Happy. Not ecstatic, but pleased. The improvements outweigh the bugs and lack of old folder-in-dock behaviors. I have a lot of hope that it will get better with incremental updates. No regrets about updating.
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Is anyone actually happy with Leopard .. ??
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Sorry, a little slow here. Do you mean, if you wanted to rename a file/ folder and double-click-- it now only highlights the stuff before the file extension? If that is what you meant, I think I noticed that.
Only upgraded to Leopard for a couple of days and haven't really played around (or even seen the Apple clip about it
). But the one feature that I've already made great use of?iChat's screen-sharing. It's awesome! Much faster and simpler than using some other form of remote login (like Chicken of VNC, etc.) and pretty nifty.
Now tempted to upgrade the MB, too.
edit: Mainly 'cause the unsupported printer driver for my Samsung ML-2010 no longer wants to play nicely w/ 10.4.11 on the MB but has no issues on the iMac running 10.5.1 BAH!)
Very Happy
I Love Leopard and I have 2 other friends who bought Macs and have Leopard installed and we all have zero issues and love ALL of the features especially Spaces.
It's just amazing how the Mac community (switchers included) get so spoiled over stuff Apple makes that they just have to find stuff to talk crap about it.
We have Windows Vista Ultimate that cost $400.00 with about 80% of the main features Tiger can do but the Windows users accept it despite Vista's issues.
Then we have Mac OS X Leopard that costs a mere $129.00 and there's nothing in the computing world that offers better or more and the Mac users talk crap about it.
The one thing they don't say is, "I am going to use Windows now because Leopard isn't good enough".
I Love Leopard and I have 2 other friends who bought Macs and have Leopard installed and we all have zero issues and love ALL of the features especially Spaces.
It's just amazing how the Mac community (switchers included) get so spoiled over stuff Apple makes that they just have to find stuff to talk crap about it.
We have Windows Vista Ultimate that cost $400.00 with about 80% of the main features Tiger can do but the Windows users accept it despite Vista's issues.
Then we have Mac OS X Leopard that costs a mere $129.00 and there's nothing in the computing world that offers better or more and the Mac users talk crap about it.
The one thing they don't say is, "I am going to use Windows now because Leopard isn't good enough".
I am sorely disappointed with Leopard.
I had it the first day, and by the following Tuesday, I had moved all my machines back to Tiger.
I got a new MBP and it came with Leopard. Unfortunately, the MBP Tiger discs I have KP the machine when I try and downgrade to Tiger. I need my machines to work, and work correctly, and work all the time.
IMO, Apple is greedy and didn't want to risk delaying Leopard longer and wanted to make some Holiday cash. ANd now they're positive spin PRing their way through this BS release.
How can you tout a 'great, revolutionary feature' like Time Machine and it barely works correctly?
How can you try and integrate POSIX and ACLs and fail so badly?
How can the OS be so slow on new MBPs with 2GB or 4GB of Apple RAM?
How did these and other issues actually make it through QA?
Greed.
I'm not going to waste any more time with Leopard until 10.5.2 at the earliest.
I had it the first day, and by the following Tuesday, I had moved all my machines back to Tiger.
I got a new MBP and it came with Leopard. Unfortunately, the MBP Tiger discs I have KP the machine when I try and downgrade to Tiger. I need my machines to work, and work correctly, and work all the time.
IMO, Apple is greedy and didn't want to risk delaying Leopard longer and wanted to make some Holiday cash. ANd now they're positive spin PRing their way through this BS release.
How can you tout a 'great, revolutionary feature' like Time Machine and it barely works correctly?
How can you try and integrate POSIX and ACLs and fail so badly?
How can the OS be so slow on new MBPs with 2GB or 4GB of Apple RAM?
How did these and other issues actually make it through QA?
Greed.
I'm not going to waste any more time with Leopard until 10.5.2 at the earliest.
I love Leopard as well. I like most of the new features (still to decide how to use Spaces). I think Stacks is great (even more so with the translucent drawers), Dock is cool, Quicklook is the best and I use that very often, Preview is so much more useful now etc, etc. Yep Leopard is one great o/s
I'm not looking for a perfect OS, but I need something that works since my livelihood depends upon it. Copying data from another partition causes data to disappear? How does that one slip by?
I can run Vista just fine on a low-end notebook from 2002.Yes I'm very happy, and probably most of those who upgraded to Leopard. But I did notice that people who Erased and Installed had better luck than those who did an upgrade.
I'm currently running Leopard on a 2 year old iBook G4, and it runs beautifully with all the features and eye-candy. Try running Vista on a low-end 2 year old notebook.
I'm very happy with X.5.1. Quick Look is handy, the new Mail is nice, and Time Machine gives me unparalleled piece of mind. I didn't expect a revolution with Leopard, I am happy with solid progress.
Very happy, it's been rock solid for me. At first I was a little disappointed, probably just because I was unfamiliar with a few of the little changes and I had a few old Tiger habits. But a couple of days in, as soon as I started really making use of spaces, quick look, the new finder etc, I was really impressed by how much functionality it adds. I found it just a very well though out system, it's the little tiny changes that makes it what it is, and I would be lost if I had to downgrade.
