The Good
- Appletalk:
Ah hah! Via the "Go" menu, you can easily connect to an AFP Server
and make use of this fine protocol.
- Dock:
Well, of course, there's the nice bouncing start-up icons, the
easier to see triangles for active apps, and the dividing bar for
apps and documents and active windows,
but you can also now add documents directly to the dock for
future reference.
(Thanks to Eric for pointing that out.)
- iDisk
support is smooth and requires no extra software.
- Installations:
Installations are just another process that runs along side
other processes. Surfing the web while installing -
what a concept.
- Keyboards:
Dvorak/International finally working in Terminal program
- Multiple button
mice/trackballs 'just work' with contextual menus.
- Music player:
runs like a dream. Reasonable feature set, and never skips
MP3s or CDs/AIFFs even under heavy system use.
- Scroll wheels
seems to work fine (without any extra software needed)
with all Cocoa apps. (Works at least in: OmniWeb, Terminal, Mail...
and doesn't work in, say, IE.)
Within one Cocoa app, the scrolling happens to the window
(or browser frame) that you hover over, you don't have to have
that window brought to the foreground first.
All that being said, it doesn't work in finder windows :-( .
- SSH
built-in to system! (saving many install headaches)
Specifically, it's OpenSSH 2.1.1, protocol vers 1.5/2.0.
- Terminal:
(of which I'll have more to say later...) Among other things,
the paste function in the terminal window works fine (it was a
disaster to paste with line breaks in OS X Server).
- Uptime:
No crashes since install on Sept 23rd (ok, no big deal yet...)
- Volume Indexing:
You can index any user's directory, and any pre-OSX drive,
but not such things as the root (/) dir, the /System dir and such.
It's also nice that dragging a new folder into Sherlock auto-indexes.
In sum: less indexing than OS9, but more than on OSX Server (there was none).
Still, they indexed the important stuff, which means faster finds in general.
- Wake-up time
does indeed seem to sit at around 1 second.
(Actually, my monitor seems to take 1 second, and the OS is happily waiting.)
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The Bad
- Appletalk:
Well, you can connect to servers fine, but you can't connect
to another Mac using Appletalk just yet. Can't even see the
local network, it seems.
... But there's more: There seems to be nothing analogous to
"recent servers", either in the "connect to server" menu selection
or elsewhere. It seems one could easily add this feature by adding
a directory "Recent Servers" under the /Network directory.
At any rate, despite being able to drag an alias of a mounted
volume onto the document side of the Dock, this will not call up
that server when double-clicking it. Seems like the GUI thing to do.
- Clippings:
Their location and window sizing information is lost each time
you open a clipping.
- Dock:
Minimize more than about 10 windows and you realize that there
needs to be some kind of dock management. Ideas include multiple
docks, tabbed docks, one dock for apps one for windows -
something supplimental is needed. The dock is great, but needs
some orginizational tools.
- Dvorak keyboard:
while you're able to revert to qwerty for control keys,
it doesn't do it for command / apple keys, which is a pain in the butt.
(Oddly enough, it does correctly map the command keys while in the Finder.)
- Location Manager:
Missing!! This is a big minus for laptop owners.
- Multiple Monitors:
Support is hit or miss, it seems.
- Tear-off Menus:
They were in there in Server, but sorely missed in Beta. Whywhywhy...
- Window Resizing
can no longer be done by grabbing any ol' edge (as with OS X Server).
Why not even as an option??
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