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3 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Refined Perfection. , 2007-10-29
The perfection expected of Apple has once again evolved and, as always, continues to surpass it competitors.
There are vast improvements on every level. Leopard makes me look at Vista and say "Wow... How absolutely prehistoric."
121 of 133 customers found the following review helpful:
 Wait for the First Update **UPDATED** 11-19, 2007-10-29
There is a ton of potential here with Leopard, including some very nice new features that makes the Mac even better. The only problem is that the bugs in this first release are so annoying and problematic that I've wasted more time trying to work out the kinks than being productive. Going from the stability of Tiger to this has been a huge dissapointment.
My advice is to hold off a bit until they get some of these issues worked out. Here are a list of the problems I am experiencing on both my Mac Pro and Macbook (other Mac owners are reporting similar problems on their machines):
1. Desktop freezing - both machines frequently have their desktops freeze up, making them inaccessible. The solution is to change the screen resolution to a lower setting and back. **Since the 10.5.1 update I have not experienced additional desktop freezing issues**
2. Installation woes - Leopard's upgrade disc did not recognize my Mac Pro's system drive initially, I had to run one of the programs on the installation disc in order to get it to pop up for the install.
3. Font problems - If you do a lot of graphic design work and are continually receiving fonts along with a Quark or Adobe inDesign document, definitely hold off on upgrading. A few current projects that opened up fine in Tiger simply don't recognize the fonts under Leopard.
4. Back to My Mac - This for me was I upgraded.. Sadly it just doesn't work and likely won't for most of us. Checking through online discussion boards many other folks are equally frustrated in trying to get this thing to work. Apple has recently posted a message indicating that expanded support for third party routers is "coming soon." Huge oversight to be hyping a feature that will only work for those with a $180 Apple router. Similar PC products like Hamachi work flawlessly, there's simply no excuse for this. *** Since the 10.5.1 update Back to My Mac is working MUCH better, including a recent stay at a hotel. I'd say a bulk of the problems described above have been fixed.**
5. Spaces - this great virtual desktop application is plagued by sucking applications into 'limbo' and occasionally cycles through the available desktops randomly when some apps display warnings.
6. Video glitches - The display on my Mac Pro (running an ATI x1900XT) often gets lines of gibberish streaking through the display. Others are reporting similar issues. **UPDATE: Leopard taxes video hardware significantly more than prior releases of OS X. X1900XT cards on the Mac Pro are experiencing an issue with dust building up on the heat sink which is blocking airflow and overheating the card. Vacuuming out the heat sink has improved the problem for me.
7. The new "Dock" is horrid.. The 3D "glass" effect makes it difficult to see which applications are currently loaded. Thankfully a simple terminal command can remove the fancy effects and make it a bit more manageable.
8. Time Machine works as advertised with an external drive attached to a USB or firewire port. Getting it to work over a network with a Macbook is another story.. It will recognize internal drives on a networked machine, but external drives attached to that same networked computer are hit or miss.
Are any of these show stoppers? With the exception of the font issue, probably not. But if your system is running reliably with Tiger, I'd hold off a bit until Apple gets some of these issues worked out and releases their first round of updates.
Clearly the development team struggled getting this out the door, and it shows. Definitely the most disappointing Apple product I've purchased in quite some time.
10 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
A Solid Update, 2007-10-29
I picked up Leopard on Friday and installed it Saturday morning in my MacBook Pro, which has 4 Gigs of RAM and the 2.2 Ghz Intel Core Duo Processor. The installation took about two hours (including 45 minutes for "disk verification", which I'm guessing you could skip) but virtually none of my time -- I started the process up, picked my language, and sent the installer on its way. I came back two hours later to a finished installation.
I use VMWare's Fusion to run Windows XP on my Mac, and my biggest concern was whether I would run into compatibility problems between Fusion and Leopard. The VMWare website is only mildly reassuring, with a statement in the FAQ's that boils down to "gee, we think it'll work." I had pre-installed the Fusion Ver. 1.1 "Release Candidate" from VMWare's website before installing Leopard, and had absolutely no compatibility issues turn up over the weekend -- the Windows programs I use all worked just fine. In fact, the only compatibility issue I ran into was with Lightscribe's little utility program for burning Lightscribe CD labels using the Mac (I have an HP Lightscribe external burner). The utility program stopped working in Leopard, although the Windows version of the same utility program worked just fine in the Fusion Virtual Machine with the HP burner connected through a USB port. (Reviewer's Added Note: Since I wrote this, Lightscribe has posted an update to the utility on their website that resolves the problem).
