Apple ship Mac OS X 10.5 tomorrow, hot on the heels of fantastic results, as sharply written up by John Gruber. I don't think I'm going to make it to the launch event tomorrow, but will be getting Leopard pretty soon. The guided tour is pretty informative, standouts for me from the video are Time Machine, Cover Flow and Quick Look. The ability to look inside files without waiting for applications to launch will be super. Time Machine solves a hard problem in backups, giving you the ability to head back to a single file, without reverting the entire disk to that state. The integration with individual applications looks clever too, hopefully it will be simple to integrate this with non-Apple applications.
The sharing tools in iChat look really smart and Spaces seems like a clean implementation of the unix virtual desktop metaphor. There is also a ton of developer level updates in this release from improved Automator and Applescript to Ruby on Rails as a shipping tool.
For a bit of fun I have a nice picture of a Leopard who is just waiting for your captions too.
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apple, macosx, leopard, caption competition
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