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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)?
There's no question Leopard has more changes under the hood than any previous OS X release: LLVM, dTrace, ZFS, Core Animation, ObjC 2.0, 64-bit Cocoa, shared calendar store+CalDAV, etc. That's just the new stuff too; it doesn't count the important changes to older things.
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Spaces was great before I killed my MacBook. On the iMac with screen spanning to a 24" Dell, I don't really use it anymore.
I LOVE Time Machine. It saved my butt when I drowned the MacBook. I still use SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner for secondary backups and moving things around between drives, so I could have lived without TM.
10.5.2 seems to be a bit problematic (or perhaps the graphics update that came after?). The Shell screensaver will now freeze up my iMac, so I had to quit using it. I've also had a system freeze while using the computer normally (first time since 10.1 that I've had one of those!) -- but that could have been hardware-related.
Overall, though, a positive experience with Leopard.
I'm certain that 95% of the problems with Leopard were due to having old software installed. The one major issue of a blue screen on start-up was caused by third party software installed that hadn't been updated for a long time.
Those of you that have problems - do they occur if you're logged in as another user to your machine? You'll find slow boots and other problems are caused by stuff you've installed way back and forgotten about that causing issues. You can hold down command-v at boot to see all the system messages in which you might be able to see what's slowing things down.
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No mean to hijack the thread, but I want to give Mac a try just to know it more, I don't know anyone that uses Mac either. I had to use a mac computer at work today which kind of gets me curious. I still rather have Windows for all the performance needs, but I'm looking for some other fun experiences since I have been bored using windows for the last 10 years. Unless I'm missing something Leopard OS looks like it's at about $100 which is really affordable comparing to Vista.
I still don't know how they fit all that into a 24" monitor, but it uses much less electricity than my midtower.
I have been having one problem with Leopard. Whenever I close my laptop lid and open it back up the dock won't work or pop up for a while. Not sure why it is doing this.
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No mean to hijack the thread, but I want to give Mac a try just to know it more, I don't know anyone that uses Mac either. I had to use a mac computer at work today which kind of gets me curious. I still rather have Windows for all the performance needs, but I'm looking for some other fun experiences since I have been bored using windows for the last 10 years. Unless I'm missing something Leopard OS looks like it's at about $100 which is really affordable comparing to Vista.
Vista pricing makes no sense. Especially when it really offers very little new over XP or that you can source for free. Bells and whistles.
Lots of extra's in OS X 10.5.
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I still don't know how they fit all that into a 24" monitor, but it uses much less electricity than my midtower.
Your mini tower proabably has spare capacity in power terms for you to add power hungry components like HD's optical drives, graphics cards etc. You can't do that on the iMac which I assume your talking about. Ones a city car the others a Small van. Bad analogy, but you get the idea.
I use Mac's on and off. But what made computing fun was always having something new to play with. So I'd like to get Mac myself to play with. I still need Windows PC for work & games though.
You know macs can run windows either in a window (with parallels etc) or a separate boot partition right?
Yes but for the spec I needed for a .net and MS SQL development and games. The PC hardware was half the price. It would make no sense to ditch my year old 17" XP laptop, to get at best (being optimistic) the same performance (in games and development apps) but pay twice the price if not more for a new MacBookPro. (I'm not in the US). Not managed to find what (IMO) is a bargain in used, or refurbs MacBooks/MBP's yet.
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