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Rating:  387 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Color: 1-user
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: MB576Z/A
Model: MB576Z/A
UPC: 885909167876
EAN: 5050053026040
ASIN: B000FK88JK
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Great features but major stability issues when also using .Mac November 1, 2007
tall-latte (Sammamish, WA USA)
37 out of 62 found this review helpful
Frequent system freezes, crashes, and a huge hit to productivity all outweigh the many nice, new features.
I would give this 5 stars if it were reliable, but reliability trumps all else.
This is the least stable OS I have ever used (I haven't used Vista, but I have used every other version of Windows).
I have 3 Macs running OS X Leopard, so my issues are not unique to one computer.
If you must use Leopard, disable iDisk local sync, as this seems to be the culprit for many stability issues.
Highly recommend you wait for at least 10.5.1 or 10.5.2, as this feels like a late alpha/early beta version.
UPDATE: Now on 10.5.2 and much better now. The early problems seemed to focus on .Mac sync, which was highly buggy. I expect better reliability from Apple, as I have high expectations (which is why I use a Mac).
 Sophisticated and beautiful October 26, 2007
A. Tormon (Chicago, IL)
25 out of 32 found this review helpful
I've been running 10.5 for about 5 hours so far, and what can I say - it's great! Theres a lot of minor polishing that has gone into the UI (opaque title bar & menus, the new dock), as well as some major revisions (Time Machine, coverflow in the quick-preview in finder). Overall - an excellent upgrade! Install went smooth, and everything has worked as it should. Microsoft - eat your heart out.
Works great for me... October 27, 2007
D. Bezboruah (Los Angeles, CA United States)
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
First, an important message: When installing, make sure to SKIP the Disk Verification process...otherwise you will waste about 45 minutes for nothing.
I installed the Leopard upgrade on my first-generation Macbook Core Duo 1.83ghz with 2gb of RAM and a 60gb HD. The installation went smoothly, taking about 40-45 minutes to do so. When I started Leopard for the first time, all my files were intact as before and all my applications worked great as well. There were two items that did not work: an isync plug-in for my Sony Ericsson phone, but reinstalling the plug-in fixed that; and a widget for gas prices does not work, with no fix yet. I also had Windows XP installed via boot-camp; there were no changes made to that and it is also working fine. The manual says to insert the Leopard disc in Windows so that it will upgrade the drivers.
I tried out time machine; it took about an hour to back up about 38gb worth of files to a USB 2.0 external drive. Photobooth's new backgrounds are fun to play with, but they work well only if your background is a plain wall with no objects behind you. If there are objects, then they tend to distort the background; not very pretty, needless to say. Another feature that is greatly improved is the Wifi networks menu in the menu bar; now you can finally tell which networks are WPA/WEP secured thanks to a padlock icon. Also, the menus seem to be faster when clicked; there doesn't seem to be a lag anymore as was apparent with Tiger. Spaces is a very nice feature to organize the "clutter" of different programs open at one time. Make sure to learn the CTRL- shortcut keys to get the maximum benefit from Spaces.
Finally, the only serious bug I've noticed is that my Macbook seems to be running much warmer than with Tiger. The average CPU temperature with Tiger was about 120 degrees F with a fan speed of 1500 RPM. With Leopard, the average seems to be around 170 degrees F and a fan speed of 2400 RPM. The keyboard also feels noticeably warmer to the touch. I'm hoping Apple will release a fix for that.
Otherwise, Leopard is a great buy and is definitely worth the money. I highly recommend getting it if you love your Mac; Leopard will make you love it more.
EDIT: The 10.5.1 update has resolved the fan issue. The CPU is now running closer to 140 degrees F but the fan speed runs around 1500 RPM again when idle.
Frustrating installation November 8, 2007
Sahra Badou (Tokyo, Japan)
20 out of 31 found this review helpful
My brother bought me an Apple Computer a month ago with the hopes of having me migrate from my PC to an Apple computer. I got used to the Apple Tiger OS quickly and I really enjoyed the OS's interface and ease of use. Learning a new operating system was not difficult.
Though the MAC OS is supposed to be more stable than Windows, I had several crashes with iTunes, especially when trying to import some old CDs I had. Forcing the program to quit was easy though, but it still was a pain.
With Leopard, Apple promised to fix some bugs and introduce some stunning new features; that is, if you are able to install it in the first place.
