10.5 First impressions - post yours

[ScottW]

Wow. Got it in just before noon today. Fired it up and installed it, took about 40 minutes or so, doing the Archive and install option. But, by the time I actually got the thing booted up and logged in, it was probably closer to 55-60 minutes.

It is whopping fast. Love it. Still installing things like XCode right now and trying to play around with a few of the various features and it is a speed demon. More info as it I use it more.

[DarkSorrow]

Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese

- Boot camp is HUGELY improved. The Windows drivers can be installed from the Leopard disc itself (no need to burn a driver disc). The new drivers are perfect -- you can ajust brightness, volume, keyboard luminosity, etc just like in OSX -- you even get the familar rounded grey box when you adjust volume/brightness.

1.4 Boot Camp Beta already have that feature. but it was less reponsive than in OSX. hopefully it more reponsive in Leopard.

I wonder do they fix when you make the brightness all the way to zero, the backlit went off like in OSX?

[DarkSorrow]

I wonder how any of us have a PowerPC and Leopard.

Leopard is working great on PowerPC or something? i see great news about Intel Macs, but what about PowerPC

[Captain Code]

I have a PPC G5 tower but I have to make sure nothing(software) will break because it's my dad's computer that he uses for work.

[Lt Major Burns]

the system font is different... not sure what it is, but O's now look more like 0's.

buttons are sort of sunk in a little bit.

played with resolution independence, and it's clear they havent really been working on it. some elements are high res, most aren't (apple menu apple is, but selected apple menu apple isn't, for example).

new dock's actualy a bit of a pain, i was looking forward to it as well.

spotlight reindexes.

my internet is horrendously slow since the update. hope it doesn't last/is a coincidence.

photoshop and illustrator both hung on first open. seem to working fine since

got mine this morning at about 7.30am GMT. that's before anyone on the internet, i think. more when i think of it...

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by DarkSorrow

I wonder how any of us have a PowerPC and Leopard.

Leopard is working great on PowerPC or something? i see great news about Intel Macs, but what about PowerPC

I have an iMac G5 that I eventually am going to move to Leopard. I don't know how soon I can accomplish this so someone might actually beat me to the punch. For now, Leopard is going to have to wait until I can scrounge up the money.

[icemanjc]

Originally Posted by nixgeek

I have an iMac G5 that I eventually am going to move to Leopard. I don't know how soon I can accomplish this so someone might actually beat me to the punch. For now, Leopard is going to have to wait until I can scrounge up the money.

I've got a iMac G5 and I'll be able to try it out on it tonight and hopefully on my iBook, so I'll tell you how it goes.

[Lt Major Burns]

i can't seem to find AirPort interface robustness in leopard. which is crap, as it's the only way my Powermac will pick up a decent signal.... (the signal has to pass through pretty much the entire length of the 2-foot aluminium and interference case....)

i hope it's something simple to fix