First Impressions: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: DESKTOP and FINDER

Here's a short rundown of some of the new features introduced in Leopard ;)

a NEW Desktop!
"Just one look at the desktop in Mac OS X Leopard says you’ve arrived someplace new. From the menu bar to the stunning new Dock, Leopard is designed to help you enjoy the time you spend at your computer — and help you get more out of it." -from apple.com

so what is new to it's desktop.. a transparent menu bar (but I don't really like it.. and my Powerbook G4 had the Opaque menu bar hehe so I guess it's the Video card.. at least it knows how to adjust to the system ;P), a 3D Dock, and Stacks (which I really really like)

Desktop showing Stacks
What Stacks do is that it "spring loads" user created folders right on the dock for easier access. By default, the stacks upon install is the download folder. You can make as many stacks as you like ;)

FINDER
what's new in Finder? It has been revamped, and you could notice that the sidebar is much more organized than it was in Tiger. Hard drives are under DEVICES and individual folders are under PLACES. They even integrated Spotlight onto it under SEARCH FOR, so more or less just click on that (eg: All Images) and it will show the files on the dot! ;)
Leopard also introduced a new way of looking into the files/icons in the folder. It is the COVER FLOW view.. (if you're an iTunes user, you'll know what this is) EYE CANDY! ;)
and lastly QUICKLOOK is new in finder too! I find this very very very useful. With this feature, you don't have to open an application in order to view the file, like opening Word for documents, Powerpoint for presentations, iTunes/Quicktime for music/video files. You can view it by pressing the spacebar and it would popup and you would be able to browse the file ;) here are screenshots..

"Quicklooking" a powerpoint file
Quicklooking a .doc file
Quicklooking a Movie file
;)
Next stop would be... Time Machine, Spaces, and many more! ;)