My friend, who works for a very large multimedia software company, got his legit copy of Leopard today and just installed it on his Macbook Pro. So *SOME* people are receiving copies already..
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard First Impressions
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I just hope it will be at least almost as fast as Windows is. The other day I played with a Windows machine and was amazed. Any application started in Vista was operative immediately. Also, every time I clicked, the system responded immediately. With Mac OSX I am so used to wait a few seconds every time I do anything, I can get distracted between two clicks! With the processors that we have, Apple as no excuse to continue making such slow interfaces. So this is my main hope for Leopard. If not I will start running some applications in VMWare.
Exactly but no....guilty until proven innocent eh
Shoulda just let the poor guy alone and let him share the info he had. Honestly some people are so annoying...
yes, im a newbie here and i am not supporting piracy. i dont even have a mac. hope to buy one in nov. but i really felt quite disgusted how people jumped on him...people shouldnt even treat a thief in that way...
yes, im a newbie here and i am not supporting piracy. i dont even have a mac. hope to buy one in nov. but i really felt quite disgusted how people jumped on him...people shouldnt even treat a thief in that way...
No, your right. Thieves should have their hands chopped off.
I must admit though, I was hoping for more Screenshots...
i can confirm that the 9A581 build has been indeed posted on the torrent sites (one in particular)...
how did this get out?
how did this get out?
Jessica, I agree with you. This post will just encourage illegal file sharing. Which I think has two problems...
1. Lost of revenue for Apple. I don't want to lose Apple because of that and I don't want Apple to have to start with "Activation" to protect their product. They trust us, we should repay that trust by buying the product.
2. It just gives ammunition to the Music and Movie industries. I can hear the "I told you iPod owners steal music; that's why we need DRM" already.
Bull f***ing sh**. Apple makes it's money on hardware. Why do you think Final Cut Pro is number 1 everywhere? Because Apple was bright enough not to use a dongle and so for the past 5 years students have been downloading Final Cut and learning on it. Now that a new generation is up, what software will they use? And better yet, what hardware will they buy or convince their boss to buy?
and the new Logic Studio is finally dongle free aswell...
and i agree with the "Bull f***ing sh**" remark... an online post doesn't encourage people to do anything they don't want to do... people aren't bugs living on instincts... and they'll make up their own damn mind, regardless of what they READ...
Not directly through the installation, BUT they can and do track BitTorrent downloads.
Jessica, I agree with you. This post will just encourage illegal file sharing. Which I think has two problems...
1. Lost of revenue for Apple. I don't want to lose Apple because of that and I don't want Apple to have to start with "Activation" to protect their product. They trust us, we should repay that trust by buying the product.
2. It just gives ammunition to the Music and Movie industries. I can hear the "I told you iPod owners steal music; that's why we need DRM" already.
I agree with you at 100%
We don't to become like windows users !!! at least Apple respect us and respect is mutual !
Yeah, me too! The fastest I can type is around 30 wpm. I hope with the new Mail I can get up to 90 wpm. And since Safari is faster, I suppose we can browse the web faster? Can't wait!!
Without de-railing this thread further, I genuinely believe that because its Apple and also the price of Leopard compared to Windows equivalents will mean that I'm more inclined to believe people when they say they are downloading it but have also pre-ordered it. Maybe I'm being naive, maybe not.
When I found out from this forum that a genuine copy of Leopard had leaked onto the intarweb I googled around for the purported source. It would seem to be traced back to a specific torrent tracker which specialises in pre-release software, I do not know the name of the tracker and don't much care. However, the info posted suggested that the orignal uploader had access to a shipped batch of retail Leopard disks, which retailers had received over the weekend and were holding onto until Friday. From there, the torrent had made its way to various torrent sites and a newsgroup. There's your source.
However, given that the name of this forum is MacRUMORS and the contributors by inference derive the bulk of their information from non-sanctioned or "unofficial" sources, the sheer volume of squealing on this thread boggles the mind. Just where do these beknighted individuals think that all of the info they happily read about on a daily basis comes from? "Legal", Cupertino-approved press-releases? Yes, that would be informative.
However, given that the name of this forum is MacRUMORS and the contributors by inference derive the bulk of their information from non-sanctioned or "unofficial" sources, the sheer volume of squealing on this thread boggles the mind. Just where do these beknighted individuals think that all of the info they happily read about on a daily basis comes from? "Legal", Cupertino-approved press-releases? Yes, that would be informative.
Leopard was significantly slower than Tiger on the MacMini 1.5G4 I used to have.
That is interesting. At the same time, there is a thread running asking how to install Leopard from a .DMG file. So did you miss that thread, or is it ok to ask how to install pirated software after pirating it?
Mail RSS import
If you want to prevent this issue from happening open Safari first and let SyndicationAgent run at least once. I have the idea there are some things upgraded in the latest RSS reader that may cause migration problems. If you let Safari/SyndicationAgent run first before importing in Mail you may not see this issue. I'm not really sure about it, but it's certainly something you should try if you also want to import RSS feeds into mail.
If you want to prevent this issue from happening open Safari first and let SyndicationAgent run at least once. I have the idea there are some things upgraded in the latest RSS reader that may cause migration problems. If you let Safari/SyndicationAgent run first before importing in Mail you may not see this issue. I'm not really sure about it, but it's certainly something you should try if you also want to import RSS feeds into mail.
And I disagree with you 100%. Until Microsoft starts selling the hardware, which you are required to have to run their software, the same business model does not apply. However, Apple has lifted one tactic from Microsoft, and that is dropping support for the older models. Not because this would be too costly to support, but because by increasing the hardware requirement minimums (why should Apple need to do this if Leopard is better, faster and lighter than Tiger?) Apple guarantees that than any losses due to downloading are more than matched by others obliged to buy new hardware just to run the latest updated iTunes etc.