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Is Mac OS X Leopard Better than Apple’s Tiger?

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I had someone call in tonight on the 888-PIRILLO line to ask me whether Leopard is so much better than Tiger that it is worth paying for the upgrade. He asked “is it extremely better… is it worth $120.00?”.

Is it worth the money? YES. Is it “extremely better”? I wouldn’t say that. However, the incremental improvements definitely make it worth the cost. There have been a few issues that have been raised with certain applications on Leopard.

He also asked me if the new features on Leopard are “cool”. Yes, they are. It was worth it for me to upgrade, for sure. My system is actually faster with Leopard than it was with Tiger. That was shocking and unbelievable. With Windows… I always dreaded upgrading an OS… knowing it would likely make my system slower. To have an OS that is actually faster with each new OS is refreshing.

The best feature in my mind is Time Machine. Time Machine uses a unique interface that turns the rather boring task of backing up and restoring files into something that you may actually enjoy doing. And you may not even have to think too much about the “backing up” portion of the exercise—according to Apple, Leopard will automatically back up your files as you work.

The next caller asked about the Sony PSP software. I happen to think it is pretty much crap. The caller wanted to argue, saying that the software for Vegas is great. I reminded him that Sony didn’t make Vegas… they acquired it. To me, it’s quite smart for companies to buy software and refine it for themselves, instead of creating something from scratch. Why reinvent the wheel?

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My system is actually faster with Leopard than it was with Tiger. That was shocking and unbelievable. With Windows… I always dreaded upgrading an OS… knowing it would likely make my system slower. To have an OS that is actually faster … clickherefor full story

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im just upgrading to leopard going to be great.

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i am sorry i ever purchased Leopard and upgraded to Tiger. This thing is utterly silly and offers no grand improvements over Tiger. In many ways, it is appallingly ugly compared to Tiger, not to mention all the haxies that it breaks. My biggest beaf was stacks, but that has been fixed withe the Leopard 10.5.2 updater, but the ugly finder sidebar remains and there is now no way to get rid of it as you could in Leopard. i can’t understand, for the life of me, why Apple screwed with that! i utterly hate Leopard.

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You think mac’s are overpriced? OS X Leopard = $129
Vista Ultimate = $400.
Not to mention Vista has 1/2 the features, and is a poor copy of OS X. And the fact that most OEM’s build poorly designed, poorly built, poorly thought out ****. Apple spend billions on design and innovation, there is where the price mark up comes from.

And so what about Maddox? In any of his articles he does not mention that mac is a **** computer, he talks about mac fanboys that can’t shut up about how good their macs are.

Just to prove my statement before my last one, name one innovation Microsoft has had in the past 5 years. Whereas I can name loads, Apple has had off my head. iPhone (say what you want about it, but it is a revolutionary phone, overpriced or not). Time Machine. Dashboard. Spotlight. ETC. Please check your facts so you can make an honest comparison.

can u install mac on windows?

Here’s the definition of Innovation:
1.the act of introducing something new: something newly introduced
2. the introduction of something new.
3. a new idea, method or device.
4.change that creates a new dimension of performance Peter Drucker (Hesselbein, 2002)
5.the process of making improvements by 6.introducing something new…

@niceveritt AKA the troll, here the list of Microsoft innovations in the last five years, you can Google the ones you never heard of.
XBOX 360 - HD Gaming
Windows CE - No Such Option For OSX…. Still Waiting…
Windows Mobile…. Same Thing Here…When did the Iphone come out …..Right….
Tablet PC Compatibility…No Such Option For OSX…. or any apple product…
Encarta - Predecessor to Wikipedia, without the User Interactivity
Microsoft Surface, just google it, its really cool

Microsoft Visio - No Other Product comes even close to this office tool
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) - Developers Developers Developers
Silverlight - Basically Google Searchable Flash and Native HD Video Streams . Anyone who designs Flash knows why this is important.

I once heard, “Saying this Apple was first out with many many things. But to say Microsoft just copied is mostly crazy. MS is allowed to be late but still be innovative, even though the public will just say, “Oh yeah seen it some where else,” and “good thing they finally added that.” This constance war is just wearing on those of us in the middle of it. Time to let it go and move on. You take your OS and I will take mine. “

My mac is slower with 10.5. A 1.6 mini with 2gigs of ram. And I got a wonder problem with the mail app not remembering my password that still isn’t fixed after 10.5.2. I am not impressed.

“this is chris” from resident evil lol (:

lespaul, i dual boot mac and windows everyday, on a NON APPLE notebook.

no im asking about if i can buy mac osx 10 lepord and insatll it on my windows xp computer

Why did he keep butting in? Rudeo lol.

no, you cannot, you can download it illegally (as a torrent) but you must have INTEL processor

hey tonight if you guys come by chris’s chatroom by the time he gets back, and we 1000 viewers he will give away a computer.

The first guy seemed to want to get off the phone pretty quick once Chris answered his question, haha.

“because fucktard steve jobs is too tight fisted to give out the source code for the hardware ”

WTF LOL
Last time I checked, people didn’t make hardware by typing.

get a ******* life or stop eating my poop cuss i dont want you to eat my coca any more

i like it. Leopard that is.

sure ….. any windows pc can run leopard. GO BUY IT NOW!!!!!! PC’s actually run leopard faster than a mac. Get back to me when you try it out:)

first off it’s illegal, second of all it doens’t ru smoother

Apple didn’t actually make Final Cut either IIRC

Rubbish, OS X does not install straight out of the box, you need to download a hacked version, and it runs like **** compared to on a mac.

wow another boy scout, did you make it to eagle? who cares if its illegal and my hackintosh runs just fine for the 500 if cost me to build it

should i get a macbook? or stay with windows xp??

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