Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard First Impressions

MacRumors · Oct 23, 2007, 09:45 PM

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 claimed to have installed Leopard as an upgrade to their iMac posted his experience. The Mac OS X upgrade took 30 minutes and these were his first impressions:

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• All my applications and settings were retained
• Time Machine asked me on the first time I started in leopard, which of my five external Hard Drives should be used for backups. I didn't have to configure anything else
• When I started Mail for the first time, it had to upgrade the mail database. After that, Mail is blazing fast!
• I told Mail to import my RSS Feeds from Safari but that didn't work!
• Reading RSS in Mail is nice to have
• Tasks in Mail appear even if completed. That might be a bit distracting for some people
• Mail is FAST! Seeing is believing!
• Finder: Well, the first time it ran, it hanged! After killing the process, I was amazed by the speed and coverflow!
• Quick View: COOL - GREAT FEATURE
• Safari is blazing fast!
• .mac has the option to synchronize settings and Dock items
• Stacks: I am not impressed. I like the downloads stack though. I had to manually change the path in Mail and Safari though!
• Spaces: I created 4 Spaces and I find it a very cool feature, especially the live ala expose preview
• Applications start instantly, especially iLife and iWork!
• iCal is much better. There is an inline editor and an event drop box now
• Contacts is more or less the same
• iTunes seems much faster than before

Apple's Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 operating system officially launches on Friday, October 26th, 2007.

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xUKHCx · Oct 23, 2007, 09:48 PM

way to go made it to the front page despite the best efforts of some to shout him down.

DMann · Oct 23, 2007, 09:48 PM

Thanx Arn!

xUKHCx · Oct 23, 2007, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMann

Thanx Arn!

Hint: It wasn't arn

mashinhead · Oct 23, 2007, 09:51 PM

does anyone else find it weird that the rss imports didn't work and that he had to manually create the path to the download stack? That doesn't seem like something they would overlook especially since time machine was made to automatically set up? you sure this is the absolute final version?

arn · Oct 23, 2007, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mashinhead

does anyone else find it weird that the rss imports didn't work and that he had to manually create the path to the download stack? That doesn't seem like something they would overlook especially since time machine was made to automatically set up? you sure this is the absolute final version?

It's possible that is default behavior in the Upgrade. Not to change your download directories.

I'm sure a default/fresh install would have them set correctly.

arn

gugy · Oct 23, 2007, 09:49 PM

overall most comments are good.
Can't wait for Friday

Legacy · Oct 23, 2007, 09:53 PM

I'd like to know what the specs of the system they were running it on and whether there will be speed improvements for G4 machines.

arn · Oct 23, 2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Legacy

I'd like to know what the specs of the system they were running it on and whether there will be speed improvements for G4 machines.

it was 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB of RAM. Original thread

arn

Sky Blue · Oct 23, 2007, 09:56 PM

1 down, 25(ish?) million to go

Glenn Wolsey · Oct 23, 2007, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by arn

it was 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB of RAM. Original thread

arn

Was about to ask this question. If the user is reporting "blazing" speed increases on a dual core MacBook Pro, I'm looking forward to seeing what it produces on my quad core Mac Pro.

psychofreak · Oct 23, 2007, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Glenn Wolsey

Was about to ask this question. If the user is reporting "blazing" speed increases on a dual core MacBook Pro, I'm looking forward to seeing what it produces on my quad core Mac Pro.

The Mac Pro is in line for the biggest improvements...

For me, the main changes should come in a speedier final Safari, as that is the app I use most...

xUKHCx · Oct 23, 2007, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Legacy

I'd like to know what the specs of the system they were running it on and whether there will be speed improvements for G4 machines.

They are running it on a 2.33 GHz C2D iMac with 3 GB RAM

j-a-x · Oct 23, 2007, 09:55 PM

Cool. So what does he dislike about stacks? I'm thinking they will be nicer than my current App launcher which is basically right clicking a folder in the dock.

mashinhead · Oct 23, 2007, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by j-a-x

Cool. So what does he dislike about stacks? I'm thinking they will be nicer than my current App launcher which is basically right clicking a folder in the dock.

Sounded like he thought it wasn't that amazing a feature. I mean when you think about it you can do this with the current version.

Eidorian · Oct 23, 2007, 09:56 PM

Looks like I'll be working with a clean ~/Library.

psychofreak · Oct 23, 2007, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Eidorian

Looks like I'll be working with a clean ~/Library.

Me too, but as I'll only have the uptodate disk to work with, its gonna take a while unfortunately.

milo · Oct 24, 2007, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by psychofreak

Me too, but as I'll only have the uptodate disk to work with, its gonna take a while unfortunately.

What makes you think the uptodate disk is anything but the exact same disk everyone else gets? Much less an upgrade disk that requires having 10.4 installed?

ricgnzlzcr · Oct 23, 2007, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Legacy

I'd like to know what the specs of the system they were running it on and whether there will be speed improvements for G4 machines.

I really want to know that as well. I feel like they really will be slower once Leopard is installed but I'm hoping for a surprise from Apple

Sora · Oct 23, 2007, 09:57 PM

So excited, can't wait until Friday.

elppa · Oct 23, 2007, 10:01 PM

Lots of comments about speed and responsiveness, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. There is definite room for improvement in Tiger and it sounds like Apple have done a lot of tweaking in this area to deliver great performance.

Safari respecting your original downloads preference is no big deal. They probably should have checked to see the downloads folder was set to the Desktop and then changed it to the Downloads stack. Just and oversight, a clean install would get the default right, but I wouldn't use that as a justification for a clean install.

queshy · Oct 23, 2007, 10:03 PM

Wow, the fact that the user reported speed boosts is great - I wasn't expecting a boost in speed...! Can't wait for friday...

DoreanGrae · Oct 23, 2007, 09:59 PM

Any word on Time Machine working with AirPort drives?

tbazani · Oct 23, 2007, 10:06 PM

so... Leopard it's FASTER than Tiger?

it will run FASTER than Tiger in my machine?

Eidorian · Oct 23, 2007, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by tbazani

so... Leopard it's FASTER than Tiger?

it will run FASTER than Tiger in my machine?

It'll be faster on multiprocessor machines.

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elppa macrumors 68020 Join Date: Nov 2003	Lots of comments about speed and responsiveness, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. There is definite room for improvement in Tiger and it sounds like Apple have done a lot of tweaking in this area to deliver great performance. Safari respecting your original downloads preference is no big deal. They probably should have checked to see the downloads folder was set to the Desktop and then changed it to the Downloads stack. Just and oversight, a clean install would get the default right, but I wouldn't use that as a justification for a clean install. __________________ Snow Leopard is animated

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