Leopard Startup and Shutdown

Leopard starts up really fast, and that is what we've been hearing about. However, to my knowledge no one has mentioned the shutdown time for leopard. I shut down my mac today and the shutdown time is about one second. I have to say: I love this. This is great for notebook owners and people who are usually powering down their computers at night.

I think that this happens because, just as Leopard starts everything up in parallel, it also shuts everything down in parallel. On my computer there is no screen with just my desktop and a spinning wait counter, I press Apple menu ➤ Shut down and confirm. My screen goes black, and within a second my fan turns off. Awesome!