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

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Use this thread to post your first impressions, questions and reviews you have made about Leopard. Also feel free to post screenshots etc, that may help people out with any issues they are having with Leopard.

Try to keep all Leopard related questions in this thread, then we can make a Leopard FAQ to add to the sticky.
 
Hopefully we'll get Leopard closer to the 26th than we think. (those who ordered off the net) They always say a later date than when you actually get it. My macbook pro was 3 weeks early. :p

Josh
 
I really wanna know what the fuss is personally. It seems to me that Apple are charging for a very small update, its more like a service pack. I'm gonna have to get it if it kills my BootCamp otherwise but that will be my only reason.

New desktop? I really don't see how they can wing this as a new feature, great you added a reflection to the dock, congratulations. Stacks are a nice idea, but its already implemented by simply RIGHT CLICKING on dock items, admittedly not in a 'fan' but its certainly a nicely organized list right there on the dock.

Coverflow and the preview thing have both been done by windows a long time ago, and you just know big pdf's are gonna destroy it.

What else? Oh time machine, not a bad plan that one, but i don't personally think it should be considered a big part of a 'new' os, maybe a downloadable update.

The point I'm trying to get across is, why should i get this? Its £60 quid for all i can see, is a load of very, very simple, small updates which should be free.

The only thing I've read and liked is the mouse button usage for expose, which is something osx should have anyway.
 
Mouse button usage for expose? You can do that in Tiger unless I'm missing something :)

The main advantage with Leopard for me is how much 'faster' it is on 64bit Core2 processors. It's significantly smoother and more responsive than Tiger on the same machine, especially if you have VMWare/Parallels in the background. On my Core Duo machines the improvement is not particularly noticeable though.
 
What is it with this section of the forums and having "Official" in every other thread title - what's is more official about this thread than the other Leopard thread 10 threads down?
 
Chris1712 said:
I really wanna know what the fuss is personally. It seems to me that Apple are charging for a very small update, its more like a service pack...

Coverflow and the preview thing have both been done by windows a long time ago, and you just know big pdf's are gonna destroy it.
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I know where you're coming from... I had a good think through and those points did come into my head but I still bought it - for Bootcamp, for "New-ness", for Time-Machine, for it's much (IMO) improved Finder and whatever small things that may make me go "woo... this makes sense".

For under £60 (Student price) and the applications and work done for Leopard, IMO, is worthy of me clicking the pre-order button.

And AFAIK, since when did window make "Coverflow"/Preview type that runs natively? You don't mean the picture preview?
Have a watch at this and it *might* let you better understand what Leopard can provide, on top of what it has built on Tiger. :)

EVH said:
I agree (looks at Justin) ;)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17744613
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He wants some attention... :P
Plus, the other Official Thread is about Leopard Release, this is about Apple Impression, which I so so so so hope to give by Friday night :D
 
Meh, I thought the other was about news related to Leopard etc, so thought making a new one for people to post their first impressions an problems they're having would have been a good idea.

A passing mod can close this thread :)
 
Chris1712 said:
The point I'm trying to get across is, why should i get this? Its £60 quid for all i can see, is a load of very, very simple, small updates which should be free.
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Apple make the point that they release a new version of OS X every 1 to 2 years and although they are not stagering additions each release they introduce new useful features. For me I am prepared to pay the £60 for what Leopard offers. Spaces is one feature I am looking forward to as I already use Virtue Desktops which is good but not built into the OS.

If you look at the the XP to Vista time difference its huge compared to the OS X releases. Was Vista a huge step up from XP? I guess it was but its not got much over OS X if anything. OS X you get all the features in one price, Vista has like 1000 different versions with varying features.

For me, Leopard is reasonably priced and is going to look ace on my MacBook :)
 
Founder_film said:
Vista has like 1000 different versions with varying features.
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That's a ridiculous criticism of Windows - it's actually more like 3 editions (Home Premium, Buisness & Ultimate) that anyone here is likely to seriously consider buying, and the most expensive is only a little bit more expensive than Leopard, which is a much smaller upgrade over Tiger than Vista was over XP.
 
HAHA, I WILL have my own OFFICIAL thread one day!

Still going to be there at 6pm Friday :D...

Will shake off the cobwebs from the Brabus!
 
Hopefully the super-duper-gigantomous delivery gets it here on the 25th :D

I'm willing to be they're coming from Ireland (for the UK), so it should be here on or before launch.

I was teasing Justin.. thread was a good idea, I hope to contribute my opinion soon enough!

BOOM!
 
EVH said:
Hopefully the super-duper-gigantomous delivery gets it here on the 25th :D

I'm willing to be they're coming from Ireland (for the UK), so it should be here on or before launch.
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I would hope that but thus far (with iPods anyway) Retail Stores have them before mail deliveries... more optimistically, I hope I'll get it delivered on Saturday (unless they don't do that? *cries*)
 
I'm a little confused with the bootcamp situation tbh. It states that the boot camp assistnat will fail to work, which is the fancy app you use to actually install windows. If you are already running windows will it continue to work, or will i have to upgrade to leopard and start over again?
 
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