Upon upgrading my Tiger OS to Leopard, I was greeted after the install and restart to the login screen. I did not use a password while using Tiger, so I was surprised that I was asked for one to login. I tried to press the enter key as I usually do, but this did not work this time. I even tried pressing the green arrow to continue, but that did not work either. The computer was insisting for me to type in a valid password in order to enter the system.
I spent half a day trying to figure out what to do, and my work was delayed. I tried reinstalling Leopard, but was greeted by the same login message after install and restart. It was really frustrating.
Using my PC, I signed in to the Apple support website at www.apple.com/support to get some help. Here's what I got at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306508
1. Start up from your Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Install DVD.
2. From the Utilities menu, choose Reset Password....
3. Reset the password for the affected account(s).
I tried the above, but it did not work for me.
At http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306840 was the following solution to remedy the problem:
1. Restart in Single User mode (hold Command-S during startup)
2. At the prompt, type: mount -uw /
3. Press Return
4. Type:
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
5. Press Return
6. Type:
dscl . -delete /Users/username AuthenticationAuthority
Note: Replace "username" with the affected user account's short name
7. Press Return
8. Type: passwd username
Note: Replace "username" with the affected user account's short name
9. Press Return
10. At the "New password:" prompt, type the user's password
Note: It is recommended that the original user's password be used to match the keychain password
11. Press Return
12. At the "Retype new password" prompt, type the same password
13. Press Return
14. Type: reboot
15. Press Return
The above solution did not work either.
I finally had to call Apple support. The lady at the other end of the line told me that this is a known problem in Leopard and that the only workable solution is to reinstall Leopard, but that on the installation screen to choose options, and then install using the archive system feature. This method basically saves all your files and settings to an archive that you can later retrieve after installing Leopard.
Caution: when using the install with archive feature, do not tick on transfer user settings option, since this will also transfer password information and you'd still be unable to log in after install.
After installing Leopard for the third time using the above method, I was able to login into the system, and everything from thereon worked flawlessly. I opened the previous system files, and transferred all my previous files such as my pictures, movies, music etc... I did not transfer any previous user settings as I didn't want to mess out the system again. I then looked for any update to Leopard, and found one update to resolve the issue of Login and Keychain that I faced on installation. This is a very important update and you need to download and install it!
For someone used to being told that Apple OS is more stable, better, and with much less bugs than the Windows Operating System, the above problems I faced came as an unwelcome surprise. As far as I can tell, from the very limited experience I have with Apple, that both Apple and Microsoft's OS are the same animal! Would we have picked less on Bill Gates if he was not as rich and famous?
I gave Leopard a one star rating for the problems I faced above, and not for its features. Leopard is a great OS with stunning features, but my first impression left me with a sour taste of what is to come.
 it is ok October 27, 2007
D. Erikalov (Bay Area)
19 out of 25 found this review helpful
I am not sure what is all the excitement about Leopard...
I love my MacBook Pro, but Tiger worked better for me. I have quite a stunning collection of desktop background pictures which are flipped every 1 min, it was never a problem on Tiger. On Leopard, every background cross-fade takes 60% of CPU, even freezing the UI momentarily, probably related to the [useless] menu transparency. My Mac is MBP with 2GB, the 2007 version of Core 2 Duo.
Then, Finder crashed on me once already. iTunes too froze once, which never happened before.
2 of my apps which I used every day (httpmail, Groupcal) no longer work.
There are also problems with some apps that post modal dialogs (the dialogs appear behind the app window, effectively making the app unusable).
Translucent menus don't work for me, I wish there was a way to disable it. I don't know how people can like this even bigger dock at the bottom, eating precious vertical screen space. I have my dock on the left, but it is now more transparent than it used to be on Tiger, and background creates a lot of visual noise. I understand new features (and even breaking backward compatibility) when they make sense going forward. But these menu gimmicks don't buy anything, and just about all users complained about them, so why Apple keeps them??
Gee, the screen snapshots with green grass and glass dock sure look pretty, but put a few windows on the screen, and the dock will start getting into your eyes. I think Apple over-designed this one. IMHO Apple users love Macs for good (ergonomic) design, good performance, and clean (Unix-based) OS, not for screen gimmicks. If translucency is a selling vehicle, why not make it optional to please the hard core users.
I am so disheartened, I think I am going back to Tiger. Silly me, I didn't do a backup...
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