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 perfect but no bargain, 2007-11-17
Excellent product.
Shipped in a timely manner.
Priced the same as on Mac Connection though.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Leopard - a solid upgrade to OS X, 2007-11-17
I have installed Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on two machines: a MacPro (4GB RAM, 4x2.6Ghz Xeon) and a MacBook (2GB RAM, 1x@2.0Ghz Intel Core2 Duo). The MacBook received an upgrade and I did a clean install on the MacPro.
The upgrade took considerably longer, about 2 hours in all. After upgrading, the MacBook performed flawlessly and everything was working as it should. All settings were kept, and everything was smooth. There were a few applications that no longer worked under 10.5: CandyBar from Panic, and the Sony LocationFree player. I expect future upgrades to fix this.
The clean install was much faster and the machine seems a hair more responsive than before. Network operations are much improved both in speed and compatibility with Windows/Linux servers.
The few issues that are cropping up are almost exclusively related to Spaces. My Adobe Creative Suite 3 works great, but if spaces are invoked, there is all sorts of unexpected behavior with palettes and screen rendering. Nothing major to stop me from using it, or downgrading to 10.4. Granted I am running a dual screen setup with 6 spaces, 12 screens in total.
1 scenario that is a little worrisome: Finder running in space 1, another application in another space, let's say 2. When I am in space 2, and click on a folder on my desktop and try to rename it, the name of the folder disappears, and as I type, nothing shows. But once I press return, the new name shows up. If I switch to space 1 before renaming the folder, I can see the folder name being edited.
The new features far outweigh the few nuisances which I am certain will be addressed in an update.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
A solid step up that's worth every penny (Adobe CS3 info!), 2007-11-16
You've probably already heard it - Leopard may not be revolutionary, but it's an evolutionary step in the right direction, and a further improvement on an already solid OS. I've spent almost a month putting it through the paces, and I have to say I'm quite satisfied.
First, the important stuff: I'm running it on my 2GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro with 2GHz of memory. I typically use it with a 23" apple display in a desktop-like setup. I'm definitely demanding of my hardware... I'm often working in Adobe CS3 while watching a DVD or listening to music, referencing word documents, on iChat and running several tabs in Safari... if anyone would notice a difference in performance, I'd probably be the person.
The Finder is far and away better in Leopard than any manner of organizing files I've seen in previous versions of MacOS or Windows. The new sidebar is far more intuitive than the oversimplified version of Tiger. In a traditional view of a folder, you can actually see previews of the files, whether it's an image thumbnail or a few words from a word document to help you identify it... a much needed update to the frustrating little icons you used to see in Tiger that told you nothing.
Cover flow was a pleasant surprise to me. It honestly wasn't one of the reasons I was interested in Leopard, I thought it would be choppy or slow... but it just isn't; I've come to really appreciate this feature. It instantly gives big previews of files so you can see what they actually are - great when looking through pictures or word documents, and all you need to do to see a file in its actual size and fidelity is to press the spacebar - NOT open preview or Word. AWESOME feature. I've found that it's a little slow to render a preview of RAW image files and WMV video, but otherwise it's really an unmatched method of browsing through your files.
Regarding the look of Leopard - the reflective dock is flashy, nothing more and nothing less. If you don't like it, moving it to either side of the screen restores a look that's similar to the look in Tiger. Some people have cited concerns about the semi transparent menu bar and menus, but I think they are really, really nitpicking. It's never even remotely difficult for me to read the options.
Time Machine was my main motivation in buying Leopard, and it's already saved me a massive headache. I've used other backup software, and often ended up being so frustrated with it that I resorted to doing manual backups. With Leopard, I simply plugged in a new external drive (I'm using a 500GB) and time machine went to work. Some people have said that Time Machine is really nothing more than an attractive package, but I don't agree - the excellent graphical interface is not only eye catching, but it's INTUITIVE, which is a huge thing when it comes to something as confusing as backups.
Anyway, I had just been waiting for my older, not backed up 80GB external drive to start giving me trouble... and a week after I had backed it up with Time Machine, it started acting up - not showing up in the finder, corrupted files, etc. But - all I had to do was format it and restore the main folder on it from Time Machine, and I was back to normal. It's so, so easy.
Other notable features - Spaces is really cool once you get the hang of the keyboard shortcuts. I'm often losing sight of the desktop or overwhelmed with application windows. Spaces solved that pretty quickly! It's easy to use and doesn't cost you in performance whatsoever.
I use Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3 daily for work and haven't encountered any issues within these two applications, or with Bridge CS3 (being relatively new, they were built to work with Leopard.) For the most part, it seems as though CS3 works fine in Leopard, but there are a handful of known issues, especially in some of the less-popular applications. Adobe is pledging support and has a running list of known issues at http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/leopardsupport.pdf
Complaints - I wish time machine was a little more customizable... pretty much all you can do is turn it on or off and select specific sources to ignore if you don't want them to be backed up. There is also no password protection for Time Machine without setting up parental controls, which I see to be a pretty big oversight (anyone can go back and see anything on your machine, and make pretty significant changes to your files possibly without knowing any better.) I've also had, on just a couple of occasions, some odd video behavior in Leopard... a window, when closed, will leave behind a black hole on the desktop for just a minute or two. Not happening often, but obviously indicative of some kind of issue.
Overall, my main concerns about Leopard is that all the added "flash" would eat up resources and result in a slowed down or less than graceful environment (i.e. - I was worried that cover flow would be choppy or not work, that time machine would be slow, etc.) and I'm glad to report that these fears have been unfounded. As I said before, while there may not be anything truly mind blowing about Leopard, I think it's worth every penny. And... if you have more than 1 mac in your household, how can you pass up the bargain 5 user pack?!
So far, no problems!, 2007-11-16
I have installed Leopard more than one week ago, and it has running very smooth in my mac. I had no problems to use my old programs, and they run as fast as they ran in Tiger. Time machine is really a great tool. Overall, the new OS is more elegant and has several features to help one to take more of his/her mac.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
No bugs or problems here, 2007-11-16
Sad to see some other folks having problems. I upgraded from Tiger on my 24" iMac (Purchased in early September)with no problems. The upgrade went smoothly and the OS has functioned flawlessly since. In fact, it's working better than it did before--it used to crash once every few days. Firefox works fine. Acrobat 8 works fine. I have no other non-Apple software. I'm quite satisfied. I don't understand why others are having problems. In the Windows world, I always attributed it to the existence of so many hardware and software variation, but this should not be an issue in the Mac world. Who knows.
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