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On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with Leopard so far?

On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you with Leopard, so far? (10 = extremely happy)

  • 1

    Votes: 11 4.2%

  • 2

    Votes: 5 1.9%

  • 3

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • 4

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • 5

    Votes: 13 4.9%

  • 6

    Votes: 14 5.3%

  • 7

    Votes: 34 12.9%

  • 8

    Votes: 71 27.0%

  • 9

    Votes: 67 25.5%

  • 10

    Votes: 44 16.7%
  • Total voters
    263
9, because in safari3 when I open a new window I can't drag it into my previous window unless i open up another tab inconveniencing myself. Basically it doesnt show the tab bar in new windows.

And also only 9 because the apple guys weren't helpful @ the store. firstly they never had the 5 user pack and secondly they didnt act all nice and say, "we'll burn you a copy and allow you to come back when we get the 5 user packs". But on a side note i helped this guy who bought 3nanos and a touch, he almost bought an old style TV connector thing but i told him it's not compatible :D
 
willybNL said:
wow... So 1 of the most used apps don't work as it should... and still a 9.
I would love to be sysadmin at your place, I wonder when you do complain :D:D (Could you explain why still a 9 (if 10 is best?), that is real real high).
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Not most used app by everyone... Maybe it's one of your most used apps, but certainly not mine.
 
Jasonbot said:
9, because in safari3 when I open a new window I can't drag it into my previous window unless i open up another tab inconveniencing myself. Basically it doesnt show the tab bar in new windows.
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view - show tab bar or cmd+shift+t, on mine it then remembers this for all new windows

I'm about 6 it is really good but if i give it anything higher then it leaves no room for improvement.
 
Probably sitting around a 7ish, still a few bugs to be worked out, along with some programs that don't work (which isn't really Apple's fault).

It's a great upgrade, but obviously still some room for improvement.
 
Considering the extra time they took, I think that quality control and preparation of AppleCare was atrocious.

My Air Disk didn't work (even though it had in Tiger) and there was a related file, new as installed in an archive and install, that controlled the Air Disk, which had wrong permissions and Disk Utility couldn't correct the permissions, even when booted from the Leopard disc.

They had me do another archive and install of Tiger and then Leopard that trashed everything, and several hours later, I had to do a Leopard ERASE & INSTALL.

Really pathetic. The router is made by Apple and they had all this extra time, and this is the result. No excuse for not having Leopard more ready after we waited until October. I shudder to think what would have happened if they had unleashed Leopard on time.
 
Good, but...

The fan view is weird. The new icons are boring. Installation sucked. I don't find it any faster (but I am using the fastest iMac.) Time Machine does not work with smb shares, so I can't use my NAS drive. SMB shares have changed and required a redo of my Backup plans. Little things should have been added, like hide menu bar and double-click for new tab. Too bad Inquisitor does not work. Fewer, rather than more screensavers. Did I mention the icons suck?
 
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I'm loving it. 9/10.

Did an erase/format and install. It flies on my MacBook.
 
Ok everyone, so far the average is 7.79/10.

And yes, I dread wondering what would have happened had they released this in June, lol.

Leopard is a bit buggy, but I was expecting it to be - how can it be perfect? Tiger went up to like 10.4.10! We're at 10.5.0. Give it a few weeks and all the kinks will be worked out.
 
8 of 10.

-1 for the frelling semi-transparent menu bar with no way to make it solid if I want to...

-1 for a few other annoyances, like Netscape Navigator that seems to crash much more often, fiddling with new httpd.conf and user conf files to get Web Sharing (aka Apache 2) up and running, and that QuickSilver icon that just won't get the frell out of the Dock.

All in all: VERY happy, so far...
 
7...

I'm finding quite the amount of glitches here and there, and they are all from light and normal use...

I have had a few freezes, but nothing too bad.

The thing that is really bugging me is it is moving beyond the simplicity that I like on the mac, while I know they are good features (the path at the bottom of the window) they also add clutter for me.

I find the darker greys to be drab and the blue highlight in submenus is so gaudy it's distracting. I've actually changed to the grey theme because of it. The transparency is so much it feels like an amateur designer's mistake and the folder icons are drab and boring. Dare I say it but the whole thing LOOKS, ironically, vaguely orwellian, and feels a tad rushed. I feel like I'm looking at a parallel universe's Jaguar.

I LOVE the speed though, and the finder is bloody snappy as hell.

Spotlight is actually how I envisioned it should be now, and iCal is much much better.

My other apps like CS3, etc actually seem quite a bit faster and snappier too.

I'm feeling like stacks wasn't thought out enough, but I like the concept.

Haven't used time machine yet since I'm going to buy a massive drive for backing up. and Do a clean install on my internal.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the new finder bits such as the quicklook and spaces. I don't find coverflow to be very efficient, but it's pretty I guess.

I do, despite my other design peeves like the top menu bar, but I wish it could also hide itself ala the dock. My reasoning for this is that on my 30 inch display there is permanent burn in from the top bar. I think the translucency will help, but not entirely fix the issue.

I'm having the frontrow blank video issue which is bumming me out since I was really looking forward to using it.

