Most of you have probably noticed that the most recent version of OS X was released on the 26th. I’m sure some of you have already installed it and have been playing around with it. I’m still waiting for my copy so I can’t give my opinions yet, but I thought you guys would have some great opinions, so let us know what you think in the comments….
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To be honest, its amazing yet really buggy and personally i hate the new Dock and Transparent Menubar.
however, i found this
http://www.eternalstorms.at/utilities/opaquemenubar/
Little app that stops the bar from being transparent if you dont like it.
I got it on the day it came out and got the t-shirt too :). I really like it so far I havent had any problems with bugs and it made my Macbook Pro faster :). I dont really mind the new dock but I did change it from the default color to a darker one so the little orbs stand out better.
Was one of the few things I wanted to have ASAP. The other one was the Eve figurine, but guess I could not wait for my CC# to clear up to get one. Next time ^^
Frankly, best installation experience I’ve had for a long time on a OS. Only thing I mangled was the “Archive & Install” option. Everything else took mere minutes to set up. Then I went away for a few hours, and when I came back, it was rebooted, and ready to churn away. Kudos for the installer, at least :)
Speed, very snappy. Finally they corrected the bug that made my computer gobble up all RAM slowly but surely. I receive many e-mails per day (and some inordinate amount of spam), and only Mail was getting me over the gigabyte barrier after one or two days. Now, I don’t have that problem anymore. There are a few glitches on the Dock animations sometimes, making me believe they got their priorities backwards sometimes, but at least, everything feels snappier. Heck, I did a reboot (ooh, rare), and did not even saw the Welcome progress bar, nor did it stayed for a long time on the small round ball.
I am lukewarm on the 3D dock. Nicer, true. But the small dot saying an application is open is nigh-invisible on my screen. Also, the stacks are very useful, but I will agree with a reviewer (ArsTechnica if I remember well) that wanted to have a way to deactivate that and return to a auto-open-window behavior. My only real grudge on the stacks are they lose their identities once they are open. I wouldn’t hate a flap on my stack with the icon design in overprint.
Mail is cool. Protection is cool. It asks more than its share of password, that said. It used to stay “sudo”‘ed for a few seconds, now you need to authorize to every task.
I am having a very hard time with my Apple Extreme Base Station hard drive, so much that I decided to plug it back on my computer. I have not tried Time Machine yet, will enable it once I will have a valid legal way to start it from the base station (and not a hack).
Oh, and I love the Web Snippet feature. Great to create mini-dashboards in a few seconds.
That’s it I guess.
Yeah i agree with the others, still a bit buggy at the moment. usb drives dont eject / unmount for me correctly. its windows network share mounts disks under the computer icon instead of the devices where i like it..
when i am multitasking like 8 apps it starts to get a bit jumpy..
over all i am pleased with it, autho i will not roll out into our commercial environment until some bug fixes
you still use usb drives?
what else is there? If you need small quick portable storage a nice 2 or 4gb thumb/flash/usb/stick…whatever-you-want-to-call-it drive is the way to go!
And it fits conveniently on a keychain ^^
eSATA. Macs don’t have eSATA ports yet, though. *shrug* So, kind of a moot point.
Loving Leopard so far (how did I live before Quick Look?). One major warning though–if you NEED to print through a RIP you may want to hold off until Epson and the other usual suspects get their act together.
I still not upgraded my MacBook.
Do quick look preview .odt documents? is front row good? I heard that the interface is worst than in Tiger, at least the entering transition….
Bye!
I also got it on release day and so far I like it quite a bit. A few of my programs don’t run (my preferred blogging software won’t even open and another program causes a fatal crash after about an hour). I love the new iCal, it is much cleaner in appearance. Time Machine has worked beautifully for me. Overall my Mac Book runs much smoother, especially Firefox.
Stacks are great but I want to find a way to change the number of items and the size. I generally have all the icons and text pretty small on my screen (the benefits of good vision, I suppose) so it really bugs me that I can’t make those icons any smaller.
Oh, I had a problem with an Apple script I am using with Tiger. When run it is supposed close iCal, change the week view start day to the current day then reopen iCal (if Apple would just give us the option of having the start day be the current day like Google calendars I wouldn’t need this script). In Tiger it never reopened iCal but since installing Leopard it launches the program just fine.
I’ve had no problems at all with Leopard, but I used the “Erase and Install” option. I was getting lots of BSD issues with Tiger that Disk Warrior would not even fix. It was time for a fresh build.
Overall, I like the changes. Time machine is cool (although thankfully i haven’t had to use it yet) and so is Spaces. But the new dock… they took out hierarchical list navigation and replaced it with the utterly useless “Stacks” (with the exception of downloads, it works well for that). Slowly working on restoring Tiger dock functionality.
I got Leopard free because I am an ADC Select member and I am an absolute fan of it! They have made a crazy amount of under the hood improvements! Those kinds of improvements are always awesome. As a developer, I absolutely love how they revamped the developer tools!
