So my copy of Leopard came yesterday. I promptly installed it and I've been poking at it since. I've come up with a little list of the things that have impressed me thus far.
Terminal.app is now a first class terminal. I has all the useful features of Gnome Terminal, with OS X styling. Tabs, a full list of terminals to emulate (even ddterm), and a usable preference dialog.
Vim 7.0 installed by default. Along with the most recent version of many other handy things.
Spaces is nothing new to the Linux desktop user, but is implemented very well. The animations between desktops aren't distracting, and moving apps around is fun. Simple to set an app to a default space. Bonus: when I open a URL from the terminal or other app it moves me to the space my browser is in to view it. Handy.
Time Machine is running on my external drive, taking up about 30 GB of space. It doesn't need the whole drive, so my other stuff is fine. I really don't have a big need yet, but I'm sure it'll come in handy.
Stacks are a useful addition, gives me a nice quick way to get to often used folders without opening finder.
Quick preview in finder with the spacebar is amazing. Very fast to load, and is really quite handy.
Overall the look has been brought together well, and it is very polished. A lot of little things in preferences and dialogs have been improved to make everything just flow better.
I'm very impressed thus far.
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