Tiger to Leopard

I already owned a Mac before Leopard jumped over IT world. I had Tiger running on two Minis. I wasn't inclined to updrage this machines to Leopard, as many people did with their old hardware the day when Leopard arrived. But after I've got MacBook with Leopard preinstalled, I can say that new cat is definitely more advanced than its predecessor.

I like new sidebars in Finder and Mail. I love the new Preview with Cover Flow. I kinda like how the new Dock looks like. Transparent menu bar is reminding me Vista's Aero, but it is still less annoying. I don't use a Time Machine, because with standard hard drive it is meaningless (and I suppose that synchronizing VmWare's virtual machines is not what I really want). But some new features are really, really slick.

As much as I was addicted to Exposé and Dashboard in Tiger, I was instantly hooked by Spaces and Stacks. These two concepts are not at all new, they were done many times before Leopard, but in Leopard, they are as polished as only Mac app can be. No bloat, maximum comfort, aesthetic pleasure. Now if they only could implement something Quicksilver-like ;)

And out-of-the-box support for Ruby and RoR in Xcode is really surprising. It makes the fact that RoR developers are mostly Mac users pretty unsurprising :)