The only problem I’ve run into is running X11. X11 apps now run on the laptop, but I haven’t managed to duplicate my success on the desktop. Here’s to hoping they’ll have a fix in 10.5.1
have to say that I have been enjoying it so far, not able to play around with iChat the way I would like to I seem to be the only person among my friends that are bothering with iChat. So no playing with the video chat. The finder though with the slide bar looking like iTunes I’m not happy with. I like the new Dock, but It has had some issues. I’m giving 10.5 my thumbs up.
As usual I had installation problems, but that has more to do with my computer than any of the OSs. The only part of Leopard that I’m not a fan of is replacing the backgrounds for 3D Chat or PhotoBooth because the chroma keying invariably takes out part of you or your clothing. Other than that, I love it. Haven’t used Time Machine yet, but Quick Look may be the best addition they’ve ever made to an OS, in my opinion. I love all the updates to the main apps, but be warned, widgets that use some of those apps may not have been updated yet. I personally love the semi-transparent toolbar and 3D docks. Hope you have fun with it!.
I am liking the new OS, did a fresh install on my whitebook, it’s running well although full 3rd party product stability is still a way off (especially Missing Sync :(), noticing quite a few programs end up getting errors and crash. iChat has been giving me issues adding a new buddy (forum topic on apple.com), Time Machine is a very functional tool, the Dock I like, but I am glad modder have created darker colours.
On the whole I like it, but still some minor tweaks are needed to get me to fully like it.
I like it very much! There are some great features that I really love! iChat’s share desktop has been huge for me helping my g/friend with her computer at work (mostly what’s going on with the new stuff), quick look is brilliant!
So far the only trouble I have had is with my Canon scanner. My wacom works well and same with CS3
Leopard is cool! Alot of the bugs we have encountered at our Apple service provider support centre have been really minor, like how we lost our cursor for about 30 seconds after closing the finder whilst using quick look and cover flow,it was weird.
Either way They all seem to be things that can be easily fixed, I guess we shouldn’t expect too much from Revision A software straight from the start though, also the main bug some of our customers have reported is of course Adobe CS3 suite not being compatible, we found its only a few programs and Adobe are releasing patches very soon if not already, (they aren’t going to for anything below CS3 though).
One extra good thing to report is that iLife 08’s sexiness plus leopard features are a great duo to sell lots of MAC’s, at least it is here in the UK.
the best feature to me? the improved Photo Booth =D
I had to wait for my copy of Leopard almost a week later, but it has been fun learning about the new features. I really find the Quick Look and Cover flow helpful because I do freelance design. My MacBook Pro is much faster and I also ran a disk utility check after install just to make sure everything is ok. I have not had any problems yet, but because I use so many apps my dock is small. I am curious to know how many people are using the maximum RAM for their laptop? I have 2GB now and I may max it out to 3GB. Overall, I think Apple really did a great job and even my friend who uses PC was impressed with it (he will be converted someday). Hopefully Apple will fix the bugs you all have found soon but at least it’s nothing like Vista. :D
I got it, along with one of those new keyboards (wired)
Running it on an original macbook, Did a clean wipe and install, works great, have not actually had any of the reported problems or otherwise yet. The only thing i have not tried is my canon printer/scanner.
One pet peeve though, when i mount my network shares, they don’t show up as icons on the desktop anymore, i have to open finder and navigate to them. I hope they change this or someone releases a hack that puts the network share icons back on the desktop.
You can get network shares to show up when you connect. It’s under the finder prefs. In Finder go to preferences. Check the box under general to show connected servers on the desktop and you’ll be all set.
I work a helpdesk job. I like my job. Specialy because it gives me plenty of “buy a mac” posebility’s. But with the release of leopard more and more people call because there mail wont receive no more. There internet works perfectly and the acounts are configured exactly as they should. But they just cant receive no mail. Since i’m one of the people promoting mac this realy dousnt help my reputation. Help me out here…is there a newer type of security on Leopard that might block incomming mail? I try’d all the old ways of fixing it (usualy some anti virus)
For the most part I like Leopard. I find some of the visual style choices apple made down right baffling though. A light blue ball on a grey dock!? Totally invisible. The Time Machine Space Theme everywhere gets old real fast. The Transparent Menu is also ridiculous since every version of OS X released since 10.0 has become more opaque and now they throw a transparent menu at us. The drop downs are opaque and it looks weird.
Technically it seams pretty stable though I’m having issues with iChat and Mail. Mail enters a weird loop of errors because it can’t save a draft to an IMAP server then just crashes. iChat enters a loop of login error problems until the server says I’ve tried to login too many times and to wait and try again.
The iChat prob isn’t that big for me as I use Adium unless I’m trying to Screen Share. But the Mail problem is a pain in the &#^%.
