OK I've read enough. I am staying with 10.4

[TheStranger55]

I bought a Mac in July and it seems kinda soon to spend $130 espicially when Apple could've released Leopard at the end of 2006 but delayed it cause of the IPhone in which I would have gotten Leopard for free.

Now if Apple gave anyone who bought a Mac during the Leopard delay period a discount then yeah I would get it. I see no reason why not to since they did give those who got screwed buying the Iphone a few months early a $100 coupon. Why Apple doesn't do this for those who got screwed buying Macs a few months due to the leopard delay in order to make the Iphone I don't know.

I have no interest in Time Machine (rarely ever need a critical file that badly), I don't care about coverflow (I mean I have no problem opening apps to view the contents of a pdf file or a movie, I mean it's just 2 clicks away) and stacks who cares.

Doesn't seem $130 worth it to me. Of course I might break down if Apple forces me to by releasing apps requiring leopard soon. Hopefully I can weather this out and get 10.4.6 and skip Leopard altogether.

 

[adamfishercox]

A) They gave iPhone owners $100 because they bought iPhones at $200 more than the price drop. You never bought Leopard at any price.

B) 10.4.6 is old. We're up to 10.4.10 with 10.4.11 coming out soon.

 

[TheStranger55]

I mean 10.6 not 10.4.6

Still the thing was if it wasn't for the Iphone I would've gotten Leopard with my mac. I only bought the mac a few months ago and now I gotta pay $130 for a new OS. I think I'll just stay with Tiger and wait for the next incarnation instead of Leopard unless I get a really good deal or Apple starts releasing Leopard only software that I need.

 

[bogman12]

what's there to love with leopard? Is it worth messing up the smooth operation of Tiger?

Eye-candy: really worth it?

 

[bacon]

No its not spotlight indexing. My MB is still sluggish and spotlight finished a couple hours ago. There is something else going on.

It could be.

After I upgraded, I immediately installed Xcode. Spotlight was still indexing when Xcode was done installing, but I think Spotlight doesn't count anything you did after it started indexing. So, after it's "done indexing" you can search but it didn't, in my case, index Xcode yet.

My computer was still sluggish so I checked out "top" and it showed a process eating a lot of CPU, it was the mds process, basically spotlight.

Bottom line, when spotlight is usable for searches, it's still not necessarily "done" it has to catch up to what you did to your computer during the initial index. That's my theory anyway.

 

[ksgant]

More than eye-candy. I (finally) got it delivered today and took me 24 minutes to archive & install and it's been running smooth ever since.

I happen to like the new Stacks, and Spaces and the new look. I DID turn off the 3D dock and went with the much cleaner 2D dock. The new iCal is great, along with the new Finder. The new Finder with it's preview is worth the price of admission alone (for me at least).

So far, everything is running faster than it did with Tiger. Mail is instant load, Safari "feels" faster (I know, this is all subjective and there's no way for me to quantify it at all).