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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
Much quicker, great redraws, love the translucent menu bar (I wish there was an option to make it hide like the dock).
Safari seems like a whole new build, it's never been faster.
Spaces and Stacks has sped up my productivity in just the first day.
A few minor hangs but I seem to have it all in hand and am very, very happy.
I give it an 8. Maybe a 10 after bug fixes and refinements.
I use Vista as well and I thought it deserved a 6.
But after using Leopard I realize that Vista is more like a 4.
 
10/10

Install was painless, Time Machine "Just Works", everything "Just Works" for that matter. :p

The only issue I had was a minor one with EyeTV not finding my channel lineup, but around midnight that worked too, so I just chalk it up to server issues on their part. :rolleyes:

Apps are blazing fast to open, and I love the translucent menu bar. Spaces is a cinch to use, and for crying out loud: the calendar shows today's date without having to be running!!! :D
 
Leopard is AMAZING the only thing i have had crash on me is Mail.. and it has only crashed once... but everything else runs nice and smoothly without any lag...:apple::apple:
 
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.

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
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Only a nine? Blasphemy!

Seriously, the grades here are awfully skewed. This OS is clearly not perfect; it cannot earn a 10. It seems like the highest mark given should be an 8.
 
It certainly feels snappier but it has brought freezing issues on my new iMac. It will freeze up randomly. The mouse won't work upon wake up. I don't know whether to wait for apple's alu iMac fix or do clean install of Tiger pre iMac update 1.1!!
 
Disappointing

I was already completely impressed with all of the previous OS X releases. So its hard to go up from there.

This upgrade is basically for Apple zealots who think that anything Apple does is perfect and for new soccer mom types who have switched from Windows over the past 2 years. For those of us who use these professionally, not much to offer. Speed seems to be slower on both of my machines and all of the new features are mere eye candy, rather than offering new functionality that will assist in my workflow. However, its an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' type situation, because I was happy with the past versions and saw no major flaws.

I'm disappointed with the speed, I had issues installing and in general this OS gets away from Apple's focus on superb usability with less extra junk cluttering your drive, so I'm giving it a 4 out of 10. I've had applications crash (Safari/Mail regularly). Spaces is great, but that's about all it has to offer. Apple seems to be focused on eye candy, which is sad because usability has suffered.
 
queshy said:
Originally it was a 9, for me.

<snip>

Then I had to do an archive-and-install - it's working fine now. But for that annoyance (Cost me around an hour due to researching the problem), I am lowering my rating to an 8.
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Exactly the same. And while i'm here, a big thanks to the MR community for getting us panicking folk through the BSOD :)
 
My iBook G4 and iMac G5 are loving it. It runs so much better than tiger (well not SOOO much better, but there is an improvement). I love it, theres tons of little things that make everything much nicer and easier.
 
Interesting... lots of... "Awesome, perfect, I love it... Itunes crashed, I have the BSOD, Mail hangs, Safari wont work on flash pages, Time Machine crashed, etc. but I give it a 9/10!"

LOL.... let us imagine an exact scenario, only the review was of Vista. "Worked fine I guess, then I got on IE and a page with heavy flash was slow to load. I use the web all the time so I give it a 1/10"




ash =o)
 
ashVID said:
Interesting... lots of... "Awesome, perfect, I love it... Itunes crashed, I have the BSOD, Mail hangs, Safari wont work on flash pages, Time Machine crashed, etc. but I give it a 9/10!"

LOL.... let us imagine an exact scenario, only the review was of Vista. "Worked fine I guess, then I got on IE and a page with heavy flash was slow to load. I use the web all the time so I give it a 1/10"
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Excuse me kind sir, but ARE YOU MOCKING US? Heh heh... *cough*
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One of the machines I loaded it on to was a Powerbook G4 1.67Ghz with 1GB Ram. Immediately after install (Archive and Install) the OS ran like a dog - jerky Dock animations, pauses before apps loaded etc. and I was getting really worried. But then I realised Spotlight was re-indexing and once that was over the speed and feeling of solidity increased exponentially.
Given that the PowerBook is relatively low-spec I am impressed with how well Leopard runs on it.
The one issue I have on all my machines is the incredible amount of time - and lack of information during - the function Repair Permissions takes from Disk Utility.
I therefore give it an 8/10
Vanilla
 
I gave it a 3.

It's too choppy in the gui. zfs is only read only (and won't even read zfs pool made on my solaris box). Safari is a free download from apple. Spaces has been around on *nix for getting on for 10 years now. 64bit.......like that really means anything.......Stacks....well that's just putting a link on the dock and that could be done in tiger. Quickview feels like a novelty thing (for my usage patterns).....Screensharing.......thats (quite literally) VNC............Front Row......I already have an AppleTV............Time Machine....I store everything on my mirrored solaris server. Have i missed anything off ? I can't really think of much else...........Oh......"One more thing"......surely they should be giving away iLife with this OS ?

To me, honestly it feels more like theme pack than a new OS.
 
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