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

Well Apple have seriously ballsed up SMB - I even changed my workgroup to match the one that my MacBook was a member of, but still I get nothing appearing in the Finder. I can reboot and it will work, then randomly drop out again, and then also decide not to be there if I reboot again. Useless.

Have to agree that it's not worth the money though.

Edit: What the hell has happened to Spotlight? It seems to not look in any system folders (eg, searching for "plist" gives me 14 results). Anyone found out how to change this?
 
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I think this is the best two lines I typed today:

Code: 
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock
 
Caged said:
Well seeing as I've done it and it looks the same as it does if you put it at the sides of the screen, one of us is wrong.
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Maybe it does both, who knows! :p

Just thought i read it on engadget, it may be slightly different though. Im probably wrong, i always am...

Josh

EDIT- This is the one on engadget;

The new dock is ugly. For a nicer, simpler, kinder dock, bring up terminal and punch in defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES, then killall Dock. (Use NO to bring back the ugly.)
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Well it makes the dock 2D again (so you can actually see if a program is running or not as opposed to guessing if that's a light blue blob or just your wallpaper) but it looks nothing like the one in Tiger.
 
Caged said:
Well it makes the dock 2D again (so you can actually see if a program is running or not as opposed to guessing if that's a light blue blob or just your wallpaper) but it looks nothing like the one in Tiger.
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Yeah, wasnt sure as i havnt done it, i said "like" the tiger one. :p

Josh
 
So far the issues i've encountered are:

(Running a CD MacBook with 2GB RAM)

It just kinda feels not as slick in the graphical animations side, for example the genie effect is definitely laggy when I tried with Safari just now. Same goes for the magnification on the dock.

I've just heard the dreaded audio "pop" thing that reared its head in Tiger, only to be fixed...seems it's back :o

Skype opens and closes with nothing happening, although i'm sure it ran fine on first install :confused:
 
Just installed on the MacBook Pro, Wow, this thing flies on intel!

Runs a whole lot better, smoother.

Hmmm, Sell PM G5 for a Mac Pro, hmmmmm!

Josh
 
Right well, here is a more lengthly review from me now i've used it.

it feels a lot more sharper, and the the interface on the whole looks a lot less chubby than it used to and finder's new sidebar is much better.

However, for me the negatives FAR outweigh the positives and these wonderful "new" technologies are years too old for my liking.

The new dock is horrible and pointless, the reflection gimmick is useless and I wait with baited breath for someone to release an eqivalent to cleardock.

The clear menu bar at the top is also pointless, I thought apple were going for interface consistancy? so they make this translucent bar that is with most backgrounds different colour to the actual windows. They also removed the curved corners which again flies in the face of their interface.

"Spaces", well anyone who has used a linux system in the last 10 years will have used these
"Stacks", see above - kde and gnome have had drawers on the taskbar for years
"Time Machine", windows NT had a backup system
"Cover Flow", windows XP has a "filmstrip" view

Definately not worth £80 in my opinion :(
 
Didn't like the Dock, especially on my MacBook, takes too much space and I prefer Tiger style. I also use it on the side and I'm glad Apple made it 2D on the side, now it looks much neater and nicer :)

Hate said:
"Time Machine", windows NT had a backup system
"Cover Flow", windows XP has a "filmstrip" view
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I agree with most part apart from the above 2;
Time Machine (which I'm about to test) or similar is not on Windows, at least, not in terms of user-friendly and day by day update...

Coverflow IMO, is quite cool compared to the Filmstrip view off Windows XP. Feels faster, can quickly read PDF (natively), watch the clip preview of the film/youtube rip e.t.c. and almost like a slide show for my photo collections.

You are right, for the price, it isn't really worth it (yet). I'm hoping further updates and developers updates (for apps) will make it better...

This is my first time "upgrading" with Apple and unless 10.6 has teleportation or something equivalent, I'll wait/skip that one.
 
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