I love cover flow – anybody who doesn’t must not deal with a lot of files (especially image files). As a web designer and photographer, cover flow is my second favorite addition (spaces being #1).

You can’t just say “this is useless” because there’s a lot of people who work quite differently on their computer than you.

And as for that guy comparing to vista … good grief. Vista offers the user nothing new but enormous transparent window borders that get uglier and uglier every day I use my employer’s computers. (But it does have BitLocker Drive Encryption!!!).

I am in a small business office and my iMac contains a ton of the office files that we use everyday. Since installing Leopard, no one can edit the files. They are all “read only”. And since installing the 10.5.1 update, no one can even see my shared directory.

This is a much bigger problem than stacks, though I do miss my hierarchical folders in the dock.

Sometimes I come here just to watch Mac-heads go crazy over nothing, lol. “OMG, he didn’t say Apple is perfect?! KILL KILL KILL!”

MDN. Your daily source of biggoted trash.

Of course it backs up the entire file. What do you want, part of your file on a restore or searching through the entire backup store to find the rest of your file? And how often do you actually do a restore anyway?

For a number of years, I worked as a designer/developer for one of, if not the largest backup software companies in the world so I do know a thing or two about backup software. And, in my estimation, Apple got it right with Time Machine. If only the other backup software was so easy to use and worked properly without all kinds of manual configuration.

You’re probably a Windows IT administrator–if you didn’t need to spend a lot of time configuring your backup software and applying security patches then you wouldn’t have a job.

That article has what this site is sorely lacking… fair unbiased reporting instead of blind brand support.

And yes fanboys, Apple did just what Microsoft did, put a lot of useless eye candy in Leopard to make it look like a more substantial upgrade than it really is. I am sticking with Tiger and XP (for the same reasons).

So keep protecting your Apple stock by reporting only the sunny side of Apple. Talk about a steaming pile…

Leopard has just been out for just overt a month. It has had a major bug fix already and some more will undoubtedly come shortly. Apple actually care a lot more for their less than gargantuan market share than Microshite does. Apple obviously want it to grow. So you can guarantee they put more effort into it than the lazy slobs at Redmond do on their poxy Vista.

If I plug a USB device into Vista, it tells me that I plugged in a device. I already knew that. Then it tells me the name of the device. I already knew that, too. Then it says it is searching for drivers. Well, I should hope so. Then it tells me that the device is installed and ready to use. Finally! I don’t need four notifications to tell me that Vista is doing what I expect it to do; I only need to know when something goes wrong. If I plug a USB device into Leopard, I get no notifications, but the device works in less time than it takes Vista to detect I plugged something in.

There are fewer steps to the second floor than to connecting a network printer on a home network to Vista. If I want to install the same printer on Leopard, I select it from a list, choose the make and model, then it works.

Paradoxically, I can connect to the VPN that runs on Windows at work with Leopard, but Vista gives me an error message to make sure the computer is on. If Vista were a comedian, it would win this round.

When I look at the user interfaces on both machines in the same room at the same time, OS X looks sleek and professional, but Vista looks tacky, dowdy, and derivative. Both have the ability to do good graphics, but only Leopard looks like it was designed by an artist. That’s subjective, I know, but even during the beta before I had a Mac, Vista’s UI looked repulsively tacky to me. it’s a shame, really, because nothing in Vista prevents a good-looking UI. It’s capable of excellent graphics, as the wallpaper proves; the only thing lacking is taste.

When I use Leopard, I operate my software. When I use Vista, I operate Vista. I constantly get error messages warning me of dangers and asking me if I’m really sure I want to type an A. Okay, I exaggerate, but it is annoying. It’s not security, it’s CYA, so Microsoft can say, “See, I warned you!”

Leopard cost $129. I got Vista for free as a beta tester, but it would have cost me $400, plus $50 a year for the Anti-virus software it insists that it needs.

Vista phones home every two weeks to make sure it has not been pirated, and if it thinks it has, it disables itself, making all my data and software inaccessible until I convince Microsoft it is not, or buy it all over again. In other words, Vista itself is spyware. Leopard has no “feature” that corresponds to the Windows Genuine Disadvantage.

