightly undeveloped. Stacks were eye candy, rather than an efficient file organisation system, and whilst the coverflow file view is nice, the functionality isn't quite perfect.

You might think my expectations are a little high, and I would be the first to admit that Leopard shits all over Vista, a cheap imitation which can't even pull off the tricks that Apple mastered with Tiger, years ago. And its no coincidence that Apple's market share is rising rapidly- with the problems Vista presents, Apple's PC's are a perfect alternative, and thus Apple has seen an 'explosive' increase in Mac sales.

The newest seed is said to add a list view to stacks, numerous fixes including specifically to CoreGraphics, BackupCore, DVD Playback, File Systems and Web Content Filter. These are the kind of changes which make Apple that little bit different, and ensured that previous OS's were solid pieces of software, even at the end of their lifecycles. However, noticeably absent is the rumoured AirDisk backups, which were even a feature of the beta versions.

Perhaps Apple are keeping some of the bigger updates for the next seed. We shall see, but the improvements will only help to make Leopard into a more appealing operating system...

Written by Will on January 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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