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hey guys John here with a guest long overdue review of the new operating system for Apple computers Leopard first thing before I get started is this isn't gonna be a video demonstration of the features there have been copious other videos that have done that and probably better than I could ever do so up here I'm going to put some links that'll give you some video demonstration of the features I'm gonna talk about this video we're just gonna be my impressions of the operating system as a whole having used it since launch day so first thing I'll talk about and I'm the maniac everybody wants to know is stability in all the time that I've had Leopard now it's been coming up on a month it hasn't crashed shopping once the computer has been rock solid with rock salt with Tiger 2 but things just feel a little zippier the boot up time is a little bit slower probably about 3 or 4 seconds slower but the operating system operating system itself has just been been really quick once it's loaded up so if you're worried about stability with new operating system don't worry it isn't Vista not a knock on Microsoft it's just apples all west's aren't playing just some issues that that Microsoft's are so some of the first some of the cool features and the big features don't talk a little bit about the smaller ones the first big one and the one that I use all the time actually have needed to use two time machine so what Time Machine is essentially its automated backup so we need to have an order to make Time Machine work you need to have an external hard drive that's bigger than your internal drive on your computer and one thing to note when you activate time machine and leopard it'll delete all the content off of your external drive so just be aware of that firsthand and what it does is it gives you a three-dimensional view of your desktop so let's say you are working in Microsoft Word and you had all your Word document saved in a Word documents folder on your desktop and I'll say you actually deleted a file well you can actually open up that folder click time machine you'll get a three-dimensional view of all the folders going back and you can go back to wherever that document was before you lost it click it hit restore and it's back that's it and everything is totally automated you don't have to do anything as soon as you plug in your external drive the operating system ask you if you want to activate Time Machine you hit yes and that's it that's all you got to do my 500 gigabyte my book that I would using has been awesome I recommend it if you looking for external hard drive otherwise I've heard all have been pretty good so that's just that no time machine has been a really really really good future feature I had a paper I was working on that forever reason I ended up I was tired it was light and ended up deleting a paragraph I didn't want to delete and I saved it and closed it I realized it the next morning and as it would use time machine to bring back an old version of a document open up that paragraph paste it right back in so I can already attest to how good Time Machine is and I'm sure as things go on I'm only gonna be happy with it find more uses for it so time machine highly recommended I think that alone is worth the cost of the operating system the next cool thing is something called spaces and what spaces is essentially um because virtualized desktops so let's say you are downloading music from itunes browsing the web and you're editing of your editing a video and it's processing we can do now is have a separate workspace for each you activate spaces I think you can hit ctrl and the arrow keys and a trend space is on and it actually filters through your desktop gives you an icon on your screen of how many desktops you have and you can just drag and drop different windows into different virtual spaces I think that's the one that thing that this review you know could probably probably use and check out the video for review of spaces I hope you guys out hope you guys out a lot so spaces is a great feature I haven't really used it that much because I have the dual screens but if I didn't have dual screens I could see spaces being a really really really great feature there so if you're traveling one of the next cool things other than spaces to know is a new i chat i chat as a messaging client that comes built in and that has some really cool features actually I've got a list here like in hope you guys with a little bit so so some of the cool stuff with I chat you get new photobooth effects so you can set up background in the back make it look like you're underwater on a roller coaster all kinds of really cool stuff one of the nice features is this thing called screen sharing and you really what you can do is you can collaborate with a friend right over iChat you can work on anything you want whether it's a presentation in keynote or PowerPoint and you invite the other person to a connection actually brings up their desktop on your screen and you can share it similar to like PC anywhere or remote remote desktop but just really easy to do and they can do it with Mac to Mac you know which makes it really easy color back so that's one of the really cool features with with iChat is that the screen sharing thing it's got a lot of other - you can record now yourself and iChat you can use multiple logins you can make yourself look invisible you get animated buddy icons there's a I chat theater you can show nearly any file on your system through an iChat video conference so if you're giving a presentation for work or something or school you kind of have everybody logged in via I Chad you can show um your keynote or PowerPoint presentation any way that can be a real handy feature - so those are some of the biggest features I think with leopard new in addition there's a three-dimensional dock and kind of some cursory stuff but overall there are 300 plus new features and those are the highlights of them you know there's a Google map addresses in your address book there's new stuff with AppleScript Automator is updated boot camp is now out of beta and officially part of Leopard so if you want to run boot camp now you have to have leopard and check out my video on boot camp vs. parallels and tell you what boot camp is this actually allows you to run Windows XP or Vista on your your Mac natively and again you need a full install disk Vista or XP doesn't come with bootcamp dashboard is now updated to use this thing called web clips you can clip out any portion of a web page and just drag it off the dashboard to make it a widget and whenever that page gets updated it'll show up on dashboard it's actually really cool if you look at if you look at my page and you look at Echo fishes pages we look at the gadget or ESPN you can clip those now right to dashboard open up dashboard and see if any of us have anything new that you want to see so that's kind of neat and I guess one of the last feature that I use a lot is the same called stacks and what stacks is it's you can really organize all your files into early nice needs deck and one-click and the stack kind opens up and it really opens up a kind of a straight file you can just open anything anything you want so I've I go to some pictures a lot so I set up by pictures folder as a stack and it's really handy you can do it as a list review all your icons at once so you can store them you can download stacks it's really easy there's also a new front row the front row is very similar to the front row on appletv it looks just the same now so I mean that's nice I really like the way that looks there's a lot of graphics and media stuff updated too there's new core animations and updated OpenGL there's new stuff in iCal and I'll post some links again over there to list some of the new features there's some stuff for you know and analyzing templates and mail has new features it's got our email it's got new stationery new RSS readers photo booth has the new effects in there too it's kind of a updating interface that's nice to be you to go to booth and the last thing I almost forgot to mention is this thing called quick view actually what I use one things I use most in Leopard if you're ever going through a huge list of files and you want to see which one it is you can click on it and your spacebar opens up quick view it actually opens up the document that opening up the program so if you have an Adobe program it'll open it that opening up you know Photoshop whatever it is you see the document looks like but weird documents or open up keynote presentation you can see what it is really neat highly recommend er a picture you click the picture hit space and opens up the picture so I think that's very worthwhile anyway guys sorry I couldn't show videos and demonstrations here YouTube is gonna cut me off in just a minute keep it under 10 so I thought you guys know so the new features in addition coverflow you can sort documents to get coverflow like you can in itunes so i was just a quick summation of leopard overall I'm very happy with it certainly worth the upgrade anyway guys enjoy have a nice afternoon or evening or ever you're at any guys I'll talk to you later bye