Sorry, but I started the Vista beta test as a Microsoft fan and an Apple basher. Microsoft made me a Mac user! And I don’t need to bash Microsoft, because the obvious doesn’t need to be stated. So really, this post isn’t necessary, but I hope you were entertained.

Stacks aren’t useless MDN, you’re just not using them in a useful way like me and some other dudes on this thread.

Before I figured this use for them out I thought they were useless too. They remind me of the way I used to use pop-up folders in OS 9

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/update-leopard-problems-apple,review-1028.html

Right after their usual “Think before you Click” link, MDN goes on to point out one flaw in a pathetic attempt to prove they are not really lemmings and thus objective in their anti-anyone who criticizes Apple for any reason tirade. “See, we criticize Apple too so you can believe us when we say so and so’s a FUD mucker.”

Correct.

Always bought my RAM from Otherworldcomputing.com and never had a single issue, and they have a lifetime guarantee.

Apple store employees misinformed people about 3rd party RAM even stating it voids your warranty. This is a fallacy. Even Apple Support will tell you 3rd party RAM is just fine.

Yet another example of a shoddy product pushed out for testing on the public before it’s ready. The author is bang on, Apple is losing focus and turning into Microsoft.

The new AL iMacs have been noted for instability, so it’s probably more to do with the hardware than it is Leopard specifically.

I installed Leopard on both my machines (iMac G5 and C2D MacBook) the day it came out, and aside from one very minor glitch while installing, I have had 0 problems, 0 crashes, and 0 compatibility issues. If anything, it runs even better.

Time Machine does not do “snapshots”, as some Windows backup software can do, but rather uses file system information about what has changed to determine what to back up. In other words, after the initial backup, Time Machine is really doing incremental backups just like other backup software does, except much more efficiently because it doesn’t have to scan the entire file system to determine what to back up. The only difference in incremental backups is that Time Machine does it automatically rather than requiring someone to set it up.

I love Leopard and have not had a single problem with it.

I suspect Jobs saw the Bumptop interface and recognised that combined with multitouch this could be the way forward for the computer GUI. However in the meantime, he ‘suggested’ adding some stuff like stacks to Leopard. I bet there were tears and gnashing of teeth among the usabilty crew that day.

Bumptop 3d http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

(Wow! MDN word = evidence)

Saying that Macs don’t “like” 3rd party RAM is a gigantic myth and always has been. I’m sick of hearing it. There are only a handful of RAM manufacturers in the world, and there is a good chance that that 3rd party RAM you just installed was made by the same supplier Apple uses. Apple does not manufacture their own RAM.

This is just another example of foolishness, nonsense and quite simply, FUD. There have been many Rists and there will be more. Some of the naysayers in the past have come around and realized that Apple really has something going for it. Others are just not educated. Some, like Rist, are just pissed off because of a bad upgrade.

Leopard, in it’s first incarnation, is by no means perfect. Maybe there should have been more of an effort by Apple to force the “Archive and Install” feature as opposed to the “Upgrade” option. On the other hand, how can anyone in good conscience compare Leopard’s issues with Vista’s follies? That’s where I take exception. But as I said, at the end of the day, there will be more of this stuff written and it has to be taken with a grain of salt. The quality of the OS will ultimately dictate which is better, and we know that OS is OS X.

This is one writer. Say what you want about PC Magazine, but more often as of late they have given high marks to Macs, iPods, etc. So fuggedaboudit! Enjoy your Macs and rejoice! And smile knowing Rist is just another nonconformist.

But there are many Mac users who, like MDN, regard Stacks as ugly and/or pointless, and regret the loss of the hierarchical menu feature.

Apple, for those of us in this group, please either allow us to turn Stacks off, or modify it so that the hierarchical functionality is restored and the top item no longer confuses the picture.

Kind of a catch 22 hmm?

