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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard First Impressions

macrumors.com — Despite Apple's efforts to restrict seeding to select individuals, it appears that the final build of Leopard has made its way outside of Apple. One individual who installed the final version of Leopard as an upgrade to his iMac posted his experience.

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  • zeazzz, on 10/26/2007, -1/+65"First impressions," "walkthroughs," "reviews," "previews," and "how-tos" should be illegal without screenshots.
  • m3t00, on 10/25/2007, -3/+54Apple makes most of it's money on hardware which is why their software doesn't run on your PC. Torrents of new Mac OS releases help hardware sales in the long run. Same reason Apple doesn't inconvenience people with registration hell.
  • Dog_Paddle, on 10/25/2007, -3/+46Actually, it appears that the most recent leak on P2P sites is real.

    I would take this with a grain of unsalt
  • SirBotchness, on 10/25/2007, -0/+42Boy he sure thinks mail is fast.
  • naden, on 10/25/2007, -7/+43Use your head people. Clearly Leopard has been sent to the thousands of Apple Stores and resellers around the world in order to be available in two days. You don't think SOME of the owners/employees of these stores or VIP customers might have just maybe opened and installed one of these ?
  • brendanryder, on 10/25/2007, -12/+45read the ***** story you *****, not the headline
  • inactive, on 10/25/2007, -10/+41I prefer good interfaces and applications
  • michaelb1, on 10/25/2007, -1/+30dugg for proper and appropriate use of the word "*****"
  • inactive, on 10/25/2007, -7/+31yar http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3855637/APPLE.MAC.OSX. ...
  • inactive, on 10/24/2007, -3/+26wow Time Machine really does work well, it managed to get a joke from months ago and put it in this thread!

  • Karmavs, on 10/25/2007, -0/+20Throw us some verbs, please!
  • gravis86, on 10/24/2007, -9/+28Your Trollfu is weak.
  • NeoRicen, on 10/24/2007, -3/+20Just because he says something positive doesn't make it fake. What do you expect, a list of complaints only? He even posted screenshots later on in the comments.

    Why is this so hard to believe, someone downloaded Leopard and commented...
  • elsenormalo, on 10/28/2007, -8/+23p0tent1al,
    The fact that you wait to get your tech news on youtube resembles the fools that get their news from the National Enquirer
  • eridius, on 10/24/2007, -3/+17Pretty much everything in that article is true, judging from the pre-release seeds. I will point out that he had to change the download path in Mail and Safari because it retained his previous settings, not through any fault of Leopard.
  • natedouglas, on 10/24/2007, -0/+14http://www.defactoweb.org/src/pic1.png

    Work for you?
  • gibler, on 10/24/2007, -5/+19The Finder feels much more snappier.
  • MrKrinkleDude, on 10/24/2007, -9/+22Installed it last night to a sandboxed FW drive. Works like a charm. Love the new Finder, really like the "Downloads" stacks, can't see using it for anything else though. Firefox and Azureus works and are faster, but Safari is a speed demon now--just needs an ABP plug-in and I'd dump the fox.

    Will I still buy it? Hell yes. If you or someone you know can get an on-campus edu rate at $69 it's very well worth it. Everyone gets the "Ultimate" version. ;-)
  • zhlimnick, on 10/25/2007, -2/+14oh come on its only less than 2 days away...
  • jmholloway, on 10/25/2007, -4/+16holy crap those pirates are fast. you know the strange part is I would be totally okay with pirating vista (although I did buy my copy) but I would feel really bad about pirating os10.5
  • threemagic, on 10/25/2007, -1/+12I do not see 1 misspelled word. I do see a very big grammatical mistake.
  • alex1015, on 10/25/2007, -2/+13you broke the first rule of usenet
  • Drax0n, on 10/25/2007, -1/+12The reason apple doesn't make you register or SHUDDER activate OSX is because apple is one of the few companies left on the planet that does not treat their customers like criminals
  • inactive, on 10/24/2007, -0/+11good to know you guys care about my spelling so much, here, have 5 internets
  • WoollyMittens, on 10/25/2007, -0/+11Did you guys actualy read the goddamn article?

