Ken,
Agreed.
But (if you're Apple), don't tell me you've revolutionized the OS (i.e. made conspicuous changes) and then give us Leopard.
Chas,
Excellent! Sounds like the new features will find some appreciation in your home. I have two Macs, but one of them is rarely ever used, contains no data, and is usually powered off altogether. The other is basically a nice machine for internet use and for my daughter to write papers on and chat with her friends. It doesn't contain much data, either...but I'm sure that when I pick up a dedicated backup drive, I'll find Time Machine useful.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Despite the "over 300 new features!", the real story for Leopard is what Apple did for software developers. They cleaned a lot of stuff up, drastically improved the developer tools, and added some great new APIs. In the process, they completed 64-bit support, which should have positive implications for photographers, who tend to use applications that need to address vast quantities of memory. (Alas, none of this will benefit Photoshop one iota until Adobe reworks their code base, but such is life.)
The bells and whistles in Leopard may largely disappoint, but the future for Mac photo apps is showing great potential.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
There is a Leopard update (10.51) available today, fixing some compatibility and security issues.
Having used 10.5.1 for a few weeks, my feeling is that Leopard is still not ready for prime time.
I'm experiencing ongoing instability in Mail.app, flakiness in third party apps like Lightroom, and general rough edges every which way. Also, compatible printer drivers are still trickling out.
I recommend waiting to see how 10.5.2 is, rumored to be released in early January.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Apple always provides new bells and whistles to make their OS upgrade marketable. The real value however, is in the improvements to the basic OS--stuff you don't see.
I have Leopard on my Powerbook and Tiger on my desktop machine. I'm waiting for some third party compatibility updates before upgrading my production machine to Leopard. It's no fun to upgrade and then find out there is no Epson printer driver available yet etc.
By the way, is Steve Jobs a cat person? What's he got against dogs? Can you imagine an OS called Rottweiler or Wolfhound or Poodle? I wonder what marketing genius did the research that resulted in naming software after cats.
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