Bitten by the Leopard

If you haven't seen it by now the Ars Technica review of Leopard, as always John Siracusa is on the money.

I just jumped in and upgraded, my MBP isn't that old and anyway I had a backup of all my important files so I'd be OK if it bailed. I'd seen that a few people had a "blue screen issue" after the upgrade so I was a little cautious.

The changes are subtle enough not to bother you too much coming from tiger. The curved menus caught my eye a few times, they look quite different especially how the hover doesn't quite line up on the bottom of the menu. anyhow moving on...

Pros

1. Cover flow in the finder is cool ( it works the machine though, my fans spin up )
2. Overall it feels snappier - I always thought Tiger was a bit lazy
3. Spaces - about bloody time Apple! we had them in Linux ten years ago!! Spaces is well executed.
4. Consistent application windows. I never liked all the different styles of windows.
   
   

Cons

1. The transparent top menu is pretty stupid, way too hard to read. ( you can turn it off with a hack thankfully )
2. The dock reflection is great but the little blue light isn't distinct enough, while I hated the little black arrow, its better than this blue orb.
3. The finder folders are a bit ugly and harder to spot than the tiger equivalents since they are subtly embossed.
4. No Java 6 included, please Apple can you at least tell us when? Hopefully it'll be in the next major update.

Overall though I find Leopard to be the best thing my MacBook has ever tasted. I need some time to test time machine and the other new features. I'll post more once I have.