My experience with Leopard on my new MacBook

[Qion]

My iMac drives me insane on a daily basis as well. Working with files over 200MB is positively painful, and I've been holding myself back from dumping half my checking account into some new hardware just to mitigate the slowness. It doesn't help knowing I have 1.5GB of RAM and TWO friggin' Core processors.

So, I feel your pain... grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Lt Major Burns]

it sounds like what you want, is Tiger.

[Ferdinand]

Originally Posted by fjdouse

My MacBook does not feel like the dual core 64bit cutting edge power-beastie it should be, I cant say how much better things like rendering are because I cant do any. Video encoding and ripping music IS faster - obviously, but I do feel loading times are slower than Tiger, sometimes there are lags, that damn spinning ball of death still appears.

I don't think that has much to do with Leopard, since I also get that spinning ball now and then, and I'm using Tiger (also on a MacBook). Also many apps take ages to load, for example: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Entourage and Excel.

Originally Posted by fjdouse

Hopefully some more system updates will improve things, I remember being equally vexed at Tiger at first - I miss it now.

Give Leopard some time! I bet after 10.5.2 it's going to work like a charm. You said it yourself: Tiger also wasn't the best at 10.4.0 or 10.4.1.

[Rhisiart]

I have 10.5.1 on my new shiny Mac Mini. Previously I had 10.4.10 on a G4 800.

The spinning wheel of 'Just wait a minute will you?' appears just as often with the new set up as with the old.

I am a little surprised by this.

[Ferdinand]

Oh gosh.... I think I won't buy Leopard at least till 10.5.4 or something!

Weird, they had so much time, but somehow still rushed Leopard...

[bbloke]

Actually, it runs very well for me. I've been using it for a few weeks and haven't had many issues, especially since using 10.5.1. I noticed a few weird things when I first installed 10.5.0, but they seemed to be only the first one or two times I booted. Right now, things seem fine to me... fingers crossed!

[Ferdinand]

I did get Leopard now and its great, I already upgraded to 10.5.1 - but video iChat is not working with someone who has 10.4.11. I wonder why that is? Does iChat now only work with people who have Leopard or what?

[Rhisiart]

Here's another thing I like about Leopard; image icons with white borders.