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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Mac OS X Leopard - Worth it!, 2008-06-18
I'm a newcomer to Mac from the PC world having just started out with this 1st Gen Mac Pro. I immediately replaced the 250gb drive with a 500 and bought Leopard to install on it. The installation went perfect, with none of the nonsense I'm used to with PCs and considerably less expense.
Here's my initial impressions after about 3 months of living with Leopard:
It's easy to learn, stable and fast. The default mouse setting was 1-button. Setting it to "2-button" in System Preferences was a big help for me.
I'm going to compare it to Windows, as I have no Tiger or any previous Mac experience, so...
It's not as pretty as Vista, but is a lot more useful. It's a bunch faster and more stable too. This comparison is based on a Mac Pro vs. a high-end Core2Duo / P35 PC system with Hardware RAID and 4gb RAM.
It appears to be more secure and trustworthy than Windows XP or Vista. Maybe this is because of the OS itself or because fewer people try to hack it. Probably it's both.
Time Machine is great, very easy to set up and use. Unlike Windows System Restore it saves your files without the hassle of well, backups.
Want to copy your entire Hard drive for the ultimate Backup? No problem with Leopard. Windows is designed to discourage this practice and will usually kill the activation.
Boot Camp works great. It allows the computer to run Windows extremely well for those of us who have some Windows-only programs still in use.
Curiously, Leopard can read Microsoft's NTFS files but cannot write to them. Windows on the other hand can't even read Mac's HFS files. There are utilities available for either. The ancient FAT32 is a good go-between.
The cost: You get a FULL version of Leopard with all necessary drivers for any Mac it can run on, Windows drivers for Boot Camp plus the DVD doubles as a system restore/diagnosis/disk utility disk all in one little package for one low price. Also, there's no nonsense with entering Serial Numbers or Activations. All it really does is check to make sure that you're installing it on Apple hardware.
(For those of you Apple diehards out of touch with the PC world, Windows generally costs a LOT more, plus a 25-digit serial number has to be entered and then "Activated" and if you change too much hardware, you're expected to pay them again to re-install it on the same machine!)
This total lack of hassle alone has me sold on Macs and Leopard.
Have Fun,
Keri
P.S.
Thanks Steve! :)
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 It's OK, but..., 2008-06-13
I'm a Mac fan, and I got this upgrade because I thought it would be like every other OS X upgrade. They usually seem to make my computer faster, and ad some great features.
This didn't, it actually is slower, it messed up my computer when I installed it... and then once it finally started working it was really buggy. I think apple really rushed this one out the door. Subsequent updates have helped out, but really... it wasn't worth the price, which is the first OS X upgrade (I've used every version of OS X) to have that problem.
Mac OS X Leopard more & less than expected, 2008-06-09
Overall, this is a nice addition to the mac family and to my personal computing experience. I love the new dock, and I'm sure I will love spaces once i get a little more used to it. at the moment, though, it's slightly confusing. To me, the best part is the preview windows in the dock, and the ability to preview items in your finder by hitting the space bar. My only real complaint is that iTunes decided to stop syncing my iPod Touch after I installed 10.5.1. Nothing I've done has fixed it. I'm going to keep researching, but I use my mac for music more than anything else, so that's a big bummer for me.
Other than that, though, it's a winner!
Mac OS X Leopard, 2008-06-05
I was really pleased with there services and how fast I received my order I would not mind ordering something from them again. And I would gladly say that I was really impressed with there overall service and how i was treated.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
The one critique I've found..., 2008-05-24
Leopard is a good upgrade from Tiger, though a little expensive. Benefits include improved page movement tracking in Safari, added notes and to-dos in Mail, and enhanced flexibility combined with easier setup in networking shared computers on a LAN. Leopard also enables Mac Pro owners to use the new high-speed NVidia 8800 GT video card so we can finally play video games as well as our PC-owning cousins do.
Unfortunately, for people with font management tools such as Suitcase, Leopard also comes with a big headache: cumbersome font management within the system. What used to work well with a 500-plus font collection now is broken so much that I cannot use any of my postscript fonts without constant error popups. Every time I activate a font in my manager (Suitcase Fusion X), I'm told it conflicts with some Apple System font. Of course there's no duplicate of the particular font in the Apple list, but it certainly prevents me from using fonts I need to work on my old documents. For a graphics person this would be supremely frustrating.
Apple and third parties have written about this issue and there are workarounds, but it's much more a pain in the butt than in previous versions of Mac OS X. If you work with type, you MUST plan out how to migrate your type collection over to Leopard before upgrading your Mac or you'll immediately be unable to access your type library to do your work.
I do think that Apple should have better prepared for this before releasing the product to the professional community, and I am certainly unhappy that I have to do the heavy lifting to get my work environment back to a functional level.
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