Still going on stuff, but overall, on a quad MacPro with 6gigs of RAM this thing FLIES.

Fix the little glitches, etc, and I quickly move to a 9.
 
9/10 from me.

Lost a point because no more Sherlock (which I loved) but all seems go so far.

Just finishing the upgrade on my Wife's macbook, all looking good. So 3 machines upgraded (no clean installs in sight) and no problems to report.

I one happy chappy at the moment. :D
 
xUKHCx said:
view - show tab bar or cmd+shift+t, on mine it then remembers this for all new windows

I'm about 6 it is really good but if i give it anything higher then it leaves no room for improvement.
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:eek: I couldnt find it in prefs so i thought it didnt exist, im such a noob.
 
I'd give it an 8, and here is why:

It's fast, sure thing! Definitely a speed boost on Tiger. Start-up is quicker as well.

No crashes or hangs from any app (2.0 Ghz Core Duo MacBook, 2GB RAM).

The default smart folders are really terrible, they find far too much!

Safari is better than the beta. Spotlight is awesome and instant.

Love the new menu bar and the overall look, including the new window control widgets.

Loving Stacks, all my apps are two clicks away. Also like the fact you can actually drag and drop from a stack, didn't think you would be able to do that.

Some of the UI elements are a bit weird. Open the connection doctor in Mail and you get a remodelled drawer! Apps that were designed with icons for the pin stripe toolbars look a bit strange (see Transmit, CSS Edit etc.) so they should probably move across to the Mail / Preview style.

I have a theory about Apple wanting to implement a new UI and I think we see parts of it in Leopard, but not the whole thing.

Overall it's a really polished upgrade and I couldn't be happier!
 
I guess a 7...it doesn't really feel all that different and beside the dock and stacks, which I both like btw. But I do like the new photo booth effects even though the background thing isn't working to well probably because of my curtains and webclips seems usefull.
I do like it, but it feels more like a service pack or something :(

And it's weird but I actually mis the old Frontrow...it was more "entertaining" to start and move through.

Is it worth it to upgrade...I don't know :( I'd say, of course upgrading is always good, but this one really isn't that big of a improvement, but if you don't might spending the cash it's worth it.

PS: I haven't tried Time Machine yet, since I don't a have an external drive for it.
 
flopticalcube said:
After doing an erase and install, emptying out a few widgets and doing the 2D Dock trick my 5 is now an 8! No more choppyness or stuttering. I just wish Apple would simply make some of the hacks preferences.
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At first I used upgrade but after a few bugs and some loss of HD space I decided to do an erase & install. No more bugs present, everything is smoother and I'm very impressed with the Setup Assistants usage of my backup drive. All my iTunes and iPhoto settings, ratings, etc all exactly as they were in Tiger. I'm very happy with Leopard now.
 
Wish Time Machine was a bootable drive like Super Duper, other than that.......... Very NICE! 8/10
 
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don't like new reflective stuff - vista is more snappier on this things
time machine only backups hourly instead on instantaneous file modification
icons sucks
hating those toolbars with ballons or metal buttons
overall choppy

expecting optimization, velocity, serious reasons to use leopard.
lack of BIG BUTTONS SAYING "TURN OFF ALL THE F****** EFFECT" OR "TURN MY MAC MORE SNAPPIER" "STOP WASTING PROCESSOR CYCLES"
 
Masquerade said:
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don't like new reflective stuff - vista is more snappier on this things
time machine only backups hourly instead on instantaneous file modification
icons sucks
hating those toolbars with ballons or metal buttons
overall choppy

expecting optimization, velocity, serious reasons to use leopard.
lack of BIG BUTTONS SAYING "TURN OFF ALL THE F****** EFFECT" OR "TURN MY MAC MORE SNAPPIER" "STOP WASTING PROCESSOR CYCLES"
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Something must be wrong with your install. Leopard is easily just as fast as Tiger was on my 12" 1.5GHz PowerBook. And Spotlight is noticeable faster. Even the 3D dock is just as smooth and Spaces has no problem at all. Smooth as butter. Also, you do realize all the new effects are being dumped onto the GPU so your CPU isn't processing any of it.

You may want to do a Erase & Install if you did an upgrade in the first place.
 
I gave it a 7 as I have kept running into issues with Spotlight needing to reindex my disk. In turn, this has caused my performance to drop to extremely low performance.

This is certainly something that can be fixed later on, so it is not that big of a deal.

Also, I did do a clean install.
 
clean install, reloaded most apps (except CS3 and FCS2 because i can't be arsed this week), and no issues.

it's fast as hell too.

10/10. no problems at all. just works :D
 
QuarterSwede said:
Something must be wrong with your install. Leopard is easily just as fast as Tiger was on my 12" 1.5GHz PowerBook. And Spotlight is noticeable faster. Even the 3D dock is just as smooth and Spaces has no problem at all. Smooth as butter. Also, you do realize all the new effects are being dumped onto the GPU so your CPU isn't processing any of it.

You may want to do a Erase & Install if you did an upgrade in the first place.
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pb 867 here. fresh install. not butter
 
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