Leopard is installed on both of my machines, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. Couple of things I noticed…
Adobe Photoshop CS 3 interface is a bit buggy in Leopard. I had to restart the program (Photoshop) a few times, the brush tool started to spaz out and stop working. Also, the top and side toolbar would grey out randomly when I would switch back and forward between programs.
The other thing I noticed, Spaces make sense on a laptop but weird to use on a machine with dual monitors.
More later.
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Yeah, I’ve been reading that Leopard’s been misbehaving and horribly buggy in several instances, but I’m sure that’s not news to you guys. I’m holding off for a few months until things get resolved….
They were supposed to have fixed the issues with CS3…
Adobe hasn’t released a fix yet for CS 3. They’ve been falling behind.
now, the most ironic part of this is that if that happened in Windows, it would be labeled the devil and advised that no one should use it… oh wait, it did happen.
Everyone at my house has upgraded to Leopard over the weekend and while there are a few problems here and there it is quite stable so far. It also seems to run a lot faster on my MBP than Tiger did :D
Virtual desktops are a great way to organize your work or other activities. Even on big monitors or dual setups. Of course you have to get used to it a bit first, but then…
I am using it for years and probably can’t live without it anymore :)
Try disconnecting your Wacom Tablet and see if PS behaves normally using the trackpad. Often the tablet drivers can cause weird behavior in Adobe programs.
If that doesn’t help, reinstall. Just straight up uninstall and reinstall. Fixes 90% of issues after system updates/upgrades. That, or the much simpler prefs reset.
Planning on getting Leopard for my MBP next week. The new stuff like spaces and stacks, and pretty file views all sound so exciting :D I was expecting some more Leopard themed comics though.. Ah well, I love the current body swap thing. Hilarious as usual guys!
Space is really nice with a single moniter, I love the multiple desktop function from gnome with my linux box. I love that it’s finially part of OS X
Finally, Leopard has the same features as Linux! I love the spaces feature. CS3, though isn’t so great. In fact, I still stay loyal to my Photoshop 6.0. Adobe really messed up on CS3, and they still haven’t quite fixed it.
Is there any way on Leopard to not install bootcamp? Personally I just don’t want to ever boot windows on my mac mostly for security issues and one you boot windows your hard drive becomes just a susceptible to all the viruses and spyware and that means more software and slower computer which equals sad me. I would just like to use a separate computer for all my windows related needs… which are so few that my life has improved greatly.
I just installed Adobe CS3 on Leopard. The only application that didn’t install was Illustrator with a codec overrun error message. Once I’m confident with Leopard, I’ll bring my external drive online to check another copy of the CS3 installation file if I get the same error message.
Dear god, its the equivalent of Vista for Macs
Seeing that vista copied everything it has from MAC OS 10.4… and always has copied the MAC OS’s and just built on their original Windows 3. whatever so it just keeps growing in size which is okay because computers keep getting faster but once computers stop getting faster windows will even more noticeably lag on any and all computers. So Leopard is not Vista for macs rather Vista is leopard for PC people.
lol yeah judging from other peoples comments, Leopard is Linux for mac users…
Yup, that’s right, cause a 32 MEGABYTE update to get the new USB apple KEYBOARD to even function is not bloated AT ALL…
Vists isn’t Leopard for PC people, it’s Tiger for PC People with a couple added features apple finally added to their OS a year later. Be happy in the fact that at least apple’s software, bloated though it may be, runs smoother and more stable out of the box than microsoft can ever dream of hoping to accomplish.
Sorry I didn’t get the OS name right… But seeing as HDs have capacities in the gigabytes range 32 megabytes really isn’t that much… I didn’t realize that though. And I didn’t think that apples software was nearly as bulky as the microsoft counterpart. But maybe the reason Mac OSs run smoother is that they are built from the ground up (for the most part) not just on top of the old OS from god knows when. That just makes debugging really tough and your eventually going to have something so massive it will be almost impossible to debug without millions of computer programers. Talk about an unnecessary expense… you would think building a new OS from the ground up would be cheaper at some point.
So over all would you recomend using Leopard? Cause right now i am fed up with my computer and am working on getting a Mac.
Hawk, I’m interested to know how Spaces works on multiple monitors. I’ve been a multi-monitor user since 2000 and have never really needed the Linux-style multiple desktops. But I’m very curious to know how Leopard implements Spaces with multiple screens. (BTW, I’m a Windows user, but still…)
Submit as many bug reports as you can! (this goes for everyone). I do Photoshop tech support, and I hate having to tell everyone that it is completely compatible with Leopard.
my only question is why they’re so against having the dock bar on the side
they made it so very, very ugly
and firefox! firefox with the blackbits and the ugly
honestly, having one shiny new bit (bottom dock) doesn’t make up for making EVERYTHING else look absolutely terrible
maybe when they’re done ruining the few things i like about macs, they can get around to fixing the horrid RAM management in Intel Macs… maybe
Yes let’s make it look like windows drab and grainy with less resolution! I know you can change the position of the dock in OS 10.4 but I am not sure about 10.5… And yes shinny things are fun and good they make you happy and less irritable… and when you don’t have them you get shinny dock jealousy… which is what you are experiencing. If you don’t seek help for your problem you will give the third law of thermodynamics (which is that entropy goes to zero as the temp goes to zero) no choice but to act on you without mercy… this would make all the carbon in your body turn to graphite and hydrogen to H2 gas subsequently ending necessary bodily functions. As for the RAM problem… I blame intel. I thought it was a bad move to go to intel based chips because of the processes they use to make the dual core chips damages many of the microprocessors on each of the cores. That could be part of the problem… but I don’t know much about it I don’t run many programs that would take a lot of RAM. So you and the third law should have fun together.