Leopard, in a nutshell, is just plain excellent. More specifically its the most impressive release of OSX since its debut.
When Leopard was first released I reluctantly installed it over my perfectly functioning Tiger install, expecting problems. To my surprise I didnt have any problems at all, all my apps (besides those known to be incompatible with Leopard, mainly little 'haxie' type tools) worked fine. At first I wasnt too impressed with networking, it had big issues notably the crippled samba support which was a huge step back from Tiger. Also stacks were next to useless and lacked many needed options. Thankfully both of these as well as many other smaller issues have now been fixed.
I could not go back to using Tiger now Ive had Leopard for so long, its features to me are now invaluable. Spaces I use all the time now, especially with Vmware and Parallels which is extremely useful. Stacks is really nice and provides me quick access to the things I use most. Quick Look is fantastic, cant imagine it not being there with a quick key press to see exactly what a document, file, mp3, movie etc contains.. and with the archive plugin I have for it, I can instantly see whats in any compressed archive without opening it or decompressing it. Fantastic.
If I had to pick holes in Leopard, it would be with Spotlight... I personally find it a step backwards from Tiger.. and why on earth they replaced Tigers Spotlight search results window with something from Finder is just beyond me. But thankfully I dont use it much anyway, I prefer other tools such as LaunchBar or QuickSilver which do much more besides.
All in all Leopard cant be beaten in my opinion, not only is it the best looking and most fully featured consumer OS around, its also the most powerful combining the power and flexibility of unix/linux with the ease of use and functionality we come to expect from Apple.
Can you tell Im a fan?
When Leopard was first released I reluctantly installed it over my perfectly functioning Tiger install, expecting problems. To my surprise I didnt have any problems at all, all my apps (besides those known to be incompatible with Leopard, mainly little 'haxie' type tools) worked fine. At first I wasnt too impressed with networking, it had big issues notably the crippled samba support which was a huge step back from Tiger. Also stacks were next to useless and lacked many needed options. Thankfully both of these as well as many other smaller issues have now been fixed.
I could not go back to using Tiger now Ive had Leopard for so long, its features to me are now invaluable. Spaces I use all the time now, especially with Vmware and Parallels which is extremely useful. Stacks is really nice and provides me quick access to the things I use most. Quick Look is fantastic, cant imagine it not being there with a quick key press to see exactly what a document, file, mp3, movie etc contains.. and with the archive plugin I have for it, I can instantly see whats in any compressed archive without opening it or decompressing it. Fantastic.
If I had to pick holes in Leopard, it would be with Spotlight... I personally find it a step backwards from Tiger.. and why on earth they replaced Tigers Spotlight search results window with something from Finder is just beyond me. But thankfully I dont use it much anyway, I prefer other tools such as LaunchBar or QuickSilver which do much more besides.
All in all Leopard cant be beaten in my opinion, not only is it the best looking and most fully featured consumer OS around, its also the most powerful combining the power and flexibility of unix/linux with the ease of use and functionality we come to expect from Apple.
Can you tell Im a fan?
