Mac OS X.2: the cat’s out of the box!

I got my copy of Jaguar from Amazon about, what, 2 weeks after everyone else did (boo Amazon!) and installed it with little delay. So far I like what I see a lot, tons of little improvements here and there and a big speed difference on my iBook.

Windows scroll faster, Web pages render faster, apps launch quicker.

iChat is interesting, but I’m probably going to switch back to Adium soon for their richer feature set.

I’m not using the Address Book or Mail because I’ve got Entourage. The brushed aluminum look of iChat, iTunes, & Quicktime, et. al. is bugging me…I prefer the striped grey lines. I might have to install Metallifizer (thx jf) to bring that soothing grey to all of my Cocoa apps.

The sharing with my Linux box via Samba seems smoother.

Smoother? Fonts? Yes. Nice.

My favorite little tweak is the flattening of all the form elements: buttons, pulldowns, scrollbars, &c. It’s such a tiny improvement, but they were just too 3-D and gaudy before; they dialed it down just enough to fix it.

Sherlock 3 is a bit of a disappointment. The flight tracking and yellow pages are nice, but the movie listings are inferior to those of Watson. And I want a stand alone maps feature, not just directions to businesses through the yellow pages.

Anything else I should be noticing/checking out with Jaguar?

(And I apologize for the title of the post.)