Not so long after PC World proclaimed the MacBook Pro the fastest Vista notebook, we have a very positive Leopard review. They love it. They really do, more than Vista (yes, I’m setting the bar low).
it’s by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value—like truly automated backups, document and spreadsheet preview images in folders, and notes and to-do lists integrated into the mail program. Propeller-heads with IT know-how will no doubt hold up Linux as the better choice, and Vista has its devotees as well(and will probably have more when SP1 is widely available), but, for the average user, Leopard is the most polished and easiest to use OS I’ve tested.
The review goes on to list a whole bunch of “glitches” which are constituted by the author not liking the way stacks worked (doesn’t matter if it was intended behavior, anything that wasn’t to his liking was a “glitch”), Windows Address Book data not being recognized as a particular filetype (which, according to the author is indicative of Apple QA), and the Disk Utility showing partition sizes a little inaccurately (even though it worked correctly). Then he complains about the eye candy (no problems with performance, just hand wringing).
Despite much of the review being rather asinine quibbling, he still concludes that it’s better than Vista, and to some degree, that’s all that matters.
What happened to those features that were kept secret until Leopard was actually released?