I was bored last night and Installed Leopard.
Only had one problem during installation user problem of course
Put in Leopard DVD, Restarted, Began installation I thought itd be okay to close the laptop at this stage Nope!
Went to install it again by that stage, the installation had wiped the HDD, and the Drop In DVD I have requires that OSX be previously installed Crap!
So I had to install Tiger, then Leopard
Luckily I was doing a clean install, so I didnt loose any Data.
It installed fine this time around, and I had a bit of a play around. I havent dug around a lot yet, but there are a few obvious changes. The dock is different, it no longer has the little black arrow pointing to open programs but a little blue light under them.
I havent tried using spaces yet.
Stacks are pretty cool, I think my Documents and Downloads folders were automatically put on the Dock in a stack very cool.
I was able to drag my applications folder down there to (somehow I couldnt on Tiger?) When it is clicked, it opens up a quick transparent screen of all the apps in the folder fantastic! I think this happens when a folder has too many things to stack. This is perfect for the Applications folder, basically all of my programs are accessible with a single click if they arent on the dock.
Finder seems much better laid out with a few bells and whistles which make it much easier to navigate to the user folders, apps ect.
The only incompatibility Ive found so far is Guitar Pro 5 wont work, it installs then crashes and burns when opened. I sent off a report to Apple (I didnt check Guitar Pros site, perhaps they have a patch).
Another issue I found was that programs I installed didnt have their own Icons after dragging the Applications folder onto the dock if you opened the Applications screen by clicking the folder on the dock. They had what I assume is an icon to indicate there isnt a program Icon. When the icon was dragged into the dock it was fine
There are a few bugs to iron out, but everything seems to be working well enough for me to use it.
I dont understand what everyone are complaining about really. I guess if youve been using Tiger for years, change isnt always good. But as an ex windows user using OSX for less than a month, I find the changes Ive experienced make things much easier/better. Yes there are some eye-candy upgrades with no value but most of the new bits and pieces do make it much easier to navigate (for me at least).
If I was a Mac power user and depended on it for my work or whatever I wouldnt have upgraded yet, but Im really just playing around with it at this stage, and I think the updates to the interface are mostly really helpful.
Cheers.
Only had one problem during installation user problem of course
Put in Leopard DVD, Restarted, Began installation I thought itd be okay to close the laptop at this stage Nope!
Went to install it again by that stage, the installation had wiped the HDD, and the Drop In DVD I have requires that OSX be previously installed Crap!
So I had to install Tiger, then Leopard
Luckily I was doing a clean install, so I didnt loose any Data.
It installed fine this time around, and I had a bit of a play around. I havent dug around a lot yet, but there are a few obvious changes. The dock is different, it no longer has the little black arrow pointing to open programs but a little blue light under them.
I havent tried using spaces yet.
Stacks are pretty cool, I think my Documents and Downloads folders were automatically put on the Dock in a stack very cool.
I was able to drag my applications folder down there to (somehow I couldnt on Tiger?) When it is clicked, it opens up a quick transparent screen of all the apps in the folder fantastic! I think this happens when a folder has too many things to stack. This is perfect for the Applications folder, basically all of my programs are accessible with a single click if they arent on the dock.
Finder seems much better laid out with a few bells and whistles which make it much easier to navigate to the user folders, apps ect.
The only incompatibility Ive found so far is Guitar Pro 5 wont work, it installs then crashes and burns when opened. I sent off a report to Apple (I didnt check Guitar Pros site, perhaps they have a patch).
Another issue I found was that programs I installed didnt have their own Icons after dragging the Applications folder onto the dock if you opened the Applications screen by clicking the folder on the dock. They had what I assume is an icon to indicate there isnt a program Icon. When the icon was dragged into the dock it was fine
There are a few bugs to iron out, but everything seems to be working well enough for me to use it.
I dont understand what everyone are complaining about really. I guess if youve been using Tiger for years, change isnt always good. But as an ex windows user using OSX for less than a month, I find the changes Ive experienced make things much easier/better. Yes there are some eye-candy upgrades with no value but most of the new bits and pieces do make it much easier to navigate (for me at least).
If I was a Mac power user and depended on it for my work or whatever I wouldnt have upgraded yet, but Im really just playing around with it at this stage, and I think the updates to the interface are mostly really helpful.
Cheers.