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:mad: I hear a lot of annoyances with Leopard on this website. I hope I don't experience any of them. This is my first mac (my reason for buying was Apple's innovation, the rock solidness of Tiger, and the nice additions in Leopard). I ordered it yesterday through macmall, it shipped yesterday and by the tracking ticket - it should be here today or Monday. Please let me be a happy mac owner!! :apple::rolleyes: I am really sick of Windows. WIN 98 second edition and XP professional were the best operating systems from MS. All the others I have not been happy with as there were too many problems and comapitibility issues. I did not dare to try vista. Many Many people I know upgraded to it or bought new computers and are sorry they did and are looking where they can buy XP disks.

Can any one tell me if these updates are required or optional? One thing I hate about MS is waking up in the morning to find that updates were downloaded and then spend 1/2 my day fixing the errors that are occuring.

Also, I probably may not connect my MAC to the internet (atleast not yet) I have heard that while Mac viruses are few and far between, Windows viruses still get downloaded to your MAC. While they can't do anything - they clog up your hard drive and eat disk space. Can anyone recommend a good virus protection, adware and bot removal tools for the mac? I would not want that junk clogging it up - should I connect to the internet.
 
MacFly123 said:
Honestly the only thing I want is for Leopard to start up and shut down as fast as Tiger did. It is still much faster than Windows but not near where Tiger was. And what's with 3 different shades of the blue screens at start up???
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The first grey-ish blue screen is similar to the black screen in Vista before it shows the pearl, it's just a buffer screen for what's to come next. The darker blue is when the login screen is loading, however, if you have auto user login, then it will skip that (although still showing the darker blue screen) and change right to the 3rd screen which is grey-ish blue which is a second buffer screen for the desktop (picture) loading.

Hope this helps a bit.
 
Back to my Mac...

I've got no problem with the name and I've tried it against four different routers and it works like a champ. My job is in NJ and I live in Sarasota Florida. I go to my favorite pub, The Irish Rover on Gateway Avenue in Sarasota, and they use a Linksys router. It finds my 24" iMac in my home, I run XP in Fusion, VPN into the NJ servers, do my work and order another Guinness. Life is grand!

And all these other software problems that people write about I just do not experience those problems. I have an iBook 1.4, MacBook 2.1, iMac G5 2.1, and an iMac 2.8. The only thing is once in a while I have re-enter my PW in Mail and Safari occasionally hands. Other then that Leopard is INCREDIBLE!

Dan Reilly
Sarasota, FL
 
aLoC said:
The Spaces bezel would be better if it was just the box and not the arrow. The arrow is confusing and unnecessary.
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I hope that I can simply turn off Spaces so I can use the key combinations for other programs without switching through Spaces.
 
shervieux said:
:mad: I hear a lot of annoyances with Leopard on this website. I hope I don't experience any of them. This is my first mac (my reason for buying was Apple's innovation, the rock solidness of Tiger, and the nice additions in Leopard). I ordered it yesterday through macmall, it shipped yesterday and by the tracking ticket - it should be here today or Monday. Please let me be a happy mac owner!! :apple::rolleyes: I am really sick of Windows. WIN 98 second edition and XP professional were the best operating systems from MS. All the others I have not been happy with as there were too many problems and comapitibility issues. I did not dare to try vista. Many Many people I know upgraded to it or bought new computers and are sorry they did and are looking where they can buy XP disks.

Can any one tell me if these updates are required or optional? One thing I hate about MS is waking up in the morning to find that updates were downloaded and then spend 1/2 my day fixing the errors that are occuring.

Also, I probably may not connect my MAC to the internet (atleast not yet) I have heard that while Mac viruses are few and far between, Windows viruses still get downloaded to your MAC. While they can't do anything - they clog up your hard drive and eat disk space. Can anyone recommend a good virus protection, adware and bot removal tools for the mac? I would not want that junk clogging it up - should I connect to the internet.
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I would suggest you keep the system clean of junk programs and hacks. At least for a while. Some of the reported issues are real but there are a lot of reported issues that occur only to a very small but vocal minority. I suspect some is caused by junk programs and some plug-ins.

