Paul Thurrott has an interesting take on Leopard which seems similar to my own impressions so far. It's a good read which is pretty enlightening about Leopard, and Vista as well...give it a look: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/macosx_leopard.asp
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
It is nice to have choices. The world would be a very boring place if everyone had the same opinion. Here is an article in PC magazine that raves about Leopard, giving it a 4.5 out of 5 stars:
You know, Paul Thurrott gave Leopard a very positive rating - four out of five possible - as well. He just points out (as I did in my original post) that there's not much that's new and exciting about Leopard, despite all the rhetoric from Apple to the contrary.
I agree - choices are great. That's why I have Macs and PC's, and why I'm considering adding a Nikon D3 to my collection of otherwise all-Canon gear. Can you imagine if Canon had hyped up the 40D as being "groundbreaking"?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
My general rule is I never upgrade until I have to . . . . but sometimes it is nice to be on the newer software. A lot of small things get improved upon to keep up with whats currently happening or acceptable as far as formats etc. Case in point I had been running a G5 on 10.2 something. We had to upgrade (10.3.9) in the middle of an editing project (video) just so some music software would work. It made me very nervous.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Terry, there are three reasons that make 10.5 compelling to me (anybody else starting to get all those different cat names mixed up? Tiger was 10.4, but then it starts to get hazy: Jaguar, Panther, Ocelot??)
1) "Back to my Mac". I already have a .Mac account, and being able to get into my home LAN from my laptop from anywhere is going to be invaluable (when I'm out on a job, I invariably forget something, hardware or data-wise :-)
2) controlling other Macs: my wife has one, my daughter and my son. Being able to do stuff on their machines from my machine is going to also save me some time and grief ("Dad, my email isn't working!").
3) Time Machine: I did get a dedicated drive for backup. I've been using tape and DVDs and drives for over a decade now, all controlled by Retrospect. I've just hooked up a terabyte drive to my network, and every machine will be backing up to it and _I_ won't have to be the one that solves restoration problems, as Time Machine is so easy for them to use.
Are any of these reasons compelling to someone thinking strictly as a photographer? No way, but they are compelling to me as someone with a family of Macs. I used to run a Mac tech support company, and old habits die hard (that's where all the other Macs in the house came from: old client machines that I bought up :-)
The aesthetics of the new release aren't particularly compelling (stacks is actually an HCI backwards step, imho). I have a feeling that I'll remain productive despite them :-)
Cheers!
Chas
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Having dealt with operating system updates on all kinds of computers for...well...probably longer than most folks here have been on the planet I can say that the programmers that work on these things should all swear to a subset of the same Hippocratic Oath that doctors use. That is, they should swear to at least do no harm.
Inconspicuousness is most often a good thing in operating system updates, unless the goal was to create a tectonic shift on the o/s. Since switching completely to Apple in 2001 I have been extremely impressed by the smoothness and general value of their o/s updates.
If you want conspicuous excitement in your o/s stick with Windows.
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