LOL I wish
I am guessing you installed leopard and are having a fine time with it then? have you noticed any of these bugs? what about random missing small features, just small ones like the movie playing in the dock sort of thing; or how the view options don't keep their settings consistently on a per-window basis [this is confirmed on the Apple support forums]? how about the graphics bugs that put lines all over the screen [also confirmed by many others on the Apple support forums, not just me] and is pretty severe. while not a bug, the stacks look pretty bad in the dock depending on what is inside of the folder/stack ----- most of the time they end up looking all jumbled up with icons overlapping in a not-so-good-way; also the hierarchal menus in the dock for folders is a huge blunder as far as i am concerned [again as are others as posted all over the net and apple's support forum]; and the menubar looks like it's permanently disabled, like a button would have been in previous OS X versions when a window wasn't in the foreground, it doesnt appeal to me at all, nor does the 3d dock. another dock 'what the?' is when you have it positioned on the left or right of the screen, and Stacks can't be viewed in the 'fan' style, only the grid ----- the fan format could have still worked but for some reason it just isn't an option.
MORE?
in the finder, you cant hide
just the toolbar or
just the sidebar. they go hand in hand, in tiger you could hide them separately. i dont use the sidebar because it takes up way too much window space, so I could slide it over all the way to the left in Tiger; NOT in leopard. you can only resize it down a bit but it is still there. The only way to hide it is by choosing 'hide toolbar' which obviously then hides the
toolbar and the sidebar. but wait, i want the toolbar. it has nothing to do with the sidebar but for unknown reasons in leopard it is tied to the visibility option of both. for one that makes no sense; and it sucks and should have 2 separate options to hide them......................
smart folders, at least on my install are very limited and lack the other searchable attributes that were available even in Tiger. if you make one and try to add an attribute to search by and choose 'other', there is nothing there. that list was full in tiger..............
my 2 year old firewire drive has worked perfectly up until the 1st time i mounted it in leopard. i was copying a few files to it and the OS crashed [only had that happen probably 5 times the whole time i used Tiger]. but no kernel panic screen was shown, it just froze ---- btw does anyone know if there is even a kernel panic screen in leopard? because it just froze, after 10 minutes of sitting there hoping i did a hard restart. then, my FW drive would not mount. Disk Utility could not fix it and would only offer to reinitialize it! luckily I had DiskWarrior installed and it fixed it [the directory was all messed up, another gripe that Apple's Disk Utility can't do this common repair after all these years] --- once again, look on the apple forum and you'll find tons of similar reports of people who had their drives screwed up, with no option except to reformat it.
don't get me too wrong. Leopard does have some good things about it. but for the 1st time in my personal macintosh history, i feel that they released it to the public way way too far ahead of schedule to meet their deadline and think it has had some major consequences on the quality and polished expectations that apple is known for. And this is all from a newly erased, clean install of leopard.
there is really no way to refute the point that apple was behind schedule and didn't allow time to finish up as planned or adequately test Leopard because months ago, jobs showed off things like the customizable Stacks that didn't even come close to making it into the retail version. maybe the 'iphone taking resources away from OS X' was real enough to have actually caused this, i don't know. what i do know is that if it was even quickly tested on a mac pro with a radeon x1900 card, which is a very common configuration for pro users, the graphic glitches would have
definitely been discovered as they are very noticeable and reproducible and widely reported. even apple phone support is now saying that they know of the problem and are working on it. that was just flat out irresponsible to release the OS with such glaring problems such as these when apple obviously knew that they existed.
i could go on for pages but i won't, because nobody will read it anyways
i posted this to warn people that have not installed it yet to wait at least a couple weeks to see if apple fixes some of this mess. worst case, you might have big hard drive problems and data loss. best case, maybe you like it and get lucky
