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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35 Comments
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February 11th, 2008
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February 12th, 2008
at 11:19pm
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cPanel®
February 11th, 2008
at 6:44am
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
jamie365
February 11th, 2008
at 1:09pm
im just upgrading to leopard going to be great.
Shawn
February 11th, 2008
at 2:46pm
When buying a Mac do you recommend the Apple Care Protection Plan?
gene surber
February 11th, 2008
at 6:03pm
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.
niceveritt
February 15th, 2008
at 8:22am
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 crap. Apple spend billions on design and innovation, there is where the price mark up comes from.
niceveritt
February 15th, 2008
at 8:23am
And so what about Maddox? In any of his articles he does not mention that mac is a crap computer, he talks about mac fanboys that can’t shut up about how good their macs are.
niceveritt
February 15th, 2008
at 8:27am
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.
lil0egy0kid
February 16th, 2008
at 10:28am
can u install mac on windows?
anduinarilan
February 16th, 2008
at 7:11pm
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…
anduinarilan
February 16th, 2008
at 7:34pm
@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
anduinarilan
February 16th, 2008
at 7:34pm
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.
anduinarilan
February 16th, 2008
at 7:35pm
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. “
David
February 17th, 2008
at 1:35pm
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.
PiotrTarasov
February 20th, 2008
at 11:22pm
“this is chris” from resident evil lol (:
LesPaul92993
February 21st, 2008
at 5:55am
no you cant
Shatonmedeek
February 21st, 2008
at 5:03pm
lespaul, i dual boot mac and windows everyday, on a NON APPLE notebook.
lil0egy0kid
February 22nd, 2008
at 12:33am
no im asking about if i can buy mac osx 10 lepord and insatll it on my windows xp computer
Mikel4321
February 24th, 2008
at 10:17am
Why did he keep butting in? Rudeo lol.
kyutomusu
February 27th, 2008
at 7:43pm
no, you cannot, you can download it illegally (as a torrent) but you must have INTEL processor
lil0egy0kid
February 28th, 2008
at 11:04am
ok ty vm
evilgreencowprod
February 29th, 2008
at 11:29am
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.
PvAiPsAiZoInAsN
March 2nd, 2008
at 7:34am
64 bit
hyp3rdrv
March 3rd, 2008
at 4:25pm
The first guy seemed to want to get off the phone pretty quick once Chris answered his question, haha.
DavinTerrizzi
March 10th, 2008
at 5:44am
“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.
ParkourReble
April 4th, 2008
at 4:30am
get a fucking life or stop eating my poop cuss i dont want you to eat my coca any more
faralith
April 19th, 2008
at 8:19pm
i like it. Leopard that is.
blakeb903
April 24th, 2008
at 9:43am
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:)
imsohood29
April 25th, 2008
at 7:39am
first off it’s illegal, second of all it doens’t ru smoother
niceveritt
May 15th, 2008
at 12:55am
Apple didn’t actually make Final Cut either IIRC
niceveritt
May 15th, 2008
at 12:58am
Rubbish, OS X does not install straight out of the box, you need to download a hacked version, and it runs like crap compared to on a mac.
boringlyawesum
May 25th, 2008
at 2:57am
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
kookat
December 17th, 2008
at 11:39am
should i get a macbook? or stay with windows xp??
Jeff Frye
September 13th, 2009
at 7:17am
I see a lot of comments about innovation. But lets not forget both Microsoft AND Apple stole the whole GUI operating system from Xerox. Yes thats right folks BOTH MICROSOFT AND APPLE STOLE THE GUI FROM XEROX. Apple just beat Microsoft to the punch with the Apple LISA and the LISA Operating system. I have owned an Apple LISA, yes they were cool when they came out but were not what I call innovative. I’d call it stolen, or should I say borrowed.
Oh, lets not forget that BeOS and Mac OS X are both decendents from NeXT’s NeXtStep. Well technicaly Mac OS X is based on OpenStep but basicly the same thing. That’s not what I call innovative. I’d call it stolen, or should I say borrowed.
If you want to argue about what operating system is better then I think you should try them all before you can say one is better than the other.
I am typing this post on an iBook G4 with MAC OSX. I also own a couple Sun Microsystem Workstations with SUN OS. Among my collection of computers is an iMac with UBUNTU Linux. A Quad Xeon with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. A Dual Pentium with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, a laptop with Windows XP Pro. A Dual Athlon with Windows Vista Ultimate. A Pentium III with Vista Home Premium. A Pentium 4 with XP Pro.
If you want me to tell you witch operating system is better I can’t because they all serve a purpose and have advantages. Windows has advantages over OSX, OSX has advantages over Windows. And Unix/Linux has advantages over Windows and OSX.
If you want to say that Apple has better hardware than a PC then I would say you never built your own PC or owned Sun Microsystem equipment.
Bottom line…
If you like MAC then use a MAC
If you like PC then use a PC
if you like Linux then use Linux
And one more note…
If PC hardware is so bad then why did both Apple and Sun Microsystems switch to the x86 platform?