Aside from having to restart my AE to get it to see the attached printer, I have had no problems. Oh, and I had to update my ancient copy of Print Shop (just the free updater, not the new version).
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Leopard works fine for me... how about you?
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See, there are a lot of people very happy but these are the people (myself included) that don't make the effort to post their great experiences so what's left? Well what's left are the small amount of complainers that make it seem like it's the majority that's having problems and it ain't so.
Everything works good to great, EXCEPT finder.
Leopard's touted new Coverflow feature in Finder leaves me scratching my head here. On my Mini it's useless, there's a 2-3 second delay to render the image every time you select a file. Also, to make it worse, Coverflow isn't caching the thumbnails so every time I restart Finder has to re-render every image, taking minutes sometimes. Ugh... To add salt to the wound, why isn't Finder rendering all the files in the folder, in the background? It's waiting for me to venture into that area of the folder before it starts rendering.
Also, you still can't Shift-select contiguous files in icon view.
Finder is just bearable in OS X. I know Apple made some big improvements, having used Tiger for over a year I see it. But not enough IMHO.
I like the new sidebar though, everything's there that I need. Looks nicer too
Overall I'm kinda sitting on the fence with Leopard. It wasn't as huge a leap as I thought it was going to be. That's just my opinion though...
Leopard's touted new Coverflow feature in Finder leaves me scratching my head here. On my Mini it's useless, there's a 2-3 second delay to render the image every time you select a file. Also, to make it worse, Coverflow isn't caching the thumbnails so every time I restart Finder has to re-render every image, taking minutes sometimes. Ugh... To add salt to the wound, why isn't Finder rendering all the files in the folder, in the background? It's waiting for me to venture into that area of the folder before it starts rendering.
Also, you still can't Shift-select contiguous files in icon view.
Finder is just bearable in OS X. I know Apple made some big improvements, having used Tiger for over a year I see it. But not enough IMHO.
I like the new sidebar though, everything's there that I need. Looks nicer too
Overall I'm kinda sitting on the fence with Leopard. It wasn't as huge a leap as I thought it was going to be. That's just my opinion though...
Overall, Leopard works better on my G4 1.5Ghz 15'' PB.
A couple of quirks are moderately annoying. First, finder and spotlight crash every couple of days or so (no system-wide crashes, just self-relaunching of these applications).
Second, Word 2004 crashed on me twice in two weeks. This time, it is not Microsoft's fault because I had had just as many Word crashes in about a year and a half when the same PB was running 10.3.9.
Third, Spotlight refuses to search any new mail until I force-refresh indexing of ~library/mail directory.
Again, overall it is a good upgrade. Spotlight works much better that that in Tiger. Tiger's spotlight is shamefully bad in comparison.
Networking seems to work much, much better in Leopard, to the point that it has actually become useable.
A couple of quirks are moderately annoying. First, finder and spotlight crash every couple of days or so (no system-wide crashes, just self-relaunching of these applications).
Second, Word 2004 crashed on me twice in two weeks. This time, it is not Microsoft's fault because I had had just as many Word crashes in about a year and a half when the same PB was running 10.3.9.
Third, Spotlight refuses to search any new mail until I force-refresh indexing of ~library/mail directory.
Again, overall it is a good upgrade. Spotlight works much better that that in Tiger. Tiger's spotlight is shamefully bad in comparison.
Networking seems to work much, much better in Leopard, to the point that it has actually become useable.
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I wasn't, didn't know there was one! But now I am, thanks for the heads up.
Downloading now.
See, there are a lot of people very happy but these are the people (myself included) that don't make the effort to post their great experiences so what's left? Well what's left are the small amount of complainers that make it seem like it's the majority that's having problems and it ain't so.
If I'm not wrong, I read a thread this morning where you said that one of the things left to do was to make a thread about the good things of Leopard... (although, it's turning slowly into a complaint one [GASP!!!
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My previous post was probably too negative. I have a couple of issues and if they didn't exist, then I would be Leopard ambivalent. Take it or leave it - none of the 300 new features impress me a great deal. It's not crap, it's not dreadful - but I can't see any improvements over Tiger that make me more productive or my laptop more reliable.
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Works fine for me. The only exception being the Dock and stacks not being smooth. Also when watching videos (or something else that the graphics card has to redraw the screen a lot) the bottom area of the screen it jittery while dragging windows.
I had Leopard for some time in my MBP and a few days ago got the Tiger back to the system. It was nice and all but I think I'll wait for a good UPDATE for Leopard before going back.
Now with Tiger I have a smooth dock animation and everything runs very fast. Maybe some day I'll get back to Leopard again.
Now with Tiger I have a smooth dock animation and everything runs very fast. Maybe some day I'll get back to Leopard again.
Installed Leopard on Saturday. Clean install, after cloning my Tiger setup. Didn't get a chance to do much apart from reinstall my EyeTV software.
Sunday was spent migrating across my user and my wife's user from the Tiger clone. Then reinstalled some of my apps (didn't bother with ones I don't use much, and those which don't have Leopard compatible versions yet).
So far, it's all good.
My wife has a day off today, so I guess she'll be using the machine a bit today.
