Unfortunately, that aesthetic choice comes at too steep a price: the areas of light and dark behind the menu bar can severely decrease the readability of menu items.Īpple has modified the Dock, OS X’s built-in program launcher, so that the Dock’s icons appear to sit on a reflective glass tray when the Dock is positioned on the bottom of the screen. When the desktop is set to display an image with both light and dark areas, the see-through menu bar is visually striking. The Mac’s trademark menu bar, which spans the top of the screen, has been made semi-transparent. Unfortunately, some of the changes are not as successful. When it comes to folders containing lots of documents, Stacks is not as useful. Sure, some items on Apple’s list of 300 features might seem inconsequential, but if even a handful of them hit you where you live, that will be more than enough motivation for you to upgrade. Instead, it’s the sheer deluge of new features that’s likely to persuade most active Mac users to upgrade, especially since this is the longest gap between OS X upgrades - two and a half years - since the product was introduced.
Leopard is, at once, a major alteration to the Mac interface, a sweeping update to numerous included productivity programs, a serious attempt to improve Mac OS security, and a vast collection of tweaks and fixes scattered throughout every nook and cranny of the operating system.Īs with every OS X update since version 10.1, there’s no single feature in Leopard that will force Mac users to upgrade immediately. The fifth major update to Mac OS X, Leopard, contains such a mountain of features - more thanģ00 by Apple’s count - that it’s difficult to boil this $129 operating system release down to a few easy bullet points.
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