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Works great
Love Spaces
Coverflow is great, though a bit slow at times
Time Machine not working until I get a bigger Hard Drive
Like the clips from Safari being used in Dashboard
No issues setting up
i upgraded to Leopard from 10.4.10 on my G5 tower and it made a new admin account and locked me out completely.
My external raid drives were not recognized which meant i could not retrieve my backups.
Leopard crashed and froze numerous times so now iv reverted back to tiger.
But it did work ok on my MBP.
I installed on same machine and all runs without problem.
The only difference: speed and, if possible, faster than ever!
Try to check your account position: it should work!
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Spaces is a massive regression over putting folders in the Dock on Tiger. There is no way now to browse directories via a hierarchical menu as there was before. With spaces you are forced to go to the Finder just to access a directory one level deep.
If you agree with my comment then please submit to http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback
I disagree. Maybe you don't understand Spaces: The value is organization and reducing desktop clutter.
So exactly how does spaces make this any easier than was previously available in Tiger?
In my view it makes it more difficult since you can no longer have hierarchies of folders accessible via the Dock.
I think you're confusing Space and Stacks. Spaces creates "virtual desktops" to reduce screen clutter. Stacks is for folders in the dock, and I agree that if you can' browse more than one level deep with them it's a step backward in a way, though the fact that they don't vanish the instant you mouse away and that you get live previews of their contents is better than the old dock folders. Maybe if enough people sumbit feedback Apple will make it possible to browse deeper, seeing as I can't see any technical reason why it wouldn't work.
Sorry, yes you are right. Spaces is great. Its stacks that I don't like.
i love stacks but in one of the earlier betas you could go into the folders within the stack instead of it opening a finder window. I agree that it's usefulness is somewhat limited by this. It's great for keeping downloads clutter off the desktop though. I also like using it to get to apps instead of having them all in the dock.
In some ways it works better than before. The popup menu did not really work well as a launcher, while the grid view works right.
The fan seems to be eye candy at first, but click - and it stays, and it's shape is in a way that your thumb has easy access to the items on a touch screen ??!!?!??!?!!??!!???
Keeps me thinking....
I agree. I hate stacks. They should have kept the old right mouse button way as an option. No reason to remove something useful and replace it with something flashy and USELESS.
Fans are useless. They can only show a handful of items. I had assumed that it would scroll, sort of like coverflow. But no. Only other option if you have more than a few it to open finder.
Grid view is bad too. Both grid and fan show up semi-transparent. If you have items on your desktop, it gets hard to pick out what is what.
Dude you are talking about stacks, not spaces. If you are going to whine about your problems, at least be able to identify them. How are we supposed to give your comment any credit if you cannot be bothered to find out the name of what you are talking about. Did someone hit you with the idiotstick?
It's called Stacks, you dummy, not spaces, STACKS!!! Spaces is multiple desktops, Stacks are folders in the dock. And by the way, they are nice IF you know how to use them.
I didn't like the right click idea. Stacks makes it easy to access files. All they need is a patch to allow you to access folders within the stacks. But other than that, totally satisfied.
leopard is much faster on my macbookpro cd2 2.33 especially finder although i have just maxed the ram to 3gb, however safari is unstable
agreed.
Looking good on this 1GHz 2003 vintage PowerBook. FAST and feature packed. You definitely want lots of RAM (1.5GB here), and then prepare to be impressed. No second thoughts for Tiger for me!
Input managers work by the way. The only thing I'm waiting for is an update to iScroll 2 to get trackpad scrolling back on this unsupported machine.
Installing Leopard made me long for the relative ease of a Windows upgrade. Not since the abortion W98 have I experienced such a fusterclucked setup procedure.
I guess Apple devteam just ignored beta testers who pointed to flaws or else the beta testers did not do their jobs. Either way, this is a travesty. Slow, buggy, cumbersome -- Gates would be proud.
Leopard is a dog afaiac. Back to Tiger for me until 10.5.1.
You are retarded, plain and simple. I don't even need to explain why.
Runs fine on my eMac 1ghz, 1g ram. Even video iChat works in theater mode (using external video camera)
Quicklook is great for viewing my thousands of photos and sheet music PDF's.
Can't get Quicklook to work with Coverflow view icons. I have to click on the file in the loewr list view to Quicklook.
Time Machine was a bummer. Need an extra drive with free space as big or bigger than your files(unless you exclude files in your preferences)
Won't work with our company VPN also.
Otherwise, it's nice, Interactive help, mail, safari web page widgets all work as advertised.
Ichat screen sharing and .mac file and screen sharing are amazing. Finally a built-in program that acts like Timbuktu from about 10 years ago!!!
RW
I have to assess the OS from a functional stand-point. The intentions were are good, yet for the most part I think this version of OS X just underscores Apples focus- make those who are not keeping up with the Jones' feel inferior. I have been a dedicated apple man for over 5 years. Though this may not seem like a lengthy time of dedication to some of you, it does qualify as such to me. I bought my first iMac and feel in LOVE with everything about it. From the packaging to the little nuances of the OS, I LOVED it. I believe that Apple started venturing down this path of pleasing the masses (windows folks) when the new Intel chip was introduced.
