Will your computing really improve with Leopard?

Well why did you upgrade from OS 9, or Windows 98?

You can email in the same way, your images will look the same, as will the internet with both operating systems compared to current ones?

 

I not going to see any improvement to my workflow. It will break some apps and I'll have to wait a little while for the right patches. Some of the slower machines will strain under the new finder with more demands it makes. In a few months all the bugs will be worked out and it'll be back to the productivity of 10.4.

 

Spaces + New Finder + Time Machine (maybe) + New Front Row + other misc improvements = worth it for me.

 

The new finder actually slows me down, mostly because the icons are too small. (On the left panel)

I don't see my self using spaces, as it is I have way too much crap loaded and RAM is an issue. System preferences are way more organized, which will actually help me a bit. I need to change around network configs depending on the office network speed. (We have multiple gateways, and far too many people using them)

Stacks are really sweet. The download stack is very useful. You can download stuff, and drag it right into the trash very easy. (They are so close) You might be asking, why download something and trash it ? (Well, thats part of my testing that I can't get into)

I created a Stack for screenshots. With that gamer inside me, I tend to take a lot of them. After like 30 screenshots I have found you need to move them out of there, otherwise the performance suffers severely.

The new calendar is nice, I can *finally* accept events from a mailing list or forwarded to me. I still can't believe the work arounds I had to use with tiger, it really made life hell.

The "web clip" although fun, I don't see having many practical uses. Its fun to toy with none the less.

The biggest feature for me is timemachine. I don't need to leave my laptop on all night so Deja Vu can back it up. I also don't need to worry about backups for my girlfriends laptop. I just setup a share on my server, pop in a 1TB drive and I am good to go. I don't see my self using the "go back in time" feature so much. However, the peace of mind knowing I have hourly snapshots of my data will make me sleep well at night.

I can't wait for leopard, I really like it. But I can honestly say there isn't much screaming to me that I need to upgrade. (Not the Vista way of screaming there is no reason to upgrade and/or I would regret it)

 

Its funny because the only thing i don't care about in Leopard is the stacks. I think its just whatever but i kinda like opening folders and getting stuff the old fashion. Also i love the new finder it doesn't slow me down one bit, and Time Machine really is my favorite feature of Leopard as well its just to easy to use. You can back up all you computer seamlessly to one drive

 

Yes it will help. Leopard is a great productivity upgrade (more so than e.g Jaguar to Tiger)

The Finder. Current one sucks a big bunch. You got to love the new left pane, the sharing options.

Quick look. How often I just want to quickly inspect a media file? I do it often for work, but the current way of doing it is by opening the file.

Dock: spring loaded!

And more...

 

Great looks like you have your answer.

We want to upgrade, you don't feel comfortable doing so because you think it might be less stable/dependable. Thanks for the input, we can go our separate ways now

 

I can't wait till someone finds a way to create extra "search for" items. I would love to be able to define new items for, lets say all items with a certain color label.

Would be even nicer to be able to change the existing ones to not display system files. I just want to see what documents I have worked on today, this week, this month etc.

 

In using Leopard up to 9A 527, I have to say the only thing that crashed on me was Safari. I migrated over from my Tiger install, which I believe was suggested not to. When Leopard is released I'll grab an extra hard drive just for it.
Leave Tiger intact, then slowly reinstall everything from scratch.
I feel that'll be the majority of the instabilities is through migrating everyone's crap over. Aside from the eye candy, it's so far been much faster then Tiger, ways of finding things are neat. The networking is greatly improved, faster connecting to other systems. Doesn't seem like everything has moved around like in Vista. I found I was slower as things got moved around. Some things were right in front of you but were blindly there.
I use my system for a DAW and it's been solid doing that.
Work flow in Logic Studio has changed in it's new revision, but really in that App, the OS isn't what I need.
It'll be fun any who.
Later