So, How's your Leopard experience?

[saint.panda]

Love it mainly for the small changes but also some of the new big features: Time Machine, Spaces, systemwide spelling check, Quick Look by hitting the space button, new Help search feature (CMD+Shift+/), faster, easier Sharing and network connections, improved Finder (while keeping it lean unlike Path Finder), more powerful Preview, nicer overall look, editing file names doesn't highlight the extension, Mail's message URLs.

Things that could be improved: I'd like to have British English instead of AE for spelling and editing events in iCal (CMD+E) has become a pain in the ass.

[mshan]

Do you feel the big new features are fully developed, or are they still in rudimentary / experimental stage, and will be further refined in later OS releases?

[AlanY]

Originally Posted by saint.panda

Things that could be improved: I'd like to have British English instead of AE for spelling

You can do this. Just change the default spelling dictionary to British English, and it propagates across every application. I have mine set to Canadian English.

I can't remember how I did it, but I think you just have to go into TextEdit, right click, "Spelling and Grammar", "Check Document Now" and then select a new language at the bottom of the dialog. I think that makes it the new systemwide default.

[saint.panda]

Originally Posted by AlanY

You can do this. Just change the default spelling dictionary to British English, and it propagates across every application. I have mine set to Canadian English.

I can't remember how I did it, but I think you just have to go into TextEdit, right click, "Spelling and Grammar", "Check Document Now" and then select a new language at the bottom of the dialog. I think that makes it the new systemwide default.

It worked, thanks for the tip!

[Wodgy]

Originally Posted by mshan

Do you feel the big new features are fully developed, or are they still in rudimentary / experimental stage, and will be further refined in later OS releases?

Leopard is solid. The 10.5.2 update that came out last week killed all the important gripes people were having, but even before that, it was solid. I don't think you'll be disappointed with the new features. Of course they'll evolve... for instance, Noel Dellafano has stated that Time Machine will use ZFS snapshots in the next big OS release, which will be nice, but right now it's a nice solid system.

Probably more important, there have been some big refinements in Tiger's key features. For instance, Spotlight is now several times faster, the interface is better, searches are easier, and it indexes applications separately for speed so if you want to use it as a launcher you can.

It's worth the money.

[Vergency]

Here are some possible fixes for your problems.

Originally Posted by RYCeT

File sharing with windows network

System Preferences>Security>Firewall>Allow all incoming connections

Originally Posted by RYCeT

Unable to see one of my NTFS partition

From OSX, use Paragon NTFS or 3G-NTFS; from Windows, use Macdrive.

Originally Posted by RYCeT

Bootcamp annoying trackpad problem.

Use a mouse.


Hope all goes well for you.

~V

[rillah]

Originally Posted by RYCeT

Well, my macbook is my first mac experience and so far I'm loving it. I love iCal, address book, spaces, expose, active corners, widgets. Docks is allright but I prefer windows classic menu. Leopard definitely is a lot better than Vista.

Problems I have which were not fixed up to now,

File sharing with windows network
When I first got my macbook, it able to detect and join my windows network. However, when I start installing osx update, it's all gone and I have to connect them up one by one everytime I start my macbook (smb//...) It sure is annoying and I can't use my printer connected to one of my pc desktop which forced me to connect it directly to my macbook everytime I need to print one.

Unable to see one of my NTFS partition
I've partitioned my hd to 3 partition, HFS+ for OSX, NTFS for Xp, and another NTFS for personal files. I have paragon NTFS to be able to write on NTFS partition from osx. I got no problem writing on ntfs partition on external hd. At first, osx able to see my ntfs partition but it can't see files saved by xp on that partition and vice versa, xp also unable to see files saved by osx. Now, osx is unable even to see that ntfs partition eventhough it's working fine when I use xp from bootcamp.

bootcamp annoying trackpad problem.
It's very annoying to type in my xp bootcamp since they have not figure out on putting trackpad menu. I want double tap, disable trackpad while typing.

I also recently just dived into the Mac world with my MacBook. Took a few days to get used to the OS. But now whenever I've got to switch back to Windows on a friends computer for instance, I feel so lost lol. Wheres my apple button!? lol

I really like Spaces. It really helps since the desktop space on these little macbooks are so tiny. iCal is great too. Widgets are really useful. I use iStat Pro to keep track of Cpu temperature and memory use.

Only problems so far is that a lot of the programs I planned to run still aren't Leopard compatible yet (Protools, Recycle 2.1). Guess that isn't really the OS' fault.... sorta lol.

[mshan]

Would you consider Leopard just another evolutionary release of Mac OS X, or is it really the start of Mac OS XI (i. e. is it radically different under the hood, with OS X moniker just kept for marketing purposes)?

[Uncle Erik]

I've been running Leopard since the day it was released.

Just updated to 10.5.2, and still, zero problems.

[Zanth]

Originally Posted by mshan

Would you consider Leopard just another evolutionary release of Mac OS X, or is it really the start of Mac OS XI (i. e. is it radically different under the hood, with OS X moniker just kept for marketing purposes)?

I have only used Panther through Leopard but I must say from my perspective it seems that Leopard is closer to a XI release than the other releases. 10.5 is incredible over 10.4 not just with stability and speed but with the added features in the gui and file system. The added programs, tightly integrated like Time Machine make 10.5 the OS to beat in today's marketplace in my opinion.

With Bootcamp and VM Fusion (I favour this over Parallels) a Mac can become the perfect workstation or desktop/home computer.

Those that want to run FOSS exclusively will always turn to linux or *bsd and those that want gaming will likely always have to remain in the Windows camp unless they are willing to dual boot on the MAC.

Yet for everything else I find that my work flow has improved and the ease of use has increased and time to do monotonous tasks has decreased. With integrated scripting with Apple Scripts, even monotonous tasks can be easily done away with.