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 I would not upgrade without research. December 8, 2007
Matthew M. Held (Pahrump, NV USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've never owned a PC. I feed the PC is a rope holding back technology. Not that Apple is any crowing glory of achievement - they're just better that PC's.
I am a loan officer and I own three Mac's - 2 Mac Mini's and 1 MacBook - both Intel. I spend at least 8-10 hours/day weekdays using my computer. The program I need to conduct my business is called Calyx Point, and there is no Mac equivalent. Before, I had to use my company computers for Point, but since Parallels, I operate Point strictly from my Mac. It's the only thing I need Parallels for.
When I bought OS X 10.5, from previous experience, I installed it first as a fresh install on my home Mac Mini, and reinstalled only iLife '08 and Parallels. Parallels kept crashing and giving me errors. I reinstalled the OS X 10.5 as a fresh install in reinstalled iLife '08 and Parallels to no avail. There is now a beta patch for Parallels that seems to fix the problems, but I will not install 10.5 on my two work computers until a hard patch for Parallels is available, and I test it out on my home Mac Mini.
If you only need the core programs for your Mac - Mail, iTunes, iCal, Safari, iLife - then upgrade away.
But if you need Parallels to function, I would not upgrade until the hard patch from Parallels exists.
As far as all the cool new things for 10.5 - I don't like the fact that Sherlock in gone. I rarely used it, but it was definitely handy when I needed it. And, how the heck can you specify page size in Safari before you print? I'm sure it's there, but it's not where it used to be, under Page Setup. I can't rate any features of 10.5, because I rarely use my home Mac. When I can finally upgrade, I may post my opinion.
Bells and whistles do not a better OS make December 8, 2007
Nathan E. Williams
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have run OS X in all its incarnations, on both PowerPC machines, and for 20 months on a Core Duo MacBook. Tiger was a dream. It never caused me a concern, was quick and reliable.
Leopard takes up an additional 4 gigabytes of space on my HD than did Tiger. It loads more slowly, much more slowly. Sometimes I think I'm running Windows again.
And speaking of Windows, my version of Parallels does not work well with Leopard, forcing me to make a decision to upgrade to 3.0, or go to Fusion (my likely choice).
Adobe still hasn't issued a version of PhotoShop Elements that will run natively on the Intel chip, and whereas PhotoShop Elements 2 ran well on Tiger under Rosetta, it will not run at all on Leopard--and I really miss it.
SuperDuper!, which I have used for back-up, and would prefer to continue using since you cannot boot from a TimeMachine back up, still hasn't issued a Leopard-compatible version. I'm sure it will come, but I miss it. It was quick and ultra-reliable.
I had to download a couple of drivers for printers I use.
The iPod-iPhone mods to Finder leave me cold, and stacks don't mean much to me, either.
I can still go back and restore Tiger with a SuperDuper! back up, and I think about doing that every day.
great .... but need enhancements November 6, 2007
R. Alazemi (NY, USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
this the 3rd OS i have upgraded since 10.2 jaguar.. the finder is completely new, file management also
new & its look eye candy, but this version will be stable after some updates like tiger , tiger now is more stabled
since 10.4.6 update ..... but in general its worth for Time Machine feature. I recommend buyers to wait after Apple release 10.5.1 update .
 Looks and runs great November 21, 2007
David B. Cassada (david room)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like the eye candy a lot in that it does look a lot nicer than tiger; however, Leopard would be nicer if apple would have utilized open source by utilizing Beryl, a linux 3d desktop project, within mac osx--would have to port it over from x windows over to OSX, but it would be a beautiful thing.
The operating system is organized well, I just wish it would boot as fast, if not faster, than tiger.
 Solid Upgrade November 24, 2007
Clint Smith (Northern California, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have installed family pack on three machines (new iMac, eMac, and 1.4gHz iBook) and all has been good. No show stopping issues so far. It took a little effort to get the eMac to print through a shared printer on an old iMac running 10.3, but all is good now. Overall, I enjoy the new features, and my wife says her iBook runs even faster than before the upgrade.
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