Mac OS X Leopard

[Kyle Fenton]

Leopard is indeed impressive. I played with it @ the Providence Place Mall after waiting an hour to get in.
But one thing consumers should know is that it breaks many third party applications. More than any other OS X release to date. Apparently in order for them to get the speed and security features in Leopard they deleted several "older" frameworks (API, Libraries, etc). Check to see if all of your essential applications support Leopard before upgrading.

Some applications that won't work

* Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
* Miglia AlchemyTV
* Filemaker (????)
* Shapeshifter
and many more

If you really modded your system than you should go and perform an archive and install instead of an upgrade path

[texasranger]

Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton

Leopard is indeed impressive. I played with it @ the Providence Place Mall after waiting an hour to get in.
But one thing consumers should know is that it breaks many third party applications. More than any other OS X release to date. Apparently in order for them to get the speed and security features in Leopard they deleted several "older" frameworks (API, Libraries, etc). Check to see if all of your essential applications support Leopard before upgrading.

Some applications that won't work

* Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
* Miglia AlchemyTV
* Filemaker (????)
* Shapeshifter
and many more

If you really modded your system than you should go and perform an archive and install instead of an upgrade path

Yeah, I just saw that in a mac forum recently. One of those users who liked installing freeware applications on his computer (most of them he probably didn't even use) and his installation of Leopard failed because of these apps. He was complaining that apple should give him his money back (I guess he couldn't let go of AntPoker).

[whlspacedude]

To start off i have never used leopard but with my past experiences with operating a mac id have to say that the mac in general is cumbersome and finicky. I currently use Ubuntu 7.10 and have had minimal problems (mostly user error) and am quite content with it. I however would like to know about leopard (not saying you'll convert me) and its GUI and eyecandy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtZKp8_jOHo

[Bharat Nain]

Someone at my college got Leopard recently and I played with it for more than 4 hours (because he was in class and let me borrow his). It is absolutely amazing. One of the most user-friendly OS's I have ever used. I also like how all the applications are very focussed on the convenience of home and business users. Some people like to be very technical so they probably would find XP or Linux more of their type but for me.. I'll take the mac. Now.. I need to save up so I can buy one of those.

[artdutra04]

Actually, it looks like I'll be upgrading my Mac Mini very soon to Leopard. One of the kids on my dorm floor bought a family pack of Leopard for $200 (since there's about a dozen or so Macs on our floor of 60 people). So far, a bunch of of the people who've upgraded to Leopard on my floor say that their computers seem to run faster with Leopard than they did with Tiger.

My G4 Mac Mini is barely above the minimum specs, but someone on the floor above mine upgraded their iBook with lower specs (867Mhz G4, 512Mb RAM) than my Mac Mini, and after seeing it in person, it runs practically as well as Tiger did. (They report about 15 seconds longer to turn on, and nothing much else.) Now I have no reservations about upgrading my Mini.

That's another reason why I like Macs; the useful lifespan of their hardware is about double that of the average PC.

[synth3tk]

I got an old iMac through my online school, and I might upgrade it to Leopard. I do wish to buy a MacBook Pro sometime in the near future.

[ben_0614]

I should be getting my copy of Leopard this week. I got a new 2.4 Ghz 24" iMac on the 21st, and they let me have a copy for 10$. Tiger is awesome already, a big jump from Windows ME. Leopard should be even better. I plan to get VMware Fusion and install Vista, or just use Boot Camp...

[Loki1989]

I bought a copy of leopard and an external hard disk for time machine and so far I have had fun with it and it runs all of my apps from before that plus the copy of Office mac 08' edition I got also.

[Andrew Y.]

my ex got one and i was playing wit it alllll last night. ITS AMAZING i kinda wish i wated to get my macbook

I think the coolest thing of all is the way you can view files!

too bad its gonna cost me 130 to upgrade

[Boydean]

I have been waiting for leopard to come out to get my first Mac. I got my Macbook last week, it was manufactured before Leopard came out so the upgrade disk was is the box. The first thing I noticed about Leopard after I upgraded from Tiger was that this thing is fast, and I mean fast!(that is after it got done indexing for spotlight). I have to say I am very technical person with computers and I love the ease of Mac OS, I have to say that I haven't touched my XP since I got the Macbook. Although I well most likely boot camp it in the next three months, but for now I just want to be a pure Mac.

Leopard sure has my vote!

[robostangs548]

It looks great, I just wish that I could run CAD and such on my Mac without having to go through all of the garbage of installing Boot Camp and such. Leopard is great, I love the new Icon Dock. On the other hand, I don’t like how there is a little more lag then usual, I miss running every one of my programs at one time and my computer not lagging at all. I also don’t necessarily like the pop up selection thing on the bottom bar. Other then that, I think that it is great software, and Mac is really doing great things! I just hope that they don’t turn into resource hogs like Vista. (I have to admit, even though I am running it.) As you can see in this picture, http://robostangs.tonch.com/Untitled-1.jpg I am still undecided in which operating system is the best, and I love to have parts of both OS’s.