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

Just use Pacifist to install iLife off the restore DVDs, worked for me when I trashed half the apps and wanted them back.
 
Darryn said:
Just got around to installing this on my Macpro, im absolutely loving Spaces on my MBP pressing F8 was a chore, but on the Macpro as I use an Intel Explorer v3 and which has the 2 little buttons on the left, one for Expose and the other for Space... perfect...
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Its great aint it Dreeder?. I'm using the Wireless Mighty Mouse, used to have Dashboard as the little ball click but now have it as spaces. Wasn't impressed with spaces at first but i don't think i could use my mac as well without it now!

Josh
 
Something ive been thinking about spaces is that it kinda encourages multitasking in a big way... I normally only have 4 or 5 apps open at once...

Having 4 seperate desktops I think I may end up having many more apps open at once..
Currently ive got it layed out as;

DT1=Firefox + Thunderbird
DT2=PSCS3
DT3=Aperture
DT4=FTP and Finder and Parallels

Each desktop is made up of 2x 24" 1900x1200 screens, so im not short on desktop realestate... but, ive only got 4gb, when I start having Aperture and CS3, parallels and a few other bits and bobs I will start getting near using all my available Ram... Im thinking maybe I should get the 2x1gb Kingston Macpro sticks out of the members market for £50.
 
Furbs said:
Ok how exactly do i do it from the sidebar? presumed i would need to see the share tab and add something to it... but because it's not there i was a bit lost. Also will the connect to server option work as it is just a normal pc share I am trying to access not a server?
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Windows machine/share browsing is a bit broken in Leopard so your Windows machines may or may not appear in the sidebar :(

Apple + K should work though, just use smb://machinename/sharename to connect to.
 
Darryn said:
Each desktop is made up of 2x 24" 1900x1200 screens, so im not short on desktop realestate... but, ive only got 4gb, when I start having Aperture and CS3, parallels and a few other bits and bobs I will start getting near using all my available Ram... Im thinking maybe I should get the 2x1gb Kingston Macpro sticks out of the members market for £50.
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Get those sticks and get another 2x1gb, 8GB!!! :cool:

If anyone hasn't read it already here is a review from arstechnica! Long review but kinda worth it!

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/1

Josh
 
Darryn said:
Something ive been thinking about spaces is that it kinda encourages multitasking in a big way... I normally only have 4 or 5 apps open at once...

Having 4 seperate desktops I think I may end up having many more apps open at once..
Currently ive got it layed out as;

DT1=Firefox + Thunderbird
DT2=PSCS3
DT3=Aperture
DT4=FTP and Finder and Parallels

Each desktop is made up of 2x 24" 1900x1200 screens, so im not short on desktop realestate... but, ive only got 4gb, when I start having Aperture and CS3, parallels and a few other bits and bobs I will start getting near using all my available Ram... Im thinking maybe I should get the 2x1gb Kingston Macpro sticks out of the members market for £50.
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Just put aperture on the PowerMac Dual G5, this has also got 4GB of RAM. Maxed it out pretty quickly with aperture running :(

How much does everyone think a PowerMac Dual G5 is worth?, specs;

Dual 2Ghz PowerPc
4GB of RAM
Audiophile 192 Sound Card
9600 pro
2x160Gb Seagate Barracuda's in RAID 0

Also, what graphics card do you have Darryn? How does it handle Aperture?

Cheers.

Back on topic haha! :p

Josh
 
Josh, I'd think £500, easy. I've tried to sell my 1.6 a few times, bet never had offers anywhere near what I would have been happy with.

Anyway, I gave Leopard a once-over last night, but with the .Mac syncing issues I couldn't be bothered giving it more that a peripheral glance. I'm waiting for a new hard drive before switching everything over, so it's not going to be more than a muck-around install for the time being.
 
Had a quick look on ebay, around my spec seem to be up for grabs at £800! :eek:

If i get that for it ill be amazed! It was given to me as a gift at christmas, i want to sell it and go for a mac pro.

Josh
 
Beepcake said:
For those people that find the new blue dots on the dock a bit hard to see, there's instructions/files here to put it back to good old black triangles:

http://www.silvermac.com/2007/leopard-dock-with-black-triangle/
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I did this:

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Might get rid of the reflection bit, but I prefer a black dot. I also increased the darkness of the 'walkway'.
 
I just found a new feature i like...

It's nothing major like time machine, but i was running through the list of 300+ new 'features' on the apple site and found one that allows you to scroll an active window.

The amount of times ive been following a tutorial or something and have to keep switching windows because i cant quite see the scroll bar - well now I can just hover over it and scroll!! Granted it's not the best feature but certainly useful.

Also I like the new dock (when its on the side) it just looks neater.
 
Well after a day of using my MBP + Leopard all I can say is, if your tempted to buy one and have the money DO IT!!!!

Its totally brilliant!

Spaces: Pretty useful actually, I have: (1. Empty Desktop/Image Aquire- 2. Internet Apps (Safari/MSN/Mail/Etc) - 3. Lightroom - 4. Photoshop).

Configured apps to open in certain spaces, and it moves to that space when you open it! FANTASTIC!! Love it!!!

Quickview is very useful as well, I haven't got a library on here at the moment but over wireless to my PM G4 it was reasonably good! Much better on actual HD files.

Stacks, love aswell. I have cleaned my desktop and now have a Document, App and Download stack :D

AND its all VERY quick.

Totally love it, anyone wanting to upgrade... DO IT!!!! 100% 10/10 :D :D :D
 
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