Dude, I posted just after that message that it worked...
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard First Impressions
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I am sorry but you have the GM candidate and not the Retail Version. See attachments!
The final version of Leopard doesnt display the build version on the about window. You have to open system info to see it. Read my previous post!
But you are
If you ware an eye patch and have a parrot on your shoulder squawking walk the plank mate... you likely a pirate. You will still be what you are when it is delivered too. lol
If you ware an eye patch and have a parrot on your shoulder squawking walk the plank mate... you likely a pirate. You will still be what you are when it is delivered too. lol
All versions of OS X display the build number, the OS version and the serial number. Open About this Mac and click where it says 10.5, it will cycle though these details.
I wonder if this guy uses that many exclamations in his day to day life.
Hello, dear! How was your day today!!
Goodnight, kids!!!
Hello, dear! How was your day today!!
Goodnight, kids!!!
Does Leopard put more strains to Macbook?
Now that concerns me, too. I am currently really, really happy with my recently purchased Macbook being really, really quiet (the average temp is abot 57-61 when browsing using Opera, the fan is set to 2000rpm).
I was wondering if the increasing fan work is the norm in the upgrade's result, or just an isolated case. Could someone else confirm this?
Now that concerns me, too. I am currently really, really happy with my recently purchased Macbook being really, really quiet (the average temp is abot 57-61 when browsing using Opera, the fan is set to 2000rpm).
I was wondering if the increasing fan work is the norm in the upgrade's result, or just an isolated case. Could someone else confirm this?
I doubt that this is my "isolated case" cause I purchased my MacBook only 1 and a half months ago, and it runs great on Tiger - really really quiet
Ouch. Suddenly, my urge to upgrade has been down a little bit...
BTW, could you describe how noisy the fan noise now, compared to running under Tiger? Perhaps in rpm or how often the fan kick in?
Why worry what other people think of you, especially some anonymous forum "posters"**. As long as you know you are a good person inside then you should be content in that.
**"Posters" is a nice name for some of the people online...
Ouch. Suddenly, my urge to upgrade has been down a little bit...
BTW, could you describe how noisy the fan noise now, compared to running under Tiger? Perhaps in rpm or how often the fan kick in?
Ok let me put it this way... at the moment I am in tiger and I have:
FireWire drive connected to it (it takes energy and makes inside elements be warmer), I have Safari, several Finder windows, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Dashboard, iCal, QuickTime, Adium, iTunes and Photobooth open at the same time and i don't hear my MacBook - fan speed has never been changed from it's defaults - the system is running smooth and the sound of my fan going wild for couple of seconds occures very very rare
If I'm in leopard (which I installed on the FireWire disk for testing purposes) I can hear my fan going faster with noise very often EVEN if I just run standart applications like PhotoBooth. I wish I could test it without firewire drive to compare battery life in both systems but I can't at the moment.
What is more dissapointing for me is that interface in Leopard is not as smooth as in Tiger (and again I refer that to Intel GMA graphics in MacBooks) - dock not smooth (even in 2D view on the side), dashboard opens as if it has nerveous breakdown
, QuickTime goes fullscreen with gaps....The strange thing is that things like QuickLook or CoverFlow work amazingly fast and smooth so there's no doubt that slow-interface-problems is a bug and I really hope it's gonna be fixed in short time...
And there's one more thing - I've been trying to connect my Leopard to Vista PC over my home WiFi network for many hours now - no results - and in Tiger it is ok automatically - no problems at all
by the way - the similar story was with build 559 which I tested too
I've installed Leopard on both my iMac and my MacBook Pro. I can tell you with 100% certainty that battery life on the MacBook Pro has gone to hell. The main culprit, although there are many others, seems to be the .Mac sync process. If left on "automatic" (which I had done on Tiger) it seems to want to sync every 5 minutes. When it does it takes about 50-80% CPU, and takes about 2-3 minutes to sync. This long and CPU intensive task obviously causes the fans to spin up and the battery to drain quickly.
For just now I've had to change my .Mac sync to only 'once a day', which is certainly not ideal. Even with this process only going once a day, there are a bunch of other background tasks Leopard seems to do frequently that are draining battery life quite a lot. I'd say I'm getting at most 60% of the battery life I was getting in Tiger.
I do like Leopard overall, I just wish it wasn't killing my battery.
RSS in Mail.app
After using RSS feeds in Mail.app for the last two days, I can say that I am disappointed. They dont work so well like in Safari. Updating seems to be a problem and many times they disappear from Mail. Restarting Mail seems to temporarily fix the problem but that makes me use Safari as the default RSS reader
After using RSS feeds in Mail.app for the last two days, I can say that I am disappointed. They dont work so well like in Safari. Updating seems to be a problem and many times they disappear from Mail. Restarting Mail seems to temporarily fix the problem but that makes me use Safari as the default RSS reader
That is strange and as I may suppose there are some possible reasons for that
1) You are very loyal fan closing eyes for bugs and just happy with new OS
2) We have different MacBook - it may be different CPU (mine is Intel 2.0 C2D) or different ROM-versions (mine is MB21.00A5.B07)
If first is not true and neither is second one --- we certanly have poltergeist here
That is strange and as I may suppose there are some possible reasons for that
1) You are very loyal fan closing eyes for bugs and just happy with new OS
2) We have different MacBook - it may be different CPU (mine is Intel 2.0 C2D) or different ROM-versions (mine is MB21.00A5.B07)
If first is not true and neither is second one --- we certanly have poltergeist here
I am a fan but when I see a problem I say it
Cool. Never noticed that. What is the serial number? Is that to the computer itself or to the OS?
Cool. Never noticed that. What is the serial number? Is that to the computer itself or to the OS?
Of your Mac. Tech support will tell you to go there when they need it.
parallels
Anyone else have a problem with Parallels?
When I first installed Leopard, all was good including Parallels, but now it no longer works. In the in between, I tried to use the Boot Camp assistant to set up a small partition (which failed 3 times) and now Parallels won't load.
Anyone else have Parallels working fine?
Anyone else have a problem with Parallels?
When I first installed Leopard, all was good including Parallels, but now it no longer works. In the in between, I tried to use the Boot Camp assistant to set up a small partition (which failed 3 times) and now Parallels won't load.
Anyone else have Parallels working fine?
Make sure you are using the latest version of parallels. You can also try reinstalling the program if all else fails.
i would love to see how Leopard runs on a non laptop G4 Mac. a mini, or QS G4, MDD G4.
weird i see a page 18 but my post get put on page 17, when i click on page 18 page 17 get reloaded again. i wonder what thats all about
weird i see a page 18 but my post get put on page 17, when i click on page 18 page 17 get reloaded again. i wonder what thats all about