Don't look now but the beautiful fruit we once saw as shiny and unique is starting to reveal a rotten inner filling. My observation is, Apple seems to slowly move into the broader light. To do so they must appeal to the masses. So, this means going for the money before you go with your creative instinct. Let me put this into a perspective which you can relate to today. This operating system was initially due to release in the Spring '07 but was delayed 6 to 7 months. Why did they push it back? Apple says they had to reassign their developers to the iPhone. The iPhone, a product which was not slated for launch before the OS. Apple saw more profit in pushing the iPhone b/c the market was larger. It was a innovative item which hadn't been seen nor introduced to the market. So I ask- what was the BIG hurry? How about appeasing the loyalist, those who have been on this train ride the longest? To Apple's credit I understand that introducing the iPhone opens the Apple door for those who have no exposure, which in turn brings them into the store. As we all know in the store is where the magic happens. People start to star gaze and next thing you know you have purchased one of those COOL systems you see on the commercials. Anyhow, back to Leopard- I think the translucent bar below is a cool new look but the glowing blue circle signifying an app is running is horrible. The smaller triangle was sufficient. The glowing blue ball is hard to see as it blends in with the bar for the most part. Dashboard, some widgets do not work with Leopard. Case and point the 'Gasoline' widgets which helps find the cheapest gas in your area. The biggest disappointment is Time Machine (TM). TM serves as the staple of what this release is all about and it is quite simply the most disappointing. I purchased a 500 GB external and connected it to my AirPort Extreme router only to find that TM can only be used with a hard drive directly plugged into the computer. So does this mean, all of those laptop users have to lug around an external so that they can get the functionality of TM? Again, I am looking at all of this from a functional stand-point. Let's be honest people, at the end of the day an OS is praised when it fulfills our fundamental needs... Functional. There are more annoyances but I will not stand on this soap box long.
Bottom line, I would have purchased the OS regardless b/c I not only support Mac but I own stock which in the larger scope I am paying myself back. But, I would give this upgrade my endorsement. I am personally responsible for having 100+ switchers. I convinced these people to switch b/c I truly believed in Apple products and the honest rock-solid culture they have built. As I say that, I begin the question if this will always be the case. In business, when you begin to question anything you know that doubt leads to non-confidence. I hope this is not the case because I LOVE me some Apple!
Overall, I am very pleased with Leopard.
On my MacPro, the installation was flawless, and the machine works perfectly.
My MacBook Pro, on the other hand, has some kind of bug in it where the Finder will randomly just go out of control. The system doesn't become sluggish or anything, but the Finder thread will run up to 100-110% of the CPU cycles, and drive the heat levels and fan noise through the roof.
The common suggestion is that this is caused by the Spotlight indexing the drives, but the Spotlight icon is not flashing, and this machine has been on non-stop with Leopard over 48 hours now.
*****Warning fanboy whining ahead******
It is as if 9to5mac is looking for negative comments by stating an example of one feature that 9to5mac has already pointed out does not work when connecting networked drives. 9to5mac is still bitter about all of the iPhone drama over the past few months, and may not be approaching the Leopard release with a fresh and open perspective.
HAHHA
hilarious warning - good way to deal with these blowhards. seriously idiot, why don't you just hang out in http://www.apple.com/hotnews if you want only rosy glow.
upgrade mb & mbp went fine.
overall serious speed increase of the finder.
spaces and quickview real + points.
however, lack of compatibility of time machine with airdisk make it totally useless for laptop users. grrrr...
Thats why you just connect the external to the laptop once a day and it backs everything up or you carry a pocket hard drive with you they make them up to 250gb now? so whats the problem. Everyone always insists on complaining about something new no matter what it improved. Personally I'm happy with os x and id rather have a new version of os x that has a few bugs that need to be fixed then to be running windows vista which is causing aids in africa kthx?
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After having serious graphics glitches with my ATI X1900 video card, I reverted back to Tiger. Seems there a several others in the same boat. Check out our thread at Apple:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195969&start=0&tstart=0
This is the first update from Apple that has actually made me want to tell people to stay away from the upgrade, and I'm a "fanboy."
There should be another selection on the quiz labeled "Going back to Tiger."
I'd be checking that one.
I freaking hate Stacks, Time Machine is rather useless (to me), I haven't got into Spaces really but the shifting around feels like Id always lose something, the Dock is crap, and the other 300 features aren't really more than some sped boosts and eye candy.
Now where is that Tiger install disk?
Useless to you but useful for everyone else.
If memory serves me correctly, Apple demonstrated how easy it was to cut & paste or drag & drop an item from one program into another while in Spaces. Ex: dragging a photo from iPhoto into Pages. I can do that now in Tiger but both programs aren't dynamic(active). The Creative folks at the Apple store were unable to do this is as well. One mentioned that perhaps it required to first dragging the item to the dock and then moving it into the program...We also checked this feature out in the new Leopard book by Robbin Williams at the Apple Store and the book also shows that this feature is available but doesn't say how to do it!
Having a way to simply organize my desktop into boxes is OK but not compelling nor what Apple initially boasted.