My new secondary/primary? OS (Caused by Danny xD)

Not a lot going on at my blog, right? But in excuse the only thing I can say is that there aren’t many things happening @ hikkys otaku home at them moment. As my readers know, I’m studying for my exams, so I have not much time to think about things I can blog about.

(I’m sry once again it’s not Anime/Manga/Merchandise/… related orz, but besides 3,2GB C74 Dojinshi lying around here there aren’t many things worth mentioning.)

But there is something I would like to mention:

Ohhhh I’m using Mac OS 10.5.4 now!

Yus, a windows “fanboy” @ Apples OS

Read more after the jump… (Apple Users may skip this Blogentry, nothing but old news. For those who would like to have this wallpaper-pack: Click! & Click!)

After seeing several  figure reviews by Tokios Trooper Leader No. 1 with a shiny Leopard desktop in the background over the months I wanted to try this OS myself.

As I don’t want to be the protagonist in an public execution at the next Macworld, please don’t ask how, but as you can see above Leopard is running flawlessly at my PC, nearly out of the box.

It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy.

right? xD

I’m using Leo for a week now and until I have to say: Great job, Apple!

The first thing I noticed after the “switch” besides the cool look is …. the speed!

I’m not going to say Vista is that slow. But using a system rated 5,4 @ Vista Ultimate x64 (AMD X2 6000+ 3GHz, ASUS M2N32-SLI Vista Premium Ed., Zotac Geforce 8800 GTS 512 (G92), 4GB OCZ DDR2 800) and using the same system with Leopard I can say this operating system is a Formula 1 car while Vista seems to be a family wagon. Although Vista has a index-based search function Leopards Finder is several times faster (and you can even use it as calculator xD ).

Microsoft,  please build Windows 7 Unix based lol, just kidding.

The next important thing for me is TIME MACHINE!

Time Machine is Apples built-in backup solution. Time Machine backs up your system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on a given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.

Vista has a function like that called “Volumenschattenkopie” … English Vista using readers help me, how is it called in English?

But its not as well working and easy/convenient to use as Time Machine.

The really cool thing is that you can restore your system on every hardisk if somthing is broken. You just have to boot from the OS X DVD, go to Utilities>Disk Utility>Time Machine Backup. At Vista for example you have to create a Complete PC Backup which isn’t always up to date of course.

The next useful things are Exposé & Places.

With Spaces you can group your application windows at “four desktops”. I haven’t used this feature a lot until now, but it is quiet useful. With Exposé you can hide your application windows to do things on your desktop, highlight a window, or show all windows minimized together (something like Vista Flip 3D but without having to scroll trough all windows). Exposé can also be activated by moving the mouse to a corner of the desktop using a feature called Active Screen Corners. Very useful.

Another feature you can open with an Active Screen Corner is the so called Dashboard.

It lets you arrange useful gadgets, which can be found on the net.

The most useful thing in my opinion is a gadget to show a part of a web site which is important to you, for example the news section @ DC. You can specify the section as you wish @ Safari. (I’m using Firefox 3 @ OSX btw)

Most of you know the Coverflow feature from Itunes. (I think I have to edit my mp3 tags cause Itunes doesn’t use folder.jpg and cover.jpg files)

With Leopard you have a Coverflow-view in every Explorer.. sry Finder-window.

The coolest thing is you can preview files and look at them by pressing the Space-bar!!!

ohhh Haruka is toooo  moe for this world <333

ährm… back to the topic: You can view documents for example *pdfs, video files and so on, isn’t that cool?

Although some things look quiet familiar lol, thx Adobe.

There are lots of things I could mention but those 300 new features in Leopard would take a while and would cause hundreds of writing/grammar mistakes ^_^

So will there be a battle at my PC: Vista vs Leopard?

The answer is

I think Leopard and Vista is the best combination you can have! Using the best software from the two worlds is better than sticking with one operating system.

The only problem is that real Apple hardware is so expensive. Besides the case it’s normal cheap hardware!

But my next PC which is honored to stand next to my towers is a Mac Mini! Not that expensive but powerful enough for Leopard / Snow Leopard iMac 24″, maybe.

At the moment I’m looking for Mac software, Keynote for example is really cool, I’ll never use Powerpoint again.

The only things I’m missing now is something like Winamp for OS X (Itunes is just … ) and a free blogging software (writing this @ Vista@ Windows Livewriter).And OS X doesn’t recognize my Creative Zen Vision M 60GB and receiving/sending mails with Apple Mail just works soso with the help of little programms.

Help is appreciated