    "All my applications and settings were retained"
  • misterparry, on 10/25/2007, -2/+13if apple was really worried about people downloading this early, they wouldn't be selling it for 110 bucks, they know every mac user will eventually buy it, because that's what we do
  • Bungler, on 10/25/2007, -2/+13Does the Leopard Finder still write DS_STORE files on non-Mac partitions?
  • deadbaby, on 10/25/2007, -0/+11The main reason I bought a Mac was due to downloading the original OSX 10.4 developers build. For the first time I got to try OSX out, risk free, for an extended period of time. As soon as I found good replacements for all my Windows apps I was ready to switch. Without the leaked build I seriously doubt I would have made the move.
  • WoollyMittens, on 10/24/2007, -3/+14World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2142 natively and all your windows games.
  • natedouglas, on 10/25/2007, -0/+11? My OS "source folder"?

    Leopard is significantly faster than Tiger.
  • superkendall, on 10/25/2007, -2/+12It's not like Apple is free to-rewrite how FAT works. Where would YOU put metadata, filesystem genius!!
  • Wander2000, on 10/25/2007, -3/+13I wonder if you install this before Friday will Apple brick your Mac?
  • Veight, on 10/24/2007, -3/+13Yes it can.
  • inactive, on 10/25/2007, -3/+13hahahah Dugg down for telling me to think. Thinking is not popular here on digg.com. We, the userbase, prefer actions, not words!
    (please not that was satire... thanks)
  • inactive, on 10/24/2007, -2/+12os ten
  • NeoRicen, on 10/24/2007, -0/+9He posts a couple in the comments thread, mainly him in photobooth, which isn't very pleasant mind you.
  • inactive, on 10/24/2007, -0/+8In Vista, the .DS_Store is actually hidden now. Nice that Vista is hiding all files starting with a . now like all other OSs.
  • dragon76, on 10/25/2007, -1/+9If you're using an Intel Mac, you will DEFINITELY see a speed increase. No part of the OS runs under Rosetta anymore.
  • natedouglas, on 10/24/2007, -0/+8Not that it helps any, but I suspect Leopard will be faster on every computer that can run it. Other than the eyecandy, I don't really know of anything that could slow it down -- and so far, it's impressed the hell out of me.

    I was one of the people who thought the extra features were worth little to me. "Why should I upgrade?" Well, so far the speed and stability have really impressed me. Granted, I've been running it for only nine hours, six of which I've been sleeping.

    This is head and shoulders above Tiger in every way. Except LEAP support, which seems a bit buggy.
  • NeoRicen, on 10/25/2007, -6/+14I highly doubt it, the only dubious thing he says is a speed increase, Apple wouldn't do this sorta marketing. The speed increase could also be entirely in the guys head. As for features, nothing he says is at odds with what we already know, I'm sure it's legit.
  • theprez, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7You can use Tinkertool to turn that off.
  • pierrefilms, on 10/24/2007, -1/+8The on-campus education rate is still $69. It's $116 on the education part of the online store.
  • superkendall, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7It has to, where else is metadata going to be stored on filesystems that do not support it?
  • vondur, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7*All my applications and settings were retained *
    That means that he did an upgrade, not a wipe and install.
  • AdmiralKarelia, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7Murphy's Law dictates that the moment you sell it, your Mac's hard drive will die and you won't have a 10.5 disk to reinstall with.

    Just keep it. At $69, you'd better not be complaining. That's half the price of what's already the most inexpensive retail operating system (I'd better not hear any "Linux ZOMG!!!1).
  • civdis24, on 10/24/2007, -0/+7or if you have 4 friends who are interested, get the family pack for $190, which has 5 licenses. Split it 5 ways and thats under $40 a person.
  • DirtySnachez, on 10/24/2007, -3/+10I hope you find common sense and stfu.
  • solid12345, on 10/25/2007, -0/+7Funny to see how digg users make so much excuses for pirating movies and music but if you dare suggest pirating Leopard they go crazy and digg you down.
  • natedouglas, on 10/24/2007, -2/+9Most of us have been reading the ***** out of every loose byte mentioning Leopard ever since Steve announced it. Every Apple site out there has been swamped with information since Day .001. Apple's posted a lot of information on their own site. In addition, there've been many developer previews that we've been studying with bated breath.

    It's not like we woke up this morning, came on Digg, and were like, "whoa... a new OS? MUST... INSTALL..."
  • MacParrot, on 10/24/2007, -1/+7Dammit! Now I want a hot chocolate
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