The 3D dock doesn't bother me at all (it's usually hidden anyway).
Stacks haven't bothered me yet, but that's because I only have the Downloads folder in the Dock.
Spotlight ROCKS compared to the Tiger version... really quick to start up those apps which I don't have a shortcut for in the Dock.
Spaces ROCKS. Very useful when installing all my apps again (one space for Finder windows, one space for Pages which had my document with all my keys and notes in, and one space for Safari when digging around to make sure I had up to date DMGs for all my installs).
Those little animations and everything seem smooth enough to me, no real change. (I'm on a generation 1 MBP 17inch, purchased in July 2006.... not true 64bit I believe )
I've not yet tested Time Machine yet (not set up yet). I need to check how that works with regards to having many users. Do you set up TM once, as an admin for all users (so my account, my wife's and also the Shared folder)... or does it need to be done separately. If the later, can each account's Time Machine exist on the same partition.
I need to have a play around with XCode now. That's for the Saturday when the missus is working (get to spend some 'my time').
EDIT: Wish I hadn't spent money on CandyBar2 now. See no need to have CandyBar3 to be honest... if there are any specific folders I create, I may wish to change the icon the manual way... but I'm quite happy with the standard look and feel to be honest. (In Tiger I was never really happy with the standard Look and Feel even in Graphite... which is why I used CandyBar2)
Sunday was spent migrating across my user and my wife's user from the Tiger clone. Then reinstalled some of my apps (didn't bother with ones I don't use much, and those which don't have Leopard compatible versions yet).
So far, it's all good.
My wife has a day off today, so I guess she'll be using the machine a bit today.
The 3D dock doesn't bother me at all (it's usually hidden anyway).
Stacks haven't bothered me yet, but that's because I only have the Downloads folder in the Dock.
Spotlight ROCKS compared to the Tiger version... really quick to start up those apps which I don't have a shortcut for in the Dock.
Spaces ROCKS. Very useful when installing all my apps again (one space for Finder windows, one space for Pages which had my document with all my keys and notes in, and one space for Safari when digging around to make sure I had up to date DMGs for all my installs).
Those little animations and everything seem smooth enough to me, no real change. (I'm on a generation 1 MBP 17inch, purchased in July 2006.... not true 64bit I believe
)I've not yet tested Time Machine yet (not set up yet). I need to check how that works with regards to having many users. Do you set up TM once, as an admin for all users (so my account, my wife's and also the Shared folder)... or does it need to be done separately. If the later, can each account's Time Machine exist on the same partition.
I need to have a play around with XCode now. That's for the Saturday when the missus is working (get to spend some 'my time').
EDIT: Wish I hadn't spent money on CandyBar2 now. See no need to have CandyBar3 to be honest... if there are any specific folders I create, I may wish to change the icon the manual way... but I'm quite happy with the standard look and feel to be honest. (In Tiger I was never really happy with the standard Look and Feel even in Graphite... which is why I used CandyBar2)
Problems with airport since installation, have to resort to rebooting at times.
Strongly considering going back to Tiger.
Strongly considering going back to Tiger.
Aside from my wireless Logitech mouse being sluggish/skipping (even after updating the driver to 10.5 compatible), no real issues. Overall, however, I would say that if you're happy with Tiger upgrading to Leopard is a bit of a money waster. No real "can't live without it" features, not much to even get excited about, really. Leopard does seem a little faster, but then Tiger was no slouch on my Mac Pro. Alas, most of us are suckers for the "latest/greatest"
Aside from my wireless Logitech mouse being sluggish/skipping (even after updating the driver to 10.5 compatible), no real issues. Overall, however, I would say that if you're happy with Tiger upgrading to Leopard is a bit of a money waster. No real "can't live without it" features, not much to even get excited about, really. Leopard does seem a little faster, but then Tiger was no slouch on my Mac Pro. Alas, most of us are suckers for the "latest/greatest"
It was wanting the latest/greatest that sucked me into Leopard, next time i'll wait... who am I kidding?
leopard A OK
Well, I tried an install over tiger intially, i'd been running that install for about 6 months and the leopard install was sluggish to say the least. So I backed up my mission critical data and ran a fresh erase and install.
Job's a goodun. Now runs great.
No probs with 3rd party aps so far apart from my dodgy version of photoshop cs3, but cant' complain about that.
So yup, enjoying it so far.
Well, I tried an install over tiger intially, i'd been running that install for about 6 months and the leopard install was sluggish to say the least. So I backed up my mission critical data and ran a fresh erase and install.
Job's a goodun. Now runs great.
No probs with 3rd party aps so far apart from my dodgy version of photoshop cs3, but cant' complain about that.
So yup, enjoying it so far.
Give me 10.4.11 with Time Machine and Quick Look and I'd be happy. There are too many niggling problems that make Leopard seem not ready for primetime
In general, Leopard has worked very well for me. I found out the hard way that Time Machine can be a little squirrelly if you cancel the initial backup. I have a usb memory stick that seems to lock up the finder at times. Other than that, the most problems I've had has been with Parallels shutting down properly.
For the most part, I'd say it's been good.
For the most part, I'd say it's been good.