Comments on: Leopard: The Wow Really Starts Now

By: Freddie

Freddie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:22 +0000

Bought Leopard and had Apple deliver it to me the day it was released. I installed it, and within 3 hours had TIGER back on my MacBook Pro. Leopard is just way too annoying for me, and I see no reason to search all over the net to find fixes for the somewhat stupid things that Apple did to the OS in this release. I also did a little experiment. I wiped the hard drive, and installed WinXP Pro. The new Intel-Macs are PC CLONES. WinXP ran fine, and it ran well enough to be considered as a full time replacement to OS X. So rather than buy a new notebook from Apple again, any PC Notebook with simular specs will do. May not be able to run OS X on it (Thank You Steve ) but I won’t over pay for hardware again… I’m a little cranky too.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:01:16 +0000

Dashboard, Dashcode and Dictionary are the only things that Vista doesn’t have and they (side from the Dictionary which I believe there are website for) sound truly pointless. Yet another shiny dog turd of a OS from Apple. 3 months ago I was forced to use a 2.2Ghz MacBookPro at work, even with 4Gb of RAM it can’t load Safari and allow me to start surfing faster than IE7 on my 3+ year only ex-finance desktop PC with 2Gb RAM that I forced Vista onto. Want GPS support for your Mac? Good luck, no such thing. Mac users don’t move about it seems. Basic art program for drawing notes on screenshots like Paint has been doing to 10+ years!! Nope. Man, I hate this Mac. What I hate more, is the fact that for a while they suckered me into believing they’d stopped making computers for Art Students, WRONG!

Oh yeah and while I’m pissed, “No blue screen of death” well, yeah. Well done Apple no blue screen of death. Dirty gray one I see all the time, along with my marble of doom… ;p

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:47:41 +0000

Actually correct me if I”m wrong but it’s about 4 days from now as of this writing.

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:45:55 +0000

I’m sure (in fact about 99% sure) that Apple Legal has their torpedoes loaded for the next 5 days until Leopard’s released. Afterwards they’ll raise shields and THEN prepare for combat.

I know this probably has no real bearing on reality, but I had to include the Star Trek analogy.

Tom Anderson

By: Paul K

Paul K — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:37:19 +0000

How long can Apple keep going with it’s OS, until someone takes them to court on anti-trust issues? I mean if Microsoft did add all of this to Vista – it would never be able to be sold! While Apple are doing a great job with OS X and Leopard and certainly taking it to Microsoft, I wonder how long it can continue. How long before they have the a$#es sued by someone for taking patent ideas, software ideas, etc. Remember Konfabulator? It seems to me that all of the software that people write for the Mac eventually get’s added by Apple to the OS. If Microsoft did this, then they would be sued and in court with antitrust. Look at the issue they had with putting PDF support in Office – now it’s a download that most people don’t even realise exists. Look at the search options in Vista – going to be changed too keep Google happy. But somehow, it’s alright for Leopard to have Spotlight and PDF support. How is that fair?
Good luck to Apple – I think they are doing a wonderful job. How long before someone sues them though? Maybe if no-one would stop Microsoft, then Vista would be this OS – oh, how I dream about that!

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:40:26 +0000

Excellent list. Thanks, Chris. Placed my preorder for Leopard — the Ultimate edition, of course. ;)

By: FiddleFeller

FiddleFeller — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:06:12 +0000

1. Tell me you are giving up all of your Windows apps and files and history when you are finished.

2. Tell me how much time and effort it took to make this complete conversion.

3. Then, after you are fully functional again, tell me how glad you are you finished making the change.

Hearing that you are excited and are leaping to make the change is not empirical evidence that the change is good. I want to know about your results after-the-fact, not your enthusiasm going in.

Finally, it sounds like Mac is doing what Apple folks complained about Windows all the time: making the OS more visible and in your face than the applications your are trying to run.

By: Ron 'Hollywood' Parro

Ron 'Hollywood' Parro — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:05:54 +0000

It’s about time you came away from the dark side and into the light.

By: Washii

Washii — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:12:30 +0000

“You may be able to gain disk space without losing data. If a volume is running out of space, simply delete the volume that comes after it on the disk and move the volume’s end point into the freed space.”

Um..wow. ‘Simply’ -delete- your volume without losing data? This sounds like something I could do in Windows 2000! I’d call it temporary backup until I could expand the volume. Whoopee.

By: Washii

Washii — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:08:23 +0000

Security? You mean the OS tags your downloads? Yay!..not like XP SP2 has a feature exactly like that! No, not at all.

By: Ed Gelb

Ed Gelb — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:17:19 +0000

Chris, I am pleased that you are moving to the Mac.

I have learned much from you about Windows and now that I am also a switcher I am looking forward to learning much from you about the Mac operating system and software for it.

By: Frank ReCouper

Frank ReCouper — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:04:27 +0000

I only wished that pc users might have some of the same Leopard features

By: cyberdoyle

cyberdoyle — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:55:38 +0000

after being a windows groupie for many years I have finally swapped to a mac, I am on Tiger and it is the best thing I have ever done. I run vmware fusion and xp pro for the odd application I still need in windows (access and publisher for helping people who use that software) everything else on the mac is compatible. I don’t miss windows one little bit…

By: Leopard sucks, XP is old and Vista rocks | WinExtra

Leopard sucks, XP is old and Vista rocks | WinExtra — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:09:56 +0000

[...] is bringing to the table. I can almost feel the same excitement that many of the Mac users I know through blogs are feeling and I realize that it is an excitement that as a Windows’ user I found sorely [...]

By: Steve H

Steve H — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:26:00 +0000

My MacBook Pro has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2gig RAM. I am running MacOS 10.4.10 AND Windows Vista Business via Parallels Desktop. I call that “BobW” (Best of both Worlds). Using Parallels enables me to run Vista and MacOS X at the same time, copy/paste or copy files between them, etc.

I will immediately upgrade to Leopard for $129 or whatever it costs because, as the old adage says, time is money. I am a consultant and I don’t have room for debugging, virus removal, registries or generally having to think like a Microsoft support engineer.

While everyone else argues over “which is better” and “how much the hardware costs,” and “gee I can get a Gateway for $650,” I’m getting my work done on my Mac.

Then, there are the simple yet superior applications. For another $79, I bought iLife 2008, which includes the best wysiwyg Web editor I have yet seen (iWeb), plus excellent sound editing (GarageBand), non-linear video editing (iMovie), photo browsing (iPhoto) and music player (iTunes) tools – all for $79. The PC equivalents of only one of them is anywhere near as good as the Mac offering, and that is Apple’s iTunes for the PC.

Human factors and usability are Apple’s advantage. You pay more for the well-integrated hardware/software environment and Apple’s software is truly a bargain. A good Web editor alone, for the PC, is way more than $79. In fact, after >12 years hand-coding my Web site in html, I now trust that task to iWeb and the results are not consumer-ish at all: professional all the way.