October 2007

I watched the guided tour and I have some complaints about Apple's new OS already. Minor annoyances, to be sure, but I expect Apple to pay attention to such details.

1. The look and feel is closer, but still not completely consistent: Preview and Mail don't have the same kind of toolbar buttons as Address Book, Safari, and Finder.
2. Some windows (the opening progress bar, time machine hard drive insert dialog box) don't have a unified sunken interface. I guess I'll be keeping UNO around after all.
3. Some windows show toolbar names and icons, while others only show icons. That's still an application preference, not a global one.
4. Scroll bars look like candy and haven't been updated to the iTunes 7, which would be more appropriate.
5. Cover Flow scroll bars don't conform to the system scroll bar preference.

Update: Walt has delivered his verdict: “Not revolutionary, but it beats Vista.” (via PC World)

Firefox ran at 102% of my CPU today, according to Activity Monitor. I'm not sure how that is possible, but the audible increase in fan activity was the first indicator. The same thing happened at work today too. Then, I thought it was because I had so many tabs open. And when it happened just now, I discovered I had opened a tab with a movie in it. But then, I clicked on Help to see if there was a Feature Request button, and I saw that Firefox was downloading an update. Still, it brought my processor to a halt with whatever it wanted. It makes me (once again) consider switching to something Mac-native. Oh, how I would miss my extensions.