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Software : Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard
Rating: 
- Great Software
10.5 upgraded from 10.4 like a dream. No difficulties at all on a Powerbook G4.
Time Machine has been a fantastic feature to have, painlessly backing up data for me in the background and saving me the trouble of doing so manually. Typically it does so with no additional drag on the responsiveness of the computer (which is several years old, and I tend to run a lot of programs at a time) though occasionally if I've left it unhooked from the external drive for an extended period and it has a lot to sort through the responsiveness will slow for a minute or two while it catches up.
Spaces is a great feature as well, allowing you to divide your windows up among multiple 'virtual' desktops. On this particular computer I find that I don't use it a great deal, because I don't find that a laptop lends itself to this style of use for me. However, I've used similar features from Linux distributions on a desktop to know that in that situation it's a great help to keeping things organized and moving along.
If you're happy with Tiger (10.4) and already have a solid backup arrangement I wouldn't necessarily say that you must rush to update as quickly as possible. Tiger was beautifully done and continues to stand well. For the average user, I expect that the improvements in Leopard more than justify its purchase.
Rating:
- Leopard purchase
Purchased Leopard for a good price, but takes forever to get the item. Ordered on March 17 and didn't receive item until March 27. Item wasn't even shipped until March 22. So it is not the USPS that takes so long, it is getting it shipped. Never have ordered anything on line that moves so slow through company.
Rating: - Wonderful!
I actually like the "minor" (that's what others say) changes that have been brought about in Leopard! Great improvements, even friendlier, and ease of use make this a keeper for me.
Rating:
- Not impressed with Leopard
It is very important for people to be objective and unbiased when reviewing a product. I'm partly saying this to myself because my experience with leopard is not exactly pleasant.
I bought my Macbook pro with Tiger on it and it was truly amazing, and had Leopard be the OS that came installed on it I would be blown away by it, too. Half a year later I was forced to upgrade to Leopard only because now I needed Bootcamp and Apple has decided to take Bootcamp off their website thus forcing their users to spend the money and upgrade. Fortunately bootcamp installed and runs fine so I guess the hundred so bucks spent were justified, to the least.
The installation was straight forward enough except I also made the mistake to have the disc verified, and just like many people writing the review that wasted a good 45 minutes, but besides that everything was smooth for me. I'm glad the installer did not reformat my drive on accident or corrupted any of the programs that I use daily.
As far as functionality goes since I don't use any of the new programs provided, all the features apple marketing is trying to shove down my throat (which I bought) were not being used anyway. DVD player, Safari, i Tune, iPhoto, what not, were all already available on Tiger with the only noticible difference being that the pictures, documents and movies files are now shown with a preview of them instead of just the file icon.
I hate how Leopard tries to integrate .Mac into the system, by first having a dedicated installer page to it, then put it in my Preference AND having an extra icon below my Macintosh HD. If I spent money and bought a software, I'd like to have full control over what I want installed and what I want gone.
Besides loosing my wireless connectivity and not able to wake up the computer occasionally, when I close the lid and then open it up, Leopard to me feels really similar to Tiger, except with some little bugs. Therefore from a consumer's point of view I just spent $100 some dollars on bootcamp, an hour and a half of my time, some bugs, .Mac, and the ability to preview graphical files with their icons -- hence the 2 star.
Is it a bad product? In my opinion definitely not, and I should apologize to the developers. But because of a business decision Apple and OS X did a disservice to me this time, which I will definitely keep in mind when I check out Mac products next time. Some folks say Vista's biggest enemy is XP and I think the same analogy applies here, that Leopard's biggest enemy is Tiger. If bootcamp were made available again, I would go back to Tiger in no time.
Rating: - leopard
I installed leopard ox 10.5.1 with no problems, just followed the instructions and voila. It's been running now for several weeks with no glitches or problems. Needless to say the OS itself is wonderful, but I'm sure everyone knows that.
- Great Software10.5 upgraded from 10.4 like a dream. No difficulties at all on a Powerbook G4.
Time Machine has been a fantastic feature to have, painlessly backing up data for me in the background and saving me the trouble of doing so manually. Typically it does so with no additional drag on the responsiveness of the computer (which is several years old, and I tend to run a lot of programs at a time) though occasionally if I've left it unhooked from the external drive for an extended period and it has a lot to sort through the responsiveness will slow for a minute or two while it catches up.
Spaces is a great feature as well, allowing you to divide your windows up among multiple 'virtual' desktops. On this particular computer I find that I don't use it a great deal, because I don't find that a laptop lends itself to this style of use for me. However, I've used similar features from Linux distributions on a desktop to know that in that situation it's a great help to keeping things organized and moving along.
If you're happy with Tiger (10.4) and already have a solid backup arrangement I wouldn't necessarily say that you must rush to update as quickly as possible. Tiger was beautifully done and continues to stand well. For the average user, I expect that the improvements in Leopard more than justify its purchase.
Rating:
- Leopard purchasePurchased Leopard for a good price, but takes forever to get the item. Ordered on March 17 and didn't receive item until March 27. Item wasn't even shipped until March 22. So it is not the USPS that takes so long, it is getting it shipped. Never have ordered anything on line that moves so slow through company.
Rating:
- Wonderful!I actually like the "minor" (that's what others say) changes that have been brought about in Leopard! Great improvements, even friendlier, and ease of use make this a keeper for me.
Rating:
- Not impressed with LeopardIt is very important for people to be objective and unbiased when reviewing a product. I'm partly saying this to myself because my experience with leopard is not exactly pleasant.
I bought my Macbook pro with Tiger on it and it was truly amazing, and had Leopard be the OS that came installed on it I would be blown away by it, too. Half a year later I was forced to upgrade to Leopard only because now I needed Bootcamp and Apple has decided to take Bootcamp off their website thus forcing their users to spend the money and upgrade. Fortunately bootcamp installed and runs fine so I guess the hundred so bucks spent were justified, to the least.
The installation was straight forward enough except I also made the mistake to have the disc verified, and just like many people writing the review that wasted a good 45 minutes, but besides that everything was smooth for me. I'm glad the installer did not reformat my drive on accident or corrupted any of the programs that I use daily.
As far as functionality goes since I don't use any of the new programs provided, all the features apple marketing is trying to shove down my throat (which I bought) were not being used anyway. DVD player, Safari, i Tune, iPhoto, what not, were all already available on Tiger with the only noticible difference being that the pictures, documents and movies files are now shown with a preview of them instead of just the file icon.
I hate how Leopard tries to integrate .Mac into the system, by first having a dedicated installer page to it, then put it in my Preference AND having an extra icon below my Macintosh HD. If I spent money and bought a software, I'd like to have full control over what I want installed and what I want gone.
Besides loosing my wireless connectivity and not able to wake up the computer occasionally, when I close the lid and then open it up, Leopard to me feels really similar to Tiger, except with some little bugs. Therefore from a consumer's point of view I just spent $100 some dollars on bootcamp, an hour and a half of my time, some bugs, .Mac, and the ability to preview graphical files with their icons -- hence the 2 star.
Is it a bad product? In my opinion definitely not, and I should apologize to the developers. But because of a business decision Apple and OS X did a disservice to me this time, which I will definitely keep in mind when I check out Mac products next time. Some folks say Vista's biggest enemy is XP and I think the same analogy applies here, that Leopard's biggest enemy is Tiger. If bootcamp were made available again, I would go back to Tiger in no time.
Rating:
- leopard I installed leopard ox 10.5.1 with no problems, just followed the instructions and voila. It's been running now for several weeks with no glitches or problems. Needless to say the OS itself is wonderful, but I'm sure everyone knows that.
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