Kicks ass.
Kicks ass.
I like Leopard myself but then I thought Tiger was the bee's knee's after years of Microsloth.
I did notice that the Leopard big update I got today wasnt so clean. It wanted to reboot then hung up with beachballs forever. I had to kill the power to get it to stop. After that it took a bit to start up but then is fine. It is fine now.
I dont really see much of real difference to me. still good
I did notice that the Leopard big update I got today wasnt so clean. It wanted to reboot then hung up with beachballs forever. I had to kill the power to get it to stop. After that it took a bit to start up but then is fine. It is fine now.
I dont really see much of real difference to me. still good
Thats because there is no reason to post that everything is working 100% as expected. Asking for help and posting problems is pretty much the point of online forums.
The people with problems are usually a loud minority.
Coverflow, ability to save search macros similar to the smart playlists in iTunes, previewing movies, entire powerpoint presentations, music, etc without having to open up applications, and Spotlight is a million times better.
If it is the bug I think you are talking about then you are wrong.
Copying data will not cause it to disappear because you still have the version you copied from. The problem comes when moving data and then the connection being interrupted.
Most people will copy, because that is the default when you drag and drop. To move you have to hold down the command key.
The bug I think you are referring to is in Tiger and Panther as well.
Only issue I have run across is a weird one (that I think is caused by LittleSnitch) where I am unable to run SoftwareUpdate correctly. If I have an update, I am still told that I am up to date, if that makes sense. So yesterday, when I was using iPhoto, it said that 7.1.1 was out, so it opened SoftwareUpdate to get it. SoftwareUpdate told me that i was up to date though. Very strange.
But, aside from that, love everything. Really do not like using Tiger now actually because i miss all the little things from Leopard. Also, to Byke, complaining about how it only got better speech recognition and bloat...
It is fully Unix Compliant now, it is 64bit, it has sandbox modes for increased security on applications, VNC is built into the OS for administering other systems on your network (screen sharing is my god! [ok not really]), iChat (which you cite as being bloated) can also use these functions so I could administer your machine (with your permission of course) from the other side of the planet!, sharing files is now something like 100x easier (seriously, this was one of the incredibly few things that I missed from XP, easy file sharing), a unified UI, a kernel that is more 'snappy', greater customizability of the OS, better wireless management, more and better parental controls, 1 time use guest accounts, XCode 3, InterfaceBuilder3, a better Finder (which I never really had an issue with before), QuickLook, Spaces, better conferencing functionality built into iChat, easier to setup and use Mail, better iCal, dynamic partitioning, ability to partition the startup volume, boot camp, signed drivers for windows, safari3 (now standard in Tiger 10.4.11), better de-interlacing in DVD Player, nicer interface for DVD Player, better Automater, Core Animation, and a Shiny Dock.
But, aside from that, love everything. Really do not like using Tiger now actually because i miss all the little things from Leopard. Also, to Byke, complaining about how it only got better speech recognition and bloat...
It is fully Unix Compliant now, it is 64bit, it has sandbox modes for increased security on applications, VNC is built into the OS for administering other systems on your network (screen sharing is my god! [ok not really]), iChat (which you cite as being bloated) can also use these functions so I could administer your machine (with your permission of course) from the other side of the planet!, sharing files is now something like 100x easier (seriously, this was one of the incredibly few things that I missed from XP, easy file sharing), a unified UI, a kernel that is more 'snappy', greater customizability of the OS, better wireless management, more and better parental controls, 1 time use guest accounts, XCode 3, InterfaceBuilder3, a better Finder (which I never really had an issue with before), QuickLook, Spaces, better conferencing functionality built into iChat, easier to setup and use Mail, better iCal, dynamic partitioning, ability to partition the startup volume, boot camp, signed drivers for windows, safari3 (now standard in Tiger 10.4.11), better de-interlacing in DVD Player, nicer interface for DVD Player, better Automater, Core Animation, and a Shiny Dock.
Happy
Well its my working system every day with large CS3 projects open in that sense of happy.
As software has been updated to be leopard compatible issues have faded into the mist.
People cant seem to distinguish between a buggy OS and legacy applications running unstably under it
Its a dam site better than when I installed Vista on my Dell PC 4 bits of hardware had no drivers out of the box (sound card no prospect of ever getting one) , 4 bits of utility software had to be uninstalled before the Vista upgrade would even run ! and then once up an running brought my not so old machine to its knees performance wise.
Well its my working system every day with large CS3 projects open in that sense of happy.
As software has been updated to be leopard compatible issues have faded into the mist.
People cant seem to distinguish between a buggy OS and legacy applications running unstably under it
Its a dam site better than when I installed Vista on my Dell PC 4 bits of hardware had no drivers out of the box (sound card no prospect of ever getting one) , 4 bits of utility software had to be uninstalled before the Vista upgrade would even run ! and then once up an running brought my not so old machine to its knees performance wise.