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Six Months Later: Did Leopard Live Up To The Hype?
computerworld.com — It has been just over six months since Mac OS X "Leopard" first shipped, bringing with it a slew of new features, a tweaked user interface, revamped underpinnings and -- as is often the case -- a healthy batch of complaints from users about problems. So how did it do overall?
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- inajeep, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1As a new user I wasn't aware of the hype but I can certainly tell you that there are issues w/ the Mac just like any OS + computer combo. The article didn't mention a couple of problems that I ran into as a new Powerbook user. Issues that many ran into. Wireless connectivity and Printing issues. The connectivity issue was resolved but I still can't print wirelessly to my printer. I chalked them up to normal bugs in a new release but it wasn't easy explaining them to my wife who just wanted the MacBook Pro to work.
- rebotfc, on 05/08/2008, -0/+1What printer is it, you can probably set up the driver etc via CUPS.
- MurphyMac, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1No computer is free of problems. Unfortunately bugs are deemed acceptable, even for Macs. I know what you mean about explaining to your wife.
- clak, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3Leopard was worth the wait, but there are definitely some wireless issues. I've gotten addicted to Spaces. At first I didn't use it, but then I started thinking about the implications of having several work spaces open at the same time and now I use it all the time. They fixed Stacks, which was a welcome change. iChat has freed me from having to explain to my sister how to do something on her Mac while on the phone. Now I just use the Screen Sharing function and show her.
Quick Look is cool. It opens video files faster than Quicktime, so I find myself using it if I want to get a "quick look" at something. Preview is SO MUCH BETTER than Adobe reader. Just absolutely wonderful. Of course, Quick Look opens PDFs just as fast, so it really depends on how much time you need to spend in whatever PDF you need to open.
Safari has the cool new tab functions. I love dragging a tab out to create a new window. The only peripheral I haven't been able to get to work with Leopard is my HP Ccanjet 4370. HP has been really slow only making new drivers. Other than that, I'm completely happy with Leopard. Don't know how I lived without it. - supermose, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1Time machine is awesome - its saved me a few times already. I backup quite a bit but I needed a file from a particular time and it was there. I know you can configure other things to do that, but it is great how it is built-in to the OS
- rebotfc, on 05/08/2008, -2/+1We haven't seen the best of Leopard yet, much of the changes were at an api level, with things such as CoreAnimation and ImageKit providing developers with new slick features.
Generally it is an evolutionary release and really isn't that what we want? Do we really want to learn a new UI every time the OS updates?
Features such as Timemachine, Quicklook and the new improved Preview have been invaluable to me. - rebotfc, on 05/08/2008, -0/+3From the article:
"The most alarming of Leopard's initial crop of bugs was a rare but reproducible glitch that involved data loss under specific circumstances. If a user moved files from one disk to another while holding down the Command key, and one of the disks became unmounted during the move, both the original and the copied items would delete themselves."
Okay so the author Michael DeAgonia doesn't know what the ***** he is talking about. This was not a Leopard bug, but an issue that was present in every single OS X release.
Furthermore the article goes on about irelevant crap and when it finally gets to the section on the 3rd page "Is the upgrade worth it?" he changes subject and harps on about the fact that Macs are intel based now. Give me some real analysis about the product!
Computerworld is retarded. - n0odles, on 05/09/2008, -3/+0I was too preoccupied with Ubuntu to know.
- rebotfc, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1what configuring xorg.conf ?
- dynacrylic, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1Did Leopard live up to the hype? Honestly, no.
My first computer experience was with an Apple when I was a wee-little-one. My parents made the switch on their own (from Windows to Mac) a couple years ago, and every time I visited home I was amazed by it. In November I took the "plunge" from linux to Mac and finally bought a new computer, a $3000+ MacBook Pro, with Leopard on it.
Quite frankly, I'm pissed. I'm tired of applications crashing, like Firefox, Skype and Photobooth, on a daily basis. I'm tired of constantly having to manually reconnect to my wireless network when it won't connect after 5 minutes of scanning for it. I'm tired of the laptop not "waking" after I open it.
I mean, I would rather have given someone $3000+ for a "normal" laptop, let them kick me in the gonads, install linux on it and call it a day.
I seriously am quite pissed over this. As a result of my experience with Leopard, I’ve not been recommending Macs, and have not purchased an iPhone.
It seems Leopard and Vista are both the "bastard" children of their OS family.
When Apple pushes out the new version, they better let everyone with Leopard (10.5) update to it for free. - krystalo, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1No.
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