I'm rather a fan of Leopard beta 9A410 - it has the Aqua-ness of Tiger but with the cleaner look of Leopard ie no brushed metal/pinstripes - and check out that Matrix-style Terminal icon
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You probably did. I bought an MacBook Pro in March 06 - installed XP on it using Boot Camp the day it was announced...
I started using Mac's when I needed a laptop for my Cisco certification courses back in 2009.
Still owned a Pentium II MMX up to that point so I was already using older technology
( The Pentium II had replaced my 386DX which I owned from 1989 up to 2000 )
The PC's in the labs were really bad, you didn't have admin rights and most guys following the course used their work laptop but I had none so I bought a black Intel Macbook from a friend because I knew it was in a prestine condition.
Thus started with Snow Leopard up to El Capitan on my current 2012 MBP Retina.
When I bought the 12" Powerbook to replace my Macbook Air as a commute laptop, I went for Leopard.
I installed Tiger on it but was so used to (Snow) Leopard, I missed spaces, the brushed edges.
Only 2 things I really miss in Leopard are the Maximize Window feature and being able to add the Column Field "Date Added" to Finder , anybody knows any workarounds for that ?
Still owned a Pentium II MMX up to that point so I was already using older technology
( The Pentium II had replaced my 386DX which I owned from 1989 up to 2000 )
The PC's in the labs were really bad, you didn't have admin rights and most guys following the course used their work laptop but I had none so I bought a black Intel Macbook from a friend because I knew it was in a prestine condition.
Thus started with Snow Leopard up to El Capitan on my current 2012 MBP Retina.
When I bought the 12" Powerbook to replace my Macbook Air as a commute laptop, I went for Leopard.
I installed Tiger on it but was so used to (Snow) Leopard, I missed spaces, the brushed edges.
Only 2 things I really miss in Leopard are the Maximize Window feature and being able to add the Column Field "Date Added" to Finder , anybody knows any workarounds for that ?
There are three things that I wish Tiger had, from Leopard. I like Tiger, and Leopard, but Leopard looks so much better. I remember when it was released. Crazy to think it was 'new' at some point. Anyway, if Tiger had:
* Removed the Rounded Corners
* Removed the blue Apple
* Used a flat scheme instead of metal
* Had the dock black, and rounded.
Here's a minor annoyance with Tiger and earlier:
In OS 9 and before, right clicking(or Control-Click) on the desktop or in a finder window gave you the option to "clean up" as one of the contextual menu options.
In Tiger and earlier, you couldn't do this-clean up was only in the menu bar. It's a minor thing, but still a bit of an annoyance.
By contrast, Leopard and later work just like OS 9 in this respect.
BTW, Apple deleted a LOT of features in earlier OS X versions that slowly crept back in. If you watch the Panther keynote, one of the things they made a big deal about was the return of spring loaded folders. This was a feature of the Mac OS going back to system 6 if not earlier, and early reviews of OS X criticized the lack of it. It's a feature that-once I learned about-I loved but I'd guess many Mac users don't even know about.
In OS 9 and before, right clicking(or Control-Click) on the desktop or in a finder window gave you the option to "clean up" as one of the contextual menu options.
In Tiger and earlier, you couldn't do this-clean up was only in the menu bar. It's a minor thing, but still a bit of an annoyance.
By contrast, Leopard and later work just like OS 9 in this respect.
BTW, Apple deleted a LOT of features in earlier OS X versions that slowly crept back in. If you watch the Panther keynote, one of the things they made a big deal about was the return of spring loaded folders. This was a feature of the Mac OS going back to system 6 if not earlier, and early reviews of OS X criticized the lack of it. It's a feature that-once I learned about-I loved but I'd guess many Mac users don't even know about.
Labels.
Those did not return until Panther either. Had to make do with an Unsanity app in Jag for awhile because of that.
The Apple hordes however were ready to crucify Steve over spring-loaded folders. THAT is why he made a point of covering it in the keynote that year.
(I thought I posted something this already but there's no trace, maybe the draft was lost (I lost connection to the Internet for a few hours yesterday …)
I would have voted for Lion but there was the serious design mistake in iCal (Apple removed the sidebar).
Instead, for nostalgia, I voted for Puma. The GUI and packaging bring back happy memories of positive excitement around Apple.
I would have voted for Lion but there was the serious design mistake in iCal (Apple removed the sidebar).
