Anybody else worried about Leopard?

[MacsRgr8]

AERO does not actually refer to air it refers to "Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open" honestly.

Well.... it can: Aeroplane... sure airplane is used more often, but still.
It makes my (idiotic) reasoning much more fun....

 

[MacVault]

I'm just worried there won't be the degree of improvements, modernization, integration and polishing to the UI as I am expecting from the hype they gave by announcing the "top secret" features. In my opinion XP's UI in many ways is more polished, refined, intuitive and modernized and Vista's is even much better than XP's. OS X needs to catch up and "modernize" but I'm worried we're going to get basically the same UI as Tiger. I hope I'm proved wrong though.

 

[danny_w]

I wouldn't worry - 10.5 will be fine.

There may be some bugs, but bugs are a fact of life with all software (some just have more than other) and wil be for the concievable future.

I have brought 10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0 and 10.3.0 and never regretted it.

But if you have a perfectly working 10.4.x (or even 10.3.x) why would you want to go backward and put up with bugs that are not in your existing OS? Personally I would much rather wait until the new version is at least on a par with my current system. For example, until at least 10.4.3 Tiger was nowhere near as stable as Panther 10.3.9, so why bother? I tried it (Tiger) for a while and couldn't stand the bugs, so I reverted to Panther until it had a chance to become more stable. If you are going straightway to a new system, at least make a current bootable backup of your current system so that it is easy to go back if you decide to do so. Of course, the same holds true for system updates as well.

 

[Navintar]

I personally find Spotlight to be next to useless. Maybe i'm doing something wrong, but if I search for '.fla' i'd expect.. I don't know.. maybe '.fla' files to dominate the list?

Nope. The 'top hit' is a .fla file, followed buy a crap load of files with names like:

translation.htm

There isn't even an 'F' in that!

Only seems to be worth a hoot if you know the exact file name you're looking for.

Yes, you're doing it wrong.

Here is a way to search for files with a common file type.
Use spotlight in finder window. type space and enter to bring up an additional menubar. Click on a "+" icon on the right, pull down the "Kind" button, select "Other.." and "Name Extension". Then type whatever file type you're looking for. (you can then add "Name Extension" as your favorite search critiria.)

I agree that there could be an improvement, like an easier way of doing this. Nonetheless, I just need to point out that this feature is not absent from spotlight.

The spotlight field at the top right corner of the screen is meant to be a quick and simple way to launch an application with a correct file. It's not meant to be used to find out about structure of files in your system, nor to get any other information, rather than just launching it. I think this is a good example of Apple's philosophy-- they want us to be able to get things done fast and as simple as possible.

So, spotlight is not "next to useless," if you know how to correctly use it!

 

[bousozoku]

I'm new to Macs and I was planning on getting Leopard as soon as I could but after reading the last few post I see that some are opting to wait until 10.5.3, can someone tell me why they are doing this? Do you just wait for all the faults to be ironed out or don't you see it as being necessary to get it straight away?

The main reason why I was going to get it straight up was because of 64-bit, should I do this or wait?

My past experience tells me to wait to install it until at least one month after the initial release when 10.x.1 arrives. Even then, 10.4.1 was really buggy but better than 10.3.1 was with the bugs. Mostly things work correctly now but there are still issues here and there.

It's odd because they've had more time between 10.4 and 10.5 than between 10.3 and 10.4 and yet, it doesn't seem to be sorted. I'm not feeling as positive as I'd like.

One thing to remember is to make certain that all of your software is compatible with the new release. It would be a shame to need your machine for something and suddenly, the software doesn't work correctly.