Other then those two issues its fast peppy and pretty stable. Over-all I’m quite happy with it as long as those issues get patched ASAP
For the first version of Leopard, it’s pretty solid. I do enjoy it a lot. Bootup is plenty quicker, and applications run smoothly. Enabled QuartzGL for fun, and it runs much smoother. Rosetta runs Office 2004 and Maple 10 very well. Full 64bit support is another great kicker. Glad I spent the money to get a Core 2 Duo laptop.
At 2GB of RAM, Leopard still hasn’t paged anything to virtual memory. I’m definitely very satisfied with this operating system. I’ll be transferring over all of my Tiger applications from my G4 tomorrow, including iLife 06 and Macromedia products.
Oh, and Unreal Tournament.
Whee.
Well, I like the visual finish with leopard, but under the hood things are very choppy. The same theme everywhere (instead of aqua, unified, and brushed metal) is sooo much prettier and cleaner looking. But, when I went to transfer all my mp3’s back using the OS X SMB server (I backed up to my windows box) I only got about 10% of my mp3’s transfering back correctly. Worked fine under 10.4.10… So while it’s pretty and all, and it doesn’t crash, it bugs me when stuff doesn’t work that used to.
i have it installed on my mac mini 1.83 with a maxed out ram and hd. i love it. the applications are fast, love the new mail and finder, the 3d dock a bit less. like i said i love what apple has done with it but applications do crash from time to time, especially disk utility which i use quite a lot. most of the applications that i used in 10.4.10 work quite nicely in 10.5, except the occasional misbehavior in photoshop cs3. all in all, i give it a thumbs up for ease of sue, speed and improvements. however it does give me an unfinished feel to it. hopefully that feel will go away with 10.5.1 and 10.5.2 updates. cheers to Applegeeks and all mac users out there.
This is the only thing from Apple in the past 13 years that I haven’t liked. I’m not going to flame it, but I switched back to Tiger within the week. I find the behavior of Spaces to be unpredictable, choosing windows of applications I didn’t expect. Also X11 is the program I use most along with Safari and it has…issues. The worst part is the upgrade slowed things down for PowerPC machines and I own an iBook G4 and a first gen G5. Ah well, I still love Tiger.
I bought a new MacBook Pro right after it was released so it came automatically, I don’t like the transparent menu bar, but not enough to change it. Although the dock doesn’t bother me and I didn’t even notice that the drop downs were transparent. So far I’m only having issues running MS Office programs, they take forever to start and then I get a slew of error messages. Overall though, it’s well done.
A little late, but a little advice is generally welcome;
http://www.openoffice.org/ does a little more than MS Office (although I’m not so keen on the databasing…) and it’s free. It’s actively updated and I haven’t heard of any issues on Leopard.
There’s also Google docs which might fulfill your needs.
The only real problem that makes Leopard less usable is bugs when I’m exporting .pdf files using Adobe products, though a fix is promised this year.
Sadly I cant install leopard, due to it no longer supporting classic. I unfortunately still have to be able to run classic due to a program I need for work that the developer refuses to port to OSX. That and I’m running a little shy on HD space
Overall, I’m pretty happy with it. In the Dock, it’s definitely more difficult to see which apps you have running (the little blue orb is harder to distinguish than the old silver arrow.) Time machine crashed the first couple times (may have been more an issue with my new external hd) but it worked eventually. The Spaces feature is very cool, nice for multiple projects.
*cough* I’m angry at the fact that I upgraded and now can’t even get on my mac. I’ve tried everything I can so far to fix it but to avail. Now all I can do is wait till I get the chance to use my brothers mac to access my hard drive and get what I need off so I can reformat and start over cause my dumbass didn’t back up.
From all these replies, I am led to believe that Leopard is very buggy. Is it still possible to get a MacBook Pro with Tiger installed? Also, does HP have drivers? I like the new dock, though. But that’s probably because
WindowsGarbage doesn’t have a dock…I got Leopard two weeks ago and have been putting it through some tests. I haven’t found it to be that buggy. Spaces rocks my world… I use it so much, and stacks is great for downloads .. not much else past that tho. over all It seems to be pretty solid.
Windows Vista lost password…
Nice points……
Well, I got Leopard with my new MacBook Pro, and I’ve been thrilled with it. I’ve run into a bit of bugginess, mostly trying to mix Spaces and a virtual Windows. I like Stacks way more than I thought I would, and I think QuickLook is absolutely wonderful. I really love the new stuff in Mail and iCal, and Bento (the 10.5 only database program) rocks my socks.
My main thing is that I can’t find an IRC client that a) works and b) doesn’t irritate me, since X-Chat Aqua doesn’t have a build that’s functional, and I can’t get MacPorts working to use a ‘nix install. Also, it would be nice to have ShapeShifter up again.
Hm… have specific thoughts about pros / cons to switching cold turkey from PC to MAC? i’m waffling… used G5s are coming within range :)
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