“Apple unleased the latest incarnation of its Mac OS X operating system, called Leopard, on Friday, boasting 300 new features,” Darren Waters reports for BBC News. “But is it worth trading in your Tiger for a new big cat?”
“A new operating system is often more about anticipation than delivery. There are so many new features that a typical user will never think about, let alone use,” Waters reports. “The key question is: Will it change the way I use my computer for the better?”
“Leopard is a solid release which will please most Mac users without radically altering how they use their machine. For die-hard Mac fans it also does enough to distinguish itself from Microsoft’s Vista,” Waters reports.
MacDailyNews Take: As in, “it’s not a chrome -plated turd for which you waited 5+ years.”
Waters reports, “The introduction of Time Machine and Quick Look alone does enough to warrant the purchase.”
Full article, in which Waters states (like a true MDN’er, “many applications seem snappier,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Marcus” for the heads up.]
Well, aside from they typical font issues that arrive and a horrendous experience launch MS Word (I have to have it for clients), where it told me about 50 percent of my fonts were “corrupt”, I am quite happy with Leopard and astounded by the quick look feature, especially when using spotliight.
The applications I’ve tried all launch more quickly than they did under Tiger, which was no slouch. They are more responsive in use as well.
MW: response. Ghostly, how it knows!
rancher, you’ll just have to stop corrupting those innocent little fonts.
I installed Leopard and lost my admin account. Couldn’t update software, get downloads, etc. Also couldn’t fix it.
Solution: Genius Bar
rancher – fess’up, what have you been doing to those poor fonts?
Rancher has probably been making those poor little fonts go and play with the sheep in the vista so he can watch through the windows again.
My own Leopard update has worked fine except for a nasty problem trying to install Server on a Powermac Dual G5 where all I get is runaway fans. I know, maybe rancher scared the fans away cos they did not want to get corrupted like the fonts !!!
Time machine is incredible. Leopard is outstanding. Much snappier than Tiger on my aluminum iMac.
Interestingly, it took about 47 minutes to install (upgrade) Leopard on my iMac and only 22 minutes to do the same thing on my DP G5. Go figure… perhaps it had something to do with the amount of files on one machine vs the other? who knows.
All I know is that I am really diggin’ Leopard!
We’ve had a great weekend here in the Land of the Enchanted.
–George w. Bush
Albuquerque, NM
05/12/2003
(New Mexico’s state nickname is Land of Enchantment)
Screen sharing via iChat, and Back to my Mac.
Zounds! I love those features!
Time Machine for sure . . . i almost lost 2000 pictures last night (including wedding pics) because of some sloppy copying by me . . . i panicked for a bit, then went to Time Machine and within minutes, i had all them all back again.
@jack
same thing happened to me, default option of upgrading screwed up mail (losing all the preference panes).. tried archive and install, which turned my (only) admin account into a non-admin standard account.
Solution: Thank goodness for SuperDuper and cloned drives! Clean install followed by migration of user account from the superduper backup and all has been fine since..
What, no kneejerk abuse of the BBC?
Surely, for the sake of consistency, we should have someone posting that you can’t trust anything the BBC says because it’s in league with terrorists.
Those young fonts seem so innocent until they are seen hanging around with the older fonts like Garamond. You see them out behind the school smoking pot, and as Uncle Walter says, the next thing you know they’ll be shooting up heroin.
😀
MCCFR
The early crowd is much humbler. Those PM types are the ones who usually roast the BBC.
Darren Waters is an arsehole.
Look at the coverage he gave Vista when that launched – the BBC mob wet themselves in their excitement.
And here he thinks it’s just the odd lot called Mac faithful who will see Leopard as being better than Vista.
?!?!
Moron.
Quick Look is O.K.
Time Machine I have yet to turn on, because it is such a resource hog (disk space) and is so poorly designed. If you could boot from a Time Machine backup it might actually be worth something.
Really, Really?
“[Time Machine…] is so poorly designed.”
What? Are you smoking crack, or are you just out for provoking the decent souls here on MDN? I vote the latter, ‘cos every tech reviewer that’s tried TM says it’s brilliantly engineered.
What’s your real beef?
Okay, okay. You’re right. I’m sorry. I’m just such a total loser that nothing makes me happy. I saw the Grand Canyon and all I wanted to do was poop in it. Every new day feels like a terrible wasteful end to a desolately dark and cold night. I just… I don’t know, I just want people to love me, you know? Like, I want people to care — really care — and be like, come on over for dinner or something.
So I guess I’m sorry HueyLong. Because you’re right. Time Machine, well, it is pretty cool, which is actually kind of nice to say. Actually, it feels pretty good to not be down on it. Maybe this can be the beginning of a whole new phase for me. I hope so.
Gosh, thanks MDN. Maybe you just saved my life!