April 18, 2007
MacFixit spills the beans on new Leopard features
Posted Apr. 18, ’07, 5:20 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Speculation
You may want to rush over and read MacFixit’s piece on troubleshooting advances in Leopard before either it gets forced down by Apple or it disappears into MacFixit’s for-pay archives. For posterity (for free), here’s a quick summation:
Software Update will force users to quit all open applications before many software updates will commence. Good for troubleshooting, inconvenient for edge-dwellers like me. Activity Monitor increases the prominence of the process sampling function. I’m sure Brent Simmons is thrilled. Spotlight will help search help documentation and menus (to find buried menu items). Dashboard will lump all widgets into a single process instead of the one a piece method currently employed. Take that memory usage! It also pushes developers to use new tools to minimize legacy and workaround issues.
It’s pretty daring for MF to be so open about what may very well be some of the top secret new features (someone please reassure me tiny improvements like these are not all we have to look forward to). The Dashboard optimization has got me the most excited because all that overhead really takes away from the point of the software to begin with: quick access to specific functions.
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I really hope that this kind of stuff is not what Steve was talking about when he said top secret features. There's really no reason to keep this secret, and wasn't the whole point of not revealing features to stop Microsoft from doing some late Vista implementation? I think the features will me more along the lines of new applications like Spaces.
Yeah, those are lame secret features. If the secret features exist, they'll be big enough to wow some people (at least for a few hours).