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

Haha wtf, just had an email from Apple:

Dear Apple Store Customer,

Thank you for shopping at the Apple Store.

We are happy to advise you that your Leopard order is now in transit, however, we are experiencing a short delay. We now expect to deliver your order by 29/10/2007.

Your business is very important to us and we regret any inconvenience this may cause.

Kind regards,

The Apple Store
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I got it yesterday :rolleyes::p
 
I've used it now for about 24 hours now and I personally don't see much difference than tiger other than looks. There aren't many new features that I'll be using, other than Time Machine, which is probably the best new feature, and its awesome.

I wish they had of kept the little round corners at the top of the screen though. :p

Worth it = yes.
 
Has anyone else noticed a potential bug with ejecting mounted .dmg files.... in that if you have several mounted, sometimes they won't unmount (solution is to log off and back on, or wait a while until they seem to get "released").

Had this on both my iMac and Macbook.

Also (on both machines) MSN occasionally misbehaves and as I type just keeps replacing the previous character - never saw this under Tiger.
 
PeterNem said:
Has anyone else noticed a potential bug with ejecting mounted .dmg files.... in that if you have several mounted, sometimes they won't unmount (solution is to log off and back on, or wait a while until they seem to get "released").
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I had that yesterday, but haven't since.
 
Right, starting to really like it now.

iChat is superb, great video chat and backgrounds are immense! Same with photobooth, lovely update, actually being able to move the effects is great.

Spaces, at first i hated it, felt clunky and didn't really see a point in using it at first glance even though i was most intrigued by it at first. Now though, i love it. I have changed the dashboard button 3 on my mouse to spaces and its excellent. Putting all the same type of app in each space and then using expose to sort through the app page you want is awesome!

The dock is growing on me and everything looks smart, i still dont like the tool bar transparency.

Stack is cool, its nice to have everything right there on the desktop, one click away!

The dashboard is extremely snappy, on tiger my dashboard used to take a while to load everything up but now, Boom! Its there!

Loving the new sync options with .Mac, the dock items one is great!

Also, the new voice alex, is very good, had some fun with it!

Enough of me going on, Just take a read through this!

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

All excellent additions!

Josh
 
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Hmm, my copy hasnt arrived yet but from reading these and other comments I might hold off until 10.5.1 or even 10.5.2. Whether I can resist or not is another matter. I might dig out ye olde iBook as a test platform.
 
Well I popped to the regent street store for my copy this morning (and talked the girl who served me into a drink tomorrow :D )

Installing (upgrading) was frankly a pain, I got the blue screen that seems to be pretty common and had to do a archive and install in the end. Needed to dig out aperture serial number etc as well. To be honest it's not what I expect from apple and I suspect there will be lots of unhappy users, they can't fix it with a software update either, they need to change the DVD, so I think they've screwed up big time...

Now it;s done, well it's pretty quick (I think an upgrade to the 200GB 7200rpm drives that are out now might be coming up...) and the new features are nice. I quite like the new look myself. No obvious problems except imovie won't start, it crashes on loading every-time so it looks like i'll need to look out my ilife disk...

I would buy it again I reckon but it's a lot more hassle to install than I wanted...

EDIT: I'm also really ****** off with apple for (apparently) getting rid of time machine backups to airport extreme connected disks at the last moment. It would have made life so much easier, it's the difference between a backup everytime I'm using it at home and a backup when I'm using it at my desk and remember to plug in the hard drive. What absolute rubbish...
 
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Concorde Rules said:
Well as im running the trial at the moment anyway, and the trial comes with the MBP anyway, I shall try.

But its like 3 times the price!! :(
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I got it for £129, student discount. Worth every penny!

Be sure to check out the tutorials on the apple website as they are invaluable! Show you all the great things about aperture!

Josh

EDIT- To above, luckily i had my aperture serial wrote down and just installed the trial and put the serial in, Luckily it worked! That was the only thing i was worried about while installing leopard on my macbook pro!
 
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I'm really glad the DVD didnt arrive this weekend. I was going to do an upgrade install. Probably going to take the time to do a thorough backup now and do a clean install off the bat. :(

Probably for the best anyway. I was only upgrading through laziness.
 
theheyes said:
I'm really glad the DVD didnt arrive this weekend. I was going to do an upgrade install. Probably going to take the time to do a thorough backup now and do a clean install off the bat. :(

Probably for the best anyway. I was only upgrading through laziness.
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If you're going to do a backup, you may as well try the upgrade route. If it works, great, if it doesn't, you've got a backup :)
 
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