Some problems but overall, pretty good.

My first few days with Leopard have gone off without a hitch though there are some things that I just have to complain about:

• That transparent menu bar is not a good idea. It looks horrible. I’ve taken to drawing a black bar behind whatever it is I choose to use as a desktop because I can’t stand it. Really a bad choice.
• Had some problems setting up mail with Mail.app for Signal Response. It’s solved now, but it was driving me nuts. It would hang when trying to connect to the server, like, forever.
• Really, really upset that you cannot name Spaces. In Virtue Desktops, you could name each “screen” whatever you wanted and have it display that name. In Spaces, you can’t. I prefer to have apps in different spaces so it’s quicker for me to work. I put Coda and TextMate on one screen that I would call Code, CSSEdit on another screen called CSS, all the CS3 apps on separate screens named after each app and so on and so on. Now, I have a difficult time recognizing what each one is though I should just get used to using Apple -Tab.
• Some really weird screen redraw issues. Don’t know what’s going on there. Happens in the dock every once and a while and that is also infuriating.
• Really messed up problems in Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. Some of the menus get blacked out or don’t draw. Some of the text fields will occasionally refuse to be typed into. Just odd things that I’m hoping will be patched soon.

Things I love about Leopard:

• Totally happy with the unified interface. Thank god. No more brushed metal.
• New Terminal is awesome. Yeah, I know, Terminal.
• Dragging tabs in Safari draws an image of the page you’re moving. Like in CSSEdit. Really a neat trick. Not useful really, but neat.
• Dragging windows to the edge of the screen will move them to another Space. Dragging windows into alternate Spaces in the Spaces view.
• Windows networking. Way better.
• Preview steps it up a notch. Not an Acrobat notch, but a notch none the less.
• Stacks, at least in grid view is awesome. I really like that.
• Actually find I’m using Cover Flow view quite a bit in the Finder. Doesn’t show previews of InDesign files but it’s actually not bad.

There are other things that are pretty cool about it but everything is already all over the internet about it so, if you were interested, you could find it. For an awesome if slightly geeky review, see John Siracusa’s review here. For a hilarious review from PC Mag that pretty much says Leopard is “by far the best operating system ever written”, see here.