James Kim wrote:1. Support for 64-bit architecture, extend 64-bit support through Carbon and Cocoa, can run 32 bit side-by-side with 64-bit apps.
2. New feature called Time Machine. Automatically backs up all your valuable data. If you change a file, that file is automatically backed up. You can back up to hard drive or server, plus a whole new way to back up. Now demoing Time Machine. You literally fly through time as windows pass by with space in the background. Cute but also useful.
3. Shipping Boot Camp with Leopard. Also ships Front Row in Leopard and Photo Booth.
4. Spaces. New feature that links apps together to make it less comlicated so you can, for example, zip to different spaces--shows demo of switching between browser/mail, to Garage Band.
5. Spotlight: Improving so you can search other machines on a network. You can also search servers, and advanced search--Boolean, etc. Application launcher and adding recent items.
6. Core animation (one person claps). Dramatically improves the production quality of your work, scene of layers.
7. Universal Access. Making Mac OS X available to everyone with support for close caption, Braille support, VoiceOver.
8. Improvement to mail. New features include Stationary, Notes, and To Do. Stationary features templates and you can make your own. Templates appear as a drop-down menu in Mail, with all types templates and you can add your own images--very intuitive. Notes is a dedicated area for taking notes and show up as an Inbox item. To Do adds check boxes to any note. You can select any e-mail or any application to add a to-do note. In other words, a system-wide to-do service.
9. Dashboard. More than 2,500 widgets available today. Two new things. First, a new developer tool called Dashcode, where you can modify existing templates. Visual editor for CSS and HTML, and also ships with JavaScript debugger. Second thing is for the end user: Web clip. Allows anyone to turn any part of any Web page into a widget. For example, you can cut out a comic strip and turn it into a widget--very cool. Plus, it will update automatically. You can also capture the area of an eBay auction and monitor that; basically, you can create your own widgets and it's incredibly powerful. You can even create a widget out of any Web cam.
10. iChat. Serious enhancements: invisibility; video recording; tab chats; animated icons. Plus, photo booth effects to video conferencing and iChat Theater. Jobs demos iChat Theater and brings up photo slideshow inside iChat--very cool. You can also up a Keynote presentation; basically, you can use iChat to share media and presentations. Finally, you can add backdrops to your iChat conversations.
Personally I find the improvements to Spotlight and the Time Machine file recovery services to be the best perks. Currently I'd need a separate machine acting as a directory server to use Windows' shadow copy service.
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