



4. 64-bit top to bottom - Apple is supporting 64-bit in Leopard from apps to drivers (and presumably beyond). Leopard should run on most Tiger-supporting Macs, just in case you were wondering if the lack of a 64-bit processor in your current Mac (i.e. Core Duo or Core Solo) would lock you out of using the new OS. So don't chuck that first-gen MacBook just yet.



5. Core Animation - Same song as last year, but enough crowd pleasing effects to make it worth a second gander.



6. Boot Camp - Sadly, there aren't any surprise Parallels-killing functions here, but the lack of need to burn a drivers CD should take this one out of the hax0rs' court and see more users taking advantage of it. Also, it will supposedly feature faster switching between from OS X by using the hibernate / safe-sleep feature to keep "open" running apps when jumping over to Windows.



7. Spaces - Once again, not much new here, but it does turn out that you can have more than four Spaces, the number of 'em is user configurable.



8. Dashboard - Yeah, 10 new features? Not so much. Web Clip still sounds fun.



9. iChat - Now features tabbed chats and uses AAC for audio, along with those other fancy features like Photo Booth effects mentioned last year. You can also show off any Quick Look-supported document over a chat, movies included.



10. Time Machine - Backup for noobs, and previews in Quick Look



So no multi-touch interfacing or anything fancy like that, but still a crowd-pleasing offering. $129 and she's yours, come October.