Leopard coming soon!

My box with "Leopard Family Pack" should be arriving today. I don't know when I'll have time to upgrade my Macs because I'm depending on available, stable systems (my laptop will probably the first - I use it the least).

Some of the improvements I'll care/note care about:

• Spaces, a feature I'm really looking forward to as I've been using virtual desktops for years on Linux
• Mail.app improvements, especially. the option to store notes
• Time Machine. May come in handy though it's a bit too hyped. It simply incrementally backups changes and has a way too fancy UI on top of it
• Don't care about iChat improvements, I don't use it because it lacks mainstream protocols such as MSN. I'd wish I had the choice not to use MSN, but unfortunately, the rest of the world uses it.
• Finder.. people have been complaining it sucks for years, but I'm a command-line guy anyway - I do most of my filemanagement in Terminal.app. But perhaps this'll change with the new Finder, who knows.
• ZFS, too bad it's not yet supported (what use is read-only support?). I had hoped that with all the Leopard delays, it would be available in a stable, read/write version. Now I will have to reinstall again once the support becomes available.
  

macrumours has an overview

the lame leopard real life issues from an experienced OSX user/developer

osxfactor minor shortcomings imho.

No wireless Time Machine backups in Leopard - and it sounded like a really cool feature. Lots of people are frustrated about this last minute decision

An overview of less-hyped new features

When you shouldn't upgrade

I think upgrading any of my systems is too risky right now, mostly because I'm not sure if MacPorts will still work. I just purchased a 160GB Lacie usb disk (2.5") so I'll try an install on that disk first.