The Leopard Spot

Countdown of Leopard's Top 10 Features

10. BOOT CAMP Leopard is the world's most advanced operating system. So advanced, it even lets you run Windows if there's a PC application you need to use. Just get a copy of Windows and start up Boot Camp, now included with Leopard. Setup is simple and straightforward—just as you'd expect with a Mac.

9. PARENTAL CONTROLS As a parent, you want your kids to have a safe and happy experience on the computer. Leopard keeps an eye out even when you can't. With a simple setup, you can manage, monitor, and control the time your kids spend on the Mac, the sites they visit, and the people they chat with.

8. SAFARI Now your favorite web browser is also the fastest on the Mac. With page load speeds that outperform every other major browser on the Mac, Safari for Leopard also introduces a few new features to the mix. Easily find inline text, unleash new tabbed browsing features, take advantage of new PDF controls, create widgets from websites, and much more.

7. SPACES You do a lot on your Mac. So how do you keep order when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your application windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a space for everything and makes it easy to switch between your spaces.

6. iCHAT Filled with fun new features, iChat turns any video chat into an event. Video backdrops, Photo Booth effects, photo slideshows, Keynote presentations, even movies on your Mac—you can share it all using iChat.

5. MAIL Leopard transforms e-mail into personalized stationery. Notes you can access anywhere. To-dos that change as your errands do. For everything you do with e-mail—and some things you haven't thought of yet—there's Mail. And now you can set up a new Mail account in one easy step. Just enter your current e-mail address and password and let Mail do the rest. (Simple setup only works with select e-mail providers, such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail.)

4. TIME MACHINE Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that's built right into Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac—digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything. (Time Machine requires an external hard drive.)

3. QUICK LOOK Using Quick Look in Leopard, you can view the contents of a file without even opening it. Flip through multipage documents. Watch full-screen video. See entire Keynote presentations. With a single click.

2. FINDER Now browsing the files on your Mac is as easy as browsing music in iTunes. That's the idea behind the new Finder in Leopard. You can access everything on your system by flipping through your files using Cover Flow or by clicking items in an iTunes-style sidebar.

1. DESKTOP Now browsing the files on your Mac is as easy as browsing music in iTunes. That's the idea behind the new Finder in Leopard. You can access everything on your system by flipping through your files using Cover Flow or by clicking items in an iTunes-style sidebar.

And now, without further ado, may we present Leopard ...