Mac OS X Leopard Bugs
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Jeff Hatz asks a good question:
I know that you have likely signed a non-disclosure agreement with Apple, so you may not be able to answer my question. Given how Microsoft has dropped the ball with both Windows XP and Vista by releasing them for sale before they were done, do you feel that Mac OS X Leopard is/will be ready for prime time by the time it is released?
According to appleinsider.com, sources tell them that the last full build (Sep. 21, 9A559) only contained 1 bug, which was patched shortly later. So when it comes to Leopard, can we trust the statement that there are no known bugs, or are there some that Apple does not plan on fixing before going mainstream but will fix after the release?
First, nobody at Apple has ever reached out to me (I think that’s just the nature of the beast). Second, no operating system is without its share of bugs. Third, any showstoppers have likely already disappeared (in stark contrast to the various showstoppers that obviously still exist in Windows Vista as well as Vista’s first service pack beta).
Fourth, both Apple and Microsoft have a track record of breaking app functionality between OS revisions. Apple generally sacrifices backwards compatibility for overall improvements - whereas Microsoft places shims and hacks throughout Windows to ensure backwards compatibiity at countless costs. Make no mistake: Apple is not Microsoft, for better or for worse.
If your favorite developers aren’t already on the ball, you may just find yourself sticking with Tiger for the time being.
9 Comments
Andrew Sheridan
October 11th, 2007
at 2:51am
Chris,
Whilst not revealing anything under NDA, I can say that I have been running 10.5 these past few months and find it remarkably compatible with all the OSX apps I use (including Parallels). So much so that I have been able to use my 10.5 based MacBook Pro in a business environment. The glitches which have caused me issue are fundamental to 10.5 (such as power management or finder hangs, etc.
randy moore
October 28th, 2007
at 5:47am
Leopard was installed on my dual processor G5 about 12 hours ago. All print drivers are gone. All ICC profiles are gone. Photoshop CS3 and InDesign CS crash when working between them. Mail has no “notes” and no “stationary.”
Randy Moore
Dallas, Texas
Clipotech
October 31st, 2007
at 12:56pm
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Wes
November 6th, 2007
at 5:00pm
So I take it that you don’t consider this data-loss bug a show-stopper.
billeger
November 12th, 2007
at 3:27pm
I have a small trade shop for large-scale, high-resolution printing and photography. Epson 9800, CS3, MacBook Pro, etc.
Leopard was mostly okay but Adobe SHOULD have had its Acrobat Professional tweaked for it. Didn’t. Worse was Apple tech support people saying pdf files created within Photoshop worked as it was different than the Acrobat8. Not true. Wasted another few days because of THAT bad advice. What works — after almost two weeks — is a tif file printed with Adobe Illustrator using the Epson printer driver, not the Epson-supplied ColorBurst RIP which is a pain in the ass anyway.
.tif files print MUCH better in Illustrator than any pds or pdf file before.
Most curious bug? double printing on title bars. VERY slow loading. Dangerous when both Photoshop and Illustrator are loaded at same time though there is lots of RAM.
VERY disappointed that Apple didn’t reach out to a major part of their base, the huge graphics usage with Adobe. It is said it will be December before Acrobat8 patch is ready.
Ron Weinstein
November 20th, 2007
at 7:38pm
IO loaded Leopard onto my IMAC (see below) and lost my printer driver. Error message says missing USB Class Driver. Download patch from Lexmark, but cannot get it to communicate. Help please!
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version: 1.8f2
Dick Walters
December 3rd, 2007
at 7:19am
PDF files created in Leopard are huge compared with Tiger. I have a large Doc file which created a 1.5 mB PDF from Word or Pages Print PDF in Tiger. It creates a 400+ mB PDF from Word under Leopard! 125+ mB from Pages. Meanwhile, creating the fine directly from Acrobat Pro creates a 1.5mB PDF.
fssalaska
January 13th, 2008
at 11:37am
Im trying to run leopard, ” BUG’s ” and all but it’s hard when the OS has
more small bug’s than a 2 dollar hooker .
But at least I’m off Microsoft’s tit now , after year’s as a gamer and buying new hardware every 3 to 6 months I got me a Play station
that was the only reason to have a Microsoft OS , Mac is nice and
I fine it far easier to use than Linux no more cd dir , shconfig , gmake.
Mac’s Leopard is Awesome …
Vic
January 28th, 2008
at 8:57pm
Don’t talk to me about Leopard. Everyone should know that Leopard disables the printer driver for the Canon MF6550. Neither Canon nor Apple has constructed a new driver for this printer (and I’m informed many others) and my printer has been disabled for months. It stinks.
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February 19th, 2008
at 2:36pm
of breaking app functionality between OS revisions. Apple generally sacrifices backwards compatibility for overall improvements - whereas Microsoft places shims and hacks throughout Windows to ensure backwards compatibiity at countless costs. . . .linkAnother weird issue is when I have Windows XP running with Bootcamp, blue pixels will inhabit my screen around the bottom left corner at certain times, and remain there until I refresh the screen somehow. Apple