Well, I must say I’m stating to really like the new OS! The only really bad thing that I can say is that I’m starting to see the need for more RAM. With iTunes, Mail and Safari open and running, everything’s fine… even with Time Machine, Quicksilver, Twitterific and iClip running in the background. With all that going, I accidentally opened a movie file with QuickTime. The music coming from iTunes started stuttering and I saw in the system monitor that the CPU was going bonkers trying to multitask two media players with the added strain of everything else. Free memory blocks were non-existent.

With the ugliness out of the way, here’s my list of the good and the bad:

GOOD
- Faster startup time
- Dock functionality (the new Dock kinda grew on me!)
- Time Machine makes backing up your computer a no-brainer (literally!)
- Spaces: the less memory-intensive alternative to VirtueDesktops
- More ways to organize your stuff
- System Preferences is even more user-friendly, especially with networking and sharing
- Oh, and Screen Sharing: when you have to help a friend understand what to do.

BAD
- Quick Look uses waaaaay too much RAM and CPU for mostly eye candy; use it sparingly and when needed.
- No way to modify scheduling of TM backups (unless you do some Terminal diving!)
- Folders look very drab (but it is fixable!)
- The wireless Mouse and keyboard are acting a little weird. Hoping for an update soon to fix this!

I’ll talk more in-depth tomorrow, hopefully!

Update: I was slightly off what Quick Look really is. What I meant is really about CoverFlow in the Finder using too much RAM (CoverFlow really IS eye-candy!). Quick Look is just another way to inspect files in the finder without opening another app, and it can be invoked with the space bar when you have a file selected in any view mode. It really is another “plus” to be added above!

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