** The Official Mac OS X Leopard First Impressions and Review Thread **

I have found another feature of Leopard I don't understand. Take a text file (like an RTF file from TextEdit).

Put it on your desktop. View the desktop and you'll see a quite fussy icon just like you'd see in Tiger. Copy the file and put it in your Documents folder then open that in Finder, the icon for the file is completely different - the new style washed out document outline.

View the Desktop through Finder, and if you watch very carefully, the first time you open the folder you'll see the old style icon immediately replaced by the new style one. After that first folder open it stays as the new style.

???
 
The only thing that bugs me about leopard heavily is the drop out of keyboard and mousepad. That is a serious immediate issue.

Next is the kernel panics for Time Machine.
 
It could be. I'm on a macbook, Core2Duo 2ghz, 2gb Ram (Crucial). It's really random things which cause it though, most recently iTunes and Safari.

It seems like it might be related to clamshell mode (at home) as I haven't yet had one today, while in lectures. I'm using it 'normally'.
 
Hmm... I never ever tried clam shell mode - so cant help you there. Perhaps a test is needed; run it normally for 24 hours and do the same 24 hours in clam shell mode (after a reboot)

Try that nd come back in 48 hours time :p
 
Well I would do if I could make it through 24 hours without a kernal panic! I think it may be memory based, so have just downloaded memtest and plan to run that while I am out!
 
Why would it be heat related? All the heat vents out the back. Macbooks and MBP's are designed to run in both "Normal" and clamshell mode. Temps aren't any higher than normal, in clamshell.
 
JonB said:
Well I would do if I could make it through 24 hours without a kernal panic! I think it may be memory based, so have just downloaded memtest and plan to run that while I am out!
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^^

Tried using iStat Pro to show temps and fan speed?

Only one thing has annoyed me in leopard so far and thats either not resuming from sleep or slideshow mouse after sleep.

Tis weird.

I shutdown now tho..
 
Yeah, I've had it not resume from sleep a couple of times. I've assumed that it had kernal panic'd while in sleep.

After running memtest all night, my memory failed on every pass of the test. Any suggestions on the best way to prove if it is either the memory or the memory slot?

I'm just running memtest again, but then I was thinking trying each DIMM individually in each slot, then trying someone elses ram, both in double configuration and individual slot configurations. The problem I have is that I upgraded my ram myself, so before Apple will take a look at it, I need to be able to walk in, with a confidence and say what is specifically wrong with it for them to take me seriously. (I hate how all the 'geniuii' treat everyone as a techonophobe!)

EDIT: And I don't have my original ram anymore, which is annoying.
 
Try each DIMM individually first dude. You may have one dogey DIMM.

If it is crucial ram you'll be able to RMA it without visiting the Mac store.
 
Yeah, i'm hoping it is the ram to be honest. I'll do that this afternoon. I didn't think, but we had a powercut a couple of weeks ago, and my ipod was on charge via usb and all the music on it was lost. Maybe the same thing affected my ram? Anyway to the testing lab...
 
JonRohan said:
Try each DIMM individually first dude. You may have one dogey DIMM.

If it is crucial ram you'll be able to RMA it without visiting the Mac store.
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It's just one of the DIMMs that is screwed. Everything now seems peachy running on just the one. Have to get the other RMA'd!
 
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