Keep it pristine for a while see how well Leopard runs. After that add stuff at your own risk.

My systems runs well and never re-books or lockup, no issues with wireless either, it is a dream.

Welcome to the Mac community.

While viruses can be stored in your Mac, they are ussualy inside of files you download. Be selective of what you download. Delete any .exe files they wont do you any good and all they do is eat space. Check your download directory for junk you don't need.

As strange as this may sound to you. I would not worry about viruses, but if you must there is Norton Anti virus, and ClamXav at http://www.clamxav.com/
 
vansouza said:
You can right click on the printer icon and choose autoclose or some such and it will be gone when printing is completed.
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Thank you so much for that tid bit. The whole printer stays open after printing is done has been an annoyance to me. It was pretty much one of the only things that I didn't like about how my computer worked. Now... all better. Thanks!
 
shervieux said:
:mad: I hear a lot of annoyances with Leopard on this website. I hope I don't experience any of them. This is my first mac (my reason for buying was Apple's innovation, the rock solidness of Tiger, and the nice additions in Leopard). I ordered it yesterday through macmall, it shipped yesterday and by the tracking ticket - it should be here today or Monday. Please let me be a happy mac owner!! :apple::rolleyes: I am really sick of Windows. WIN 98 second edition and XP professional were the best operating systems from MS. All the others I have not been happy with as there were too many problems and comapitibility issues. I did not dare to try vista. Many Many people I know upgraded to it or bought new computers and are sorry they did and are looking where they can buy XP disks.

Can any one tell me if these updates are required or optional? One thing I hate about MS is waking up in the morning to find that updates were downloaded and then spend 1/2 my day fixing the errors that are occuring.

Also, I probably may not connect my MAC to the internet (atleast not yet) I have heard that while Mac viruses are few and far between, Windows viruses still get downloaded to your MAC. While they can't do anything - they clog up your hard drive and eat disk space. Can anyone recommend a good virus protection, adware and bot removal tools for the mac? I would not want that junk clogging it up - should I connect to the internet.
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Actually, Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) was the best Microsoft OS.

XP was just a minor upgrade called 5.1 (2000 was 5.0) that gave Windows 2000 better USB support and a couple of other unimportant items. Essentially, it is just a slowed NT 5. XP is/was just a way to get the unwashed masses to move to NT from Windows 9x DOS series...
 
What I want to see updated is that files associations persist through a reboot or logout when your using FileVault. Its very annoying to have it revert back to the defaults, or better yet, install a new program and the association changes, and you can't change it back to what it was... that's always a good time.

That and I hate sometimes in Safari, when I'm loading up a tab or two, I get a beach ball for like 10 secs as its struggling to load a particular page, then boom, its all better.

Don't get me wrong, I love Leopard :D. These are just my two main complaints.
 
cheekybobcat said:
I hope that I can simply turn off Spaces so I can use the key combinations for other programs without switching through Spaces.
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You can. Go to expose/spaces prefs, and uncheck "Enable Spaces" in the top-left.

You can also change the key combinations.

Also, XP was an important OS for Microsoft. 2000 and NT were aimed at business and professional users, XP made the power of that system available to Consumers. Vista was a mess because Microsoft broke their mould and tried to make a system appealing to both consumers and business users, and ended us satisfying neither. Apple are good at appealing to both due to the BSD base of OSX, and the great Aqua interface, as well as having great bundled first party applications.
 
I hope it fixes the problems I've been having with water reflections in games- AKA a graphics card update. My water reflection is very, very messed up now.
 
I would like to see the Airport Signal in Leopard, on my Tibook have a Full Signal and not just one or two bars. Since Apple hasn't updated it in any Airport Related fix, i have reverted back to Tiger.

Come on Apple.
 
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