Leopard Reviews

[Jacksloadedgun]

i put the big cat to sleep about a week ago...

i got sick of having to deal with restarting my computer all the time. It did run a look quicker on my powerbook g4 but the heartache it was giving me was not worth it in the long run.

i loved the way the dock looked though.

[serpicolugnut]

I picked up my copy at WWDC and had been using it since then. I still have it running on my iMac, but I took it off of my Macbook Pro (2.16ghz, 256MB VRAM, 2GB RAM, 1st gen). The reason was that the system idling was taking up so much CPU cycles that it constantly had the fans whirring on the MBP. Mail and Safari both would routinely consume 100% of the CPU resources, making the fans go beserk. The same behavior didn't occur on the iMac.

Once they get the quirks worked out (it is BETA, and they do have 3 months after all) it is going to be a great release. You can moan and groan about not liking this or that, but the entire OS feels more polished, all of the apps have some really great additions, and once you use it, you will hate going back to Tiger.

[Qion]

I picked up my copy at WWDC and had been using it since then. I still have it running on my iMac, but I took it off of my Macbook Pro (2.16ghz, 256MB VRAM, 2GB RAM, 1st gen). The reason was that the system idling was taking up so much CPU cycles that it constantly had the fans whirring on the MBP. Mail and Safari both would routinely consume 100% of the CPU resources, making the fans go beserk. The same behavior didn't occur on the iMac.

Once they get the quirks worked out (it is BETA, and they do have 3 months after all) it is going to be a great release. You can moan and groan about not liking this or that, but the entire OS feels more polished, all of the apps have some really great additions, and once you use it, you will hate going back to Tiger.

Is iChat as nifty as it looks?

[fryke]

I agree with most of the points you've made, but I've actually enjoyed coming back to Tiger for two main reasons (besides quirks and bugs that are going to get worked out 'til final):

1.) The Dock. It _really_ isn't an improvement whatsoever in my opinion. It doesn't look or feel more professional, it just looks overloaded and intrusive.

2.) The transparent menubar. It feels _wrong_. The little utility that put a white bar behind it had its own problem with full-screen VLC (i.e. it was in front of that...), so I had to constantly quit and relaunch that utility.

The rest of the look I'll enjoy, quite probably.

[nixgeek]

I'm hoping that once the final version of Leopard is out, the menubar stays solid or at least give you the option to change the level of transparency. The new Dock is pretty, but I don't see anything that fantastic over the old one (excluding Stacks, of course).

[Captain Code]

I picked up my copy at WWDC and had been using it since then. I still have it running on my iMac, but I took it off of my Macbook Pro (2.16ghz, 256MB VRAM, 2GB RAM, 1st gen). The reason was that the system idling was taking up so much CPU cycles that it constantly had the fans whirring on the MBP. Mail and Safari both would routinely consume 100% of the CPU resources, making the fans go beserk. The same behavior didn't occur on the iMac.

Once they get the quirks worked out (it is BETA, and they do have 3 months after all) it is going to be a great release. You can moan and groan about not liking this or that, but the entire OS feels more polished, all of the apps have some really great additions, and once you use it, you will hate going back to Tiger.

I've been using my WWDC copy for about a week and a half and no problems so far like you have, on my MBP too.

I think Apple has done a good job with this so far.

[Exebit]

Just kinda curious if anyone got a copy of the leopard beta (outside of developers) and what was their general impressions of it were? how stable is it? what older programs can be run on it? how do you like the new features?

I tested Leopard for a few days... It's really more stable than all other builds before 9A466. The only applications that don't run on Leopard are applications that were made with REALbasic and REALbasic it's self. (Other applications I haven't found yet... )

Some of the new features are really cool and helpful. Most helpful is TimeMachine I think... But it's interface is a bit eye-candy. (Some of you already said.)
QuickLook is helpful, too... I used it very often since I installed Leopard on my Mac.
And the entire system is much much faster than 10.4.10! The speed is really really awsome! Some Applications (like iTunes) bounced more than 5 times until it was opened under Tiger... Under Leopard it bounces 1 time until it's opened and ready to use.
Safari 3 is as twice as fast than Safari 2. The Web-Pages are displayed pretty fast. (Now it's really fun to surf the net. )

Now... Enough of "pretelling" about Leopard.

My impression: Apple has done a really good job I think. Leopards new design is cool... (It's somthing new... And a bit eye-candy.)
And I think I'll buy the final version when it releases!

[Madelin]

The speed is really really awsome! Some Applications (like iTunes) bounced more than 5 times until it was opened under Tiger... Under Leopard it bounces 1 time until it's opened and ready to use.

Just had to say, my iTunes opens in one bounce and ive not got the fastest iMac going. Im going to get leopard solely because i like to be up-to-date though.