 "Be careful to read ALL the prompts when you load..." | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1LWUR8WQHY5T0 |
| I lost EVERYTHING on my hard drive because I didn't pay attention to the window during install. One of the first windows that comes up asks how you want to install... One of the options is to erase your hard drive, and then install the new operating system. This is the option selected unless you click the others. Beware, and pay attention. |
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 "Worst Upgrade Yet" | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A12RCBR2QWKV93 |
| This is by far the worst upgrade yet. I bought the most recent 10.5.4 and installed it a few days ago on my G5. It installed fine, including the X-tools. After having almost 10 years of rock solid performance from OS9, Panther, and Tiger this has been nothing but a nightmare. My G5, now with Leopard, randomly and continually crashes with Safari, Mail, iPhoto,and as well as many other programs. Even the disk utility First Aid hangs the computer. In two days now it has crashed probably twenty times. The force quit will not terminate hung programs and the computer has to be restarted with the power button. I have Disk Warrior on order to try to fix things but right now I'm seriously considering deinstalling this crap and going back to the stable Tiger. Fortunately, I have a G4 with Tiger that runs, with the same software, without problems. After being an ardent Mac supporter for many years It is very disappointing to see Apple come out with software like this. |
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 "Quick and painless" | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: ASBS8EUIV8200 |
| I'd backed up the PowerBook completely, fully expecting the re installation of everything to be full of bumps and unpleasant surprises. The installation went so much easier than I'd expected that I came out of it feeling as though it had just done everything on it's own. All programs that I'd been using on the earlier operating system seem to be intact and still in working order. I didn't have to pull out old key codes or anything. This was a very pleasant surprise.br /br /On top of this some of the new functions are very nice to have. BootCamp works nicely, as it gives me more of the computer's capabilities to use in Windows XP. I'd previously been using Parallels, and was frustrated that a tiny amount of the computer's RAM was allowed by the program. The one concern I had about using BootCamp instead was the need to reboot the computer when switching to the other operating system. For my purposes this is a minor inconvenience. As it takes time to open Parallels first and then to start up Windows anyway, I'm not regretting the time taken to reboot through BootCamp. I was still able to make an icon of the Windows part of the drive, and it's accessible in the Mac desktop. I can therefore click and drag files back and forth. It would be nice to have this happen as both operating systems run at the same time, but I'm sure this will be available some time in the future.br /br /There are quite a few little things that have now become automated, much to my pleasure. For instance, getting access to the other computers in the home network is now a little less of a process and the icons representing other computers appear automatically in their own section of the far left column of the finder window. At the moment many of the other things just don't spring to mind. They just pop up as pleasant surprises here and there. They're not necessarily crucial things, but the details still make me happy.br /br /The one disappointment comes just from the knowledge that there's one earlier version of OSX that has a driver that can make our particular printer (an Epson Stylus Photo 1280)recognizable by the AirPort Extreme. Otherwise there's no way to get that printer to work from the router. To be fair, this isn't so much the fault of the OS. It's just that seeing documentation that there was one version that could do it, and then to find that this one can't is a little disappointing. |
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| "Speechless." | 2008-09-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2TNLQEZ9CPFCA |
| Mac OS X is amazing no glitches, the best automatic updates, better performance, Just one of the best Os out there. Mac Leopard is the Ferrari and Windows Vista is the Ford Festivia. Just one of those things you must trust. In god theres Apple. |
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| "Order was cancelled!" | 2008-09-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1630U0LYJD25C |
Said they did not have "Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard" in stock, so the order
was cancelled. As far as "Leopard" goes I already own it, this was a present for my
father. |
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| "Gotta Take Away a Star, Because of a Bad Up Grade" | 2008-09-08 |
| - Reviewed By vestairene |
I'm sure a bazillion and one people have weighed in on Leopard, so my voice probably will be drowned out by the sea of others, but I've got something to say and I'm going to say it here. I've been a Mac person, longer than most, back before System 10, back before the fantastic upgrade to System 7, back, back, back. I remember my Mac Portable that ran for twenty hours, cost seven thousand dollars and had a whopping ten gig hard drive. I've loved every improvement and most went okay.
But I did a routine system upgrade from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4 and lost my sound on my iMac. Couldn't get it back. Zapped my Pram, no dice, tried to reinstall the system, but got no joy. In the end I had to take my machine into my local dealer and would have had to pay eighty bucks, but I got lucky because I'd purchased the extended Apple Warranty.
That was three months ago and I've been afraid to upgrade my MacBook as I don't want to spend eighty dollars, because it's not on warranty, but my husband told me I was being dumb and so I finally went ahead and upgraded with my fingers crossed and it went without a hitch, didn't lose my sound. So even though like all Mac systems, this is a five star system, I've gotta, just gotta take away a star because maybe the upgrade works fine now, but it didn't earlier.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene |
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| "New OS Amazing" | 2008-08-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A106C2UX90XEIY |
Late to the party, I wanted to make sure that Apple had ironed out the kinks in the latest OS update.
For the most part, the update works great for end-users. However, I run a mail and web server on a Mac Mini that I applied the upgrade to, and once again, all the configuration files for file sharing, Apache and Postfix were altered and no indication was given that they would have to be re-edited to work with the newer versions of the open source tools. It would be more "Apple like" of Apple to give upgraders some notice of this kind of change -- especially _before_ updating. |
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| "Yay - We Can Run Bootcamp! Hoorah!" | 2008-08-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: AG0QMUY1ZLKJG |
You can run XP, Linux, Unix, OS X all on one laptop. What's NOT to love?
Bootcamp comes with Leopard as a free addon... totally worth it! |
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| "Necessary Upgrade" | 2008-08-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A13F7UMI9BBA93 |
| Leopard 10.5.1 navigates smoothly, yet additional memory, also was installed. The iMacG5 is not a light home PC; I was glad I did not buy a new computer. |
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| "Everything old is new again" | 2008-08-17 |
| - Reviewed By crash2455 |
I purchased this product mainly out of necessity, as the current generation of Mac Pro video cards don't accept anything less than MacOSX 10.5.2. That said, I appreciated the boosts in speed and efficiency over Tiger. There have been many small changes to the UI, such as the new pop-out expansion of folders in the dock, and the addition of Spaces, which adds an extra number of desktops.
My praises aside, I'm a little disappointed in this current version. It doesn't bring much to the table. Where 10.3 brought Expose and 10.4 brought the dashboard, 10.5 brings Spaces (as I previously mentioned). Spaces is mildly useful, but a bit of a processor hog, and its position is redundant, as Expose does all the same things with simple keystrokes, and you don't have to navigate through all of your screens. Also, they dropped support for 256 colors in 10.5.3, so any games that may run in that color mode (such as Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo II and Starcraft) will no longer run.
All in all, I like the speed and efficiency boosts, but I wish that they did a little more with this installment. |
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