Apple offers a preview of its upcoming OS
The most interesting new feature of Leopard is its automatic backup system, Time Machine. "With Mac OS X Leopard and Time Machine, not only can you back up and preserve everything on your Mac including priceless digital photos, music, movies, and documents without lifting a finger, you can go back in time to recover anything you've ever backed up," Apple's says on it's page on Mac OS X Leopard. "With Time Machine, you can restore your whole system from any past backups and peruse the past with ease. Can't find a file you want? Enter Time Machine's time-based browser to see a snapshot of how your entire system looked on any given day file by file. When you find the file you want, just select it and restore it."
Many of the enhancements are sensible and welcome virtual desktop or workspaces, an improved email client with features that it has been missing: additions of RSS support, email templates, notes, and to do's and native support by all libraries and frameworks for 64-bit applications. Apple will also include BootCamp, new software that lets users install and run Windows XP, with Leopard.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. However, these lacklustre new features left many disappointed. "...not only are these features far from sensational, they're not particularly original, either," writes Andrew Orlowski of The Register. "We were reminded of the over-stretched claims made for the current version, Tiger, where Apple added each new desktop wallpaper picture to the tally of improvements."
These aren't going to be the only new features of the next version of Mac OS X. Apple's CEO hinted that some features may be disclosed nearer the launch next spring: "There are some top secret features we're going to keep a little close to the vest." Of course, it's far too early to judge Apple's upcoming operating system, but unless the promised "top-secret" features are something highly exciting, even some Mac enthusiasts wouldn't feel Leopard justifies a 129 dollar upgrade.
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