I watched the guided tour and I have some complaints about Apple’s new OS already. Minor annoyances, to be sure, but I expect Apple to pay attention to such details.
- The look and feel is closer, but still not completely consistent: Preview and Mail don’t have the same kind of toolbar buttons as Address Book, Safari, and Finder.
- Some windows (the opening progress bar, time machine hard drive insert dialog box) don’t have a unified sunken interface. I guess I’ll be keeping UNO around after all.
- Some windows show toolbar names and icons, while others only show icons. That’s still an application preference, not a global one.
- Scroll bars look like candy and haven’t been updated to the iTunes 7, which would be more appropriate.
- Cover Flow scroll bars don’t conform to the system scroll bar preference.
Update: Walt has delivered his verdict: “Not revolutionary, but it beats Vista.” (via PC World)