As an ugrade, Leopard is solid, but not remarkable -- most of the new features are minor tweaks, fancy frills, or features that will appeal mostly to niche users, with two very important exceptions.
The first is Time Machine, which is easily the most useable consumer backup program on the planet. To make it work, you need an HFS+ formatted hard drive, and it works best with a Firewire connection. The La Cie Quadra hard drives for Mac, with their "auto on" switch feature, are perfect. Plan on it taking an hour or two for Mac to make the first backup, but after that Time Machine is completely seamless and quietly makes regular back-ups of your files. The interface for finding backed-up files and restoring them is nothing short of brilliant.
The second remarkable new feature is Spaces, which is (for all you old-time Mac users out there) essentially Switcher on steroids -- MAJOR steroids. You can create multiple work spaces and put different programs in each workspace -- and if you have a background activity (like a download) going in one workspace, you can switch to another and the background activity cheerfully continues, out of sight. So you can work on a PowerPoint presentation in one screen while having your browser open in another, so they aren't constantly getting in each other's way. This feature is particularly useful with VMWare's Fusion --you can assign a full-screen Windows environment to its very own separate Space. In theory, up to sixteen "Spaces" are available. Incidentally, if you have a Mighty Mouse, try assigning Spaces to the trackball button -- you click on the trackball to pull up all the active Spaces, and then use the trackball to switch between them. Very spiffy.
I imagine that over the next few weeks some glitches will appear, but overall the Leopard upgrade seems very stable and bug free. My only gripe is the price, really -- while Time Machine and Spaces are great achievements, most of the rest of the changes seem like trinkets, and the price seems a little high. But not so high that I wouldn't recommend adding it to any Mac eligible for the upgrade.
41 of 47 customers found the following review helpful:
Best Operating System So Far, 2007-10-28
I've only been using Leopard for a couple days, but so far it's worked perfectly for me -- better, actually, than 10.4.10 was. Here's a short list of the features that I like:
1. Quick View/Finder Icons -- all my documents, PDFs, pictures and Excel files show up as icon previews in the Finder. When I press the space bar, a large version pops up. Now I no longer have to open an application to read over a file quickly. It's also nice for photos
2. Spotlight -- That's the quick find search box in the upper right corner of the screen. It's WAY, WAY, WAY faster than in the previous OS X and can do complex searches if you like. Plus, now when I type a math problem (for example "123-25") in the box, Spotlight shows the result (i.e. "123-25=98"). If I type in a word I don't know, the definition also appears with the other search results.
3. Preview -- Anyone who's ever opened the regular version of Adobe Acrobat knows how dog slow this application is (plus waiting for the updater takes forever). When I open a PDF in a web browser, I have to wait like 10-20 seconds for Acrobat to load. No more. Preview can open PDFs, and now it has lots of controls that make it useable. I can highlight text, write comments, draw shapes on PDFs without opening Acrobat. Yeah!!!
4. Mail -- This is Apple's email client, and it's finally good enough to replace Microsoft Entourage. It's integrated with iCal and Address Book, so everything is connected while still being easy to use. For example, Mail will find stuff that looks like an invitation to do something and offer to put it in your calendar if you hover over that part of the text. By the way, it's also very FAST, especially when showing fancy html messages.
5. Speed -- Overall, this system is just speedier and eliminates a lot of minor inconveniences. By speedier, I don't mean that you really don't need to wait for things to happen. Photoshop opens a lot faster than before, and Safari is also faster.
I noticed that some people are having problems. Of course, you can never predict other people's problems, but here's two tips that may help some people:
1. After you first upgrade, Spotlight needs to create an index of your computer. This can take anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour, but the computer will be slow until it finishes. Don't worry, this only happens once.
2. Make sure you have enough hard drive room on your computer. The operating system takes nearly 9 gigs of space. Keep in mind that you want at least 10 percent of the space free on your hard drive, otherwise it will slow down. Try deleting or backing up unused files (or buy a bigger hard drive).
6 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
Good stuff., 2007-10-28
While I initially wanted to wait for the company to iron out bugs, I was convinced to install 10.5. I am happy to say, no bugs that I can see. The networking improvements are astounding. It finds and shares computers effortlessly, you can share screens with your friends on the other side of the country if you grant them permission or invite them to share. The plug and play of everything is simply astounding. I am very impressed. It was worth the upgrade. Outstanding.
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