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8 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
 WOW WOW WOW !!!, 2007-11-02
I bought the upgrade to take my 2 Mac's from Tiger to Leopard (OSX.5). The simple upgrade install went off without a hitch on both my iMac G5 and my Macbook. It's all in the details and Leopard has refined the Mac more than ever.
On both machines they are more responsive and work better. The dock is really improved and now looks like a platform and does much more. Spaces saves me allot of time and works perfectly. Safari in OS X.5 is improved and has new and better features-even spelling and grammar as you type within the browser.
The new Mail client has templates that make my emails have flair and look like real letters and not a bunch of words smashed together. While it does take about 400k for an email with the templates, it is worth it. You can also write a fast email because system wide Leopard is faster-much faster.
There are so many new features to play with but taken as the core of your computer, Apple has designed the strongest and most feature packed OS in the history of computing. And with both of my machines its been faultless and well worth the money.
37 of 61 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great features but major stability issues when also using .Mac, 2007-11-01
Frequent system freezes, crashes, and a huge hit to productivity all outweigh the many nice, new features.
I would give this 5 stars if it were reliable, but reliability trumps all else.
This is the least stable OS I have ever used (I haven't used Vista, but I have used every other version of Windows).
I have 3 Macs running OS X Leopard, so my issues are not unique to one computer.
If you must use Leopard, disable iDisk local sync, as this seems to be the culprit for many stability issues.
Highly recommend you wait for at least 10.5.1 or 10.5.2, as this feels like a late alpha/early beta version.
UPDATE: Now on 10.5.2 and much better now. The early problems seemed to focus on .Mac sync, which was highly buggy. I expect better reliability from Apple, as I have high expectations (which is why I use a Mac).
12 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Fabulous Upgrade, 2007-11-01
Installed Leopard on three computers, a Mac Pro 2.66Ghz, MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz, and an old 1.5Ghz G4 Powerbook. I encountered no problems upgrading even though I chose the "Upgrade" option. I did this because I knew I had avoided installing programs with haxies. If you have done this be sure and choose the "Archive and Install" option instead to avoid having the known problem of a blue screen on initial reboot occur. The new features in Leopard look and work great. I am extremely happy with it. The only glaring problem I see with 10.5.0 is that repairing permissions does not work as well as it did in 10.4. The progress indicator does not work properly and the process takes 2-3 times as long. I am sure Apple will correct this in a software update.
13 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
Leopard Installed Successfully on PowerBook and Intel-based Mac mini, 2007-11-01
I have been lucky so far. I was able to upgrade (not clean install) to Leopard on both my G4-based 12" PowerBook and my Intel-based Mac mini. The install took about a little more than an hour.
I like the new 3D dock simply because it looks good. However, the light blue "ball" that indicates that an app is running isn't right away noticeable to the eye (unlike the black arrow in Tiger).
On my PowerBook, I noticed that the menu bar was solid gray. I am not bothered by this because I prefer it over the translucent menu bar. The translucency makes it harder to see the menu items.
Performance on both machines are snappy. I am surprised that Leopard performs fast on my 12" PowerBook (1.5GHz G4, 1.25GB RAM) since the PowerBook is an older machine.
Spaces is very useful, especially if you have a small screen. It makes it more comfortable to work on multiple applications.
The Terminal application has been improved. It now supports tabbed windows just like the Safari browser. This makes it easier to work with multiple shells if you have a small screen (like a 12" PowerBook).
Some applications, however, misbehaved on my Mac mini. This includes Last.FM's startup application, and Yahoo! Widgets. Firefox and Thunderbird, however, work fine on both PowerBook and Mac mini. They seem faster too. iTunes 7.4.2 worked fine too.
Time machine works well with my Mac mini. I have an external Firewire drive to which TM saves the backups. However, if you use FileVault to encrypt your home directory, TM only backs it up whenever you log out.
What's also good about Leopard is that the development tools are included in the installation disks. You don't have to pay extra for those. The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is the compiler used on Leopard (as in the past versions too). Objective-C has been updated to include a garbage collection facility.
Java is included but the version is Java 5. Java 6 has not been released for this released version of Leopard (though it was available in previous beta releases of Leopard). If you are looking to run and program in Java 6, you're out of luck until Apple releases the SDK and runtime for Java 6.
Overall so far, my experience with Leopard has been very good. I am quite happy with its features and performance on both my PowerBook and my Intel-based Mac mini.
5 of 18 customers found the following review helpful:
installation blue screened, 2007-10-31
The installation blue screened for me. As Apple suggested, I deleted ApplicationEnhancer.bundle in single-user mode and it still blue screened. Apple claims page 7 of the documentation that came with the Leopard DVD gives an alternate method of installing but that's not what's on page 7 of my documentation. It just doesn't work. Fortunately, I have a CopyCatX backup of the previous operating system that I can restore.
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