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

34 Responses (Add) | Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 12:44am

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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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34 Comments

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

Windows Vista Torrent

February 11th, 2008
at 10:51am

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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.

Music Instruments Review

February 12th, 2008
at 11:19pm

source:Is Mac OS X Leopard Better than Apples Tiger?, Media Blog ~ Chris Pirillo I tried several more searches on ‘anime music’ but after 10 minutes I got lazy, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Pop music’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.

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 ****. 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 **** 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.