Instead, for nostalgia, I voted for Puma. The GUI and packaging bring back happy memories of positive excitement around Apple.
Here's an interesting thing about labels-
If you pull labeled files from System 7(or 7.5-I forget exactly when labels were introduced) and look at the disk in 10.11, the labels will still be readable. Similarly, you can label a file in 10.11 and read the label in System 7, although this requires a bit more finagling to be able to do(since 10.11 can read but not write to an HFS standard volume-basically the only thing you can do is use a DOS formatted 1.44mb floppy).
I suspect that this may actually be the most backward and forward compatible Mac OS feature.
Tiger because I need the Classic environment for some games. Leopard takes away more than it gives back.
There's no benefit to using Panther over Tiger but it represents the milestone where OS X became a complete OS and was miles ahead of anything else out there at the time and it deserves recognition for that.
There's no benefit to using Panther over Tiger but it represents the milestone where OS X became a complete OS and was miles ahead of anything else out there at the time and it deserves recognition for that.
For me it has to be Leopard. It integrates well with WIndows and the software is still able to maintain parity with my professional needs, just. I also find it easy to switch between the G5 and my wifes Intel MacBook with Snow leopard. It just works which for me is what makes these the apex of Mac OS X, from Lion onwards it just tries to be too mobile for me. At least Microsoft had the good sense to step away from that with Windows 10 after 8's demise.
Wow.... so difficult!
Every release, especially OS X Server 1.x (not in this list), gives me sweet memories.
Mac OS X Server 1.x:
The first taste of the move from NeXTSTEP to Mac OS X. Aka "Rhapsody", this OS was something really different for us Mac users! It had the Mac OS 8 - styled "Platinum" look, but this OS could not be more different from Mac OS 8. This version was basically NeXTSTEP, and the setup and usage was more akin NeXTSTEP than Mac OS 8. But it gave the user the idea which way Apple was heading: a UNIX OS with an Apple-styled GUI.
Of course, the GUI changed dramatically over the Mac OS X "Client" development period, changing from "Platinum" to "Aqua" between DP 2 and DP 3, and the adding of the Carbon API.
Cheetah:
When OS X 10.0 came out times were exciting for being a Mac-enthusiast. Still on just a 500 MHz G4 (the fastest Mac at the time, while Intel was @ > 1 GHz...) , exploring the new Apple-NeXT OS. i.e. Mac OS X, was fun.
Bad times to try to support Apple (Mac OS 9 was pretty soon dead, the G4 was damned slow, and OS X was far from polished), but cool to play around with.
Puma:
An update to OS X which made it "useable" for the not-so-demanding user. 10.1 was faster than 10.0, but still, well.. eh...slow. Office v. X came out, so one could actually do some work.
Jaguar:
The first update that pushed Mac OS X really forward. Much faster than 10.1 and more apps were native running (Carbon or Cocoa). Also, the CD's of Jaguar were the most beautiful printed OS CD's ever. Mac OS 9 is now losing ground.
Panther:
Yep. Mac OS X 10.3 was the first Mac OS X release that actually made using Mac OS X far, far better than Mac OS 9. Fast, stable, looked great, good support, all the needed apps, etc. Along with the beautiful iMac G4, the Mac was back where it belonged: simply great.
Tiger:
Fully stable, looked good and Spotlight. Every Mac user was now onto Mac OS X. even the die-hard Mac OS 9 fans had upgraded by now...
With 10.4 came the first Intel version of Mac OS X. Times were going to change....
Leopard:
How cool to use a both PPC and x86 "universal binary" OS..? Leopard gave us a new look and the compatibility with the Intel world. Eithe ron a Quad G5 or MacBook Pro, 10.5 ran superbly.
But... this OS was the last Apple OS to run on PowerPC Macs.... From System 7.1.2 to Mac OS X 10.5.8, the PowerPC gave Apple a bumpy ride: ups and downs....
Oh well, just my $ 0.02
Every release, especially OS X Server 1.x (not in this list), gives me sweet memories.
Mac OS X Server 1.x:
The first taste of the move from NeXTSTEP to Mac OS X. Aka "Rhapsody", this OS was something really different for us Mac users! It had the Mac OS 8 - styled "Platinum" look, but this OS could not be more different from Mac OS 8. This version was basically NeXTSTEP, and the setup and usage was more akin NeXTSTEP than Mac OS 8. But it gave the user the idea which way Apple was heading: a UNIX OS with an Apple-styled GUI.