Hey, you don’t have to blow out the “Stacks” light to make the hierarchical folder loss glow brighter. They’re separate issues.

I, for one, think stacks are useful and cool. The curve of the stack is obviously (to me at least) to follow the natural curve of a mouse when you turn it with your wrist.

I like having the latest file at the bottom, and after a month I don’t actually mind the constantly changing icon in the dock.

Granted, I never used hierarchical folders, but cool, so add them in. Make it a software update. Do it through a third-party. In the meantime, don’t get rid of stacks. Documents and Downloads are exactly what I’d want there, and getting the last few files I’ve been working with has never been easier.

Since everyone airing my grievances with Leopard, I’ll throw in my two cents. The only problems I’ve had with Leopard is third party software not working right after the update. VLC player crashes sometimes and no longer supports the Apple Remote, and my Wacom Tablet drivers are screwy. But their isn’t much Apple can do about it, 3rd party vendors need to make their software Leopard compatible.

It’s a good thing every program I need for school and work is Leopard compatible, or else I would have really regretted the update.

The problem is, in Tiger I had alias’ of all my important folders in the dock. Now, the stack thing makes it a PITA to get to what I want… I have to make more clicks (just clicking on the “Show In Finder” button is an extra step from before).

Ok, enough ranting.

I agree… coverflow in the finder is not a favorite for me… but not a problem like stacks is LOL.

I made the mistake of buying Leopard the week it shipped. After 21 years of owning a Mac I should have known better, but I bought it anyway. The search features are much better, however, I hate the translucent menu bar, and the stacks feature. I see little that justifies the upgrade. Rist was right. Tiger was a much better upgrade. I guess we will be waiting for 10.6 now to fix Leopard. If some folks think that the Rist article is fear, uncertainty, and doubt, well too bad. Also, it is time to bury this crappy phrase FUD. It has nothing to do with reality. People are entitled to an opinion. It may not be what someone wants to hear, but it is a different viewpoint. There are many people that think Leopard is not all that great. It will be ok for folks not to like Leopard. There will be a tomorrow.

In the meantime, hopefully Apple will fix the flaws in Leopard. The biggest fear I have is that Apple becomes as arrogant as Microsoft and denies the flaws, and then calls the flaws a “feature”. Let us all hope that Apple keeps making neat stuff.

Have to use XP at work, and not only is my company not going to “upgrade” to Vista, it is ditching Windows and moving to Linux.

I’m certainly frustrated that 95% of the time that I switch locations (which I do frequently and always worked flawlessly in Tiger), my machine freezes and needs to be restarted… This is really frustrating as I’m a Mac tech and my major client has a wireless network for employees to use for personal web browsing and a wired network for company use… There are limits on the wired network, so I frequently use the wireless network, but then need to get on the wired network…

I, also, don’t like some of the appearance changes, but they don’t really affect my work… Stacks would work better if all applications were packages (not in folders), but even Apple breaks that rule with iWorks… The transparency of the menu is kind of odd looking and I don’t like the new dock on the bottom at all, but I keep mine on the right (and I don’t like the new look on that version as well either, but it’s much better than the bottom dock).

Personally, my favorite new Leopard feature is Quick Look. Time Machine (mostly) works, too. Lots of smaller features, including new Mail features and others elsewhere, I already miss when I have to use Tiger on other computers. I know Apple needs to fix a variety of features and stability issues. But, overall, I would be unhappy if I had to give up Leopard. By the time all tweaks are done, this will be a dynamite OS. Even as it sits, it already is.

Haven’t caught the return of the real Zune Tang® before today. Happy to see it back! (Or her, as the case my be.)

And, wow!, obviously I missed the unchecked-by-default change in notifications at some recent article I failed to read! Wow! Life is good again!

When Tiger came there where many similar issues…

Point being – it got POLISHED as updates came.

EXPECT Leopard to glow as time goes on.

I do.

So far Leopard’s stable on my G5, but sluggish on my G4 Powerbook, so I stick with Tiger there (dual boot). It’s only .1 though, give it time. I didn’t even install Tiger until it was .4