Of course, the GUI changed dramatically over the Mac OS X "Client" development period, changing from "Platinum" to "Aqua" between DP 2 and DP 3, and the adding of the Carbon API.
Cheetah:
When OS X 10.0 came out times were exciting for being a Mac-enthusiast. Still on just a 500 MHz G4 (the fastest Mac at the time, while Intel was @ > 1 GHz...) , exploring the new Apple-NeXT OS. i.e. Mac OS X, was fun.
Bad times to try to support Apple (Mac OS 9 was pretty soon dead, the G4 was damned slow, and OS X was far from polished), but cool to play around with.
Puma:
An update to OS X which made it "useable" for the not-so-demanding user. 10.1 was faster than 10.0, but still, well.. eh...slow. Office v. X came out, so one could actually do some work.
Jaguar:
The first update that pushed Mac OS X really forward. Much faster than 10.1 and more apps were native running (Carbon or Cocoa). Also, the CD's of Jaguar were the most beautiful printed OS CD's ever. Mac OS 9 is now losing ground.
Panther:
Yep. Mac OS X 10.3 was the first Mac OS X release that actually made using Mac OS X far, far better than Mac OS 9. Fast, stable, looked great, good support, all the needed apps, etc. Along with the beautiful iMac G4, the Mac was back where it belonged: simply great.
Tiger:
Fully stable, looked good and Spotlight. Every Mac user was now onto Mac OS X. even the die-hard Mac OS 9 fans had upgraded by now...
With 10.4 came the first Intel version of Mac OS X. Times were going to change....
Leopard:
How cool to use a both PPC and x86 "universal binary" OS..? Leopard gave us a new look and the compatibility with the Intel world. Eithe ron a Quad G5 or MacBook Pro, 10.5 ran superbly.
But... this OS was the last Apple OS to run on PowerPC Macs.... From System 7.1.2 to Mac OS X 10.5.8, the PowerPC gave Apple a bumpy ride: ups and downs....
Oh well, just my $ 0.02
Not exactly a feature (this is very obscure) but here goes:
– http://stackoverflow.com/a/10561129/38108
(I have no idea whether Apple continued to use brokMACS in that way in Yosemite or El Capitan.)
there is an application called Right Zoom that allows you to do that
Thanks pochopsp , found it .
Now I only need Date Added as a possible column in Finder , and Leopard is at the same level as Yosemite as far as I'm concerned
EDIT : Found kind of a workaround only for the Download Folder , did look for this earlier , don't know why it didn't come up in my searches
https://discussions.apple.com/message/7491568#7491568
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While I love using Tiger on faster G3s and G4s because of TenFourFox and other various applications that only run on Tiger and above, I have a soft spot for Panther. I was at the release day at the Apple Store for 10.3 and got the cool dog tags for it, and even though application compatibility is less than perfect these days for Panther, I still like the look of it and it runs wonderfully on older G3s as well. I used it for a long time on my old PowerBook G3 until I convinced my dad to upgrade it to 10.4 because I wanted Dashboard back around 2006.
Unsanity died when they could not get Shapeshifter to work in Leopard (although they eventually managed to get APE working).Unsanity, haven't heard that name in a while
Shapeshifter was their major revenue generating product. Lots of people who used that app met the blue screen after updating to Leopard and the rest went downhill from there.
They got things working in Leopard. Snow Leopard was the Unsanity killer.
You'll have to travel to the Internet Archive now for Unsanity stuff. Download links sometimes still work if you find the right snapshot.
OK. I know they never got Shapeshifter working though. Unless you have a copy that works with Leopard?
Might want to check the internet archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20130405162940/http://www.unsanity.com/products
Says 2.5 was the last version for ShapeShifter.
EDIT--Checked compatibility lists. SS isn't 10.5 compatible either.
APE and Leopard was the cause of my one and only bad OS X upgrade experience - the dreaded blue screen. I didn't even know what APE was at the time, another application (I can't recall which) had installed it in the background to provide some services.
After the panic subsided and I dug out an old PC to get online with I found some instructions here on MacRumors to remove it via single user mode.
Yeah, I had APE on one particular laptop under 10.4.11. Upgraded to Leopard, it restarted and…blue screen. I knew something was wrong because I had done the upgrade on a different laptop before this one so it was off to Google for me.
Fortunately for me, by the time I upgraded this was a well-documented thing. I used TDM to remove APE and got on with it.
But not having Shapeshifter was a big disappointment.