So, for those who don't like Leopard, why not? And for those who do, what do you like best??

[ssledoux]

I was reading Bruceko below talking about his wort purchase being Leopard. Let's have some input from those who are unhappy with the switch, and of course, counter attacks from those who love it!

[beerman]

I am very unhappy that after installing Leopard that ical syncing with .mac no longer works. This is such a basic service that I don't understand how they could screw it up or how it could have been overlooked during testing. For this feature alone I regret having installed Leopard as I use it and rely on syncing every day.

On the positive side I think time machine is a stroke of geneous. I also like the way folders in the dock behave.

[DRR]

I just upgraded one of my machines. I did upgrade, not Archive and Install, which I'll do for the others. I had a lot of trouble upgrading.

First, it hung after restart on a blue screen. This was apparently caused by an old APE. Minor glitch, but fixable. After I thought I had that fixed, Leopard hung loading the finder. That turned out to be a problem with divx software. Fixed that, and lo and behold, somehow my user account got switched from Admin to Standard ?! Had to then log in as root and switch it back.

All in all, very minor glitches. But 3 in one install, for an apple software product, has never happened to me. Some turned out to be third-party faults, but in the end, I think it reflects poorly on Apple. APE and Divx are not at all uncommon for a mac user to have installed; was there not adequate beta testing? And switching an account from Admin to Standard sounds like an Apple bug.

Usability seems fine so far, but the troubles installing it reflect poorly.

[DaviDC.]

I've installed it on a Mac Mini, G4 iBook, & MacBook with nary problems.
This was the 1st OS I've ever bought & see no major improvements over 10.4.x.

[mattkime]

Mounted volumes can no longer crash the whole system. that feature alone is worth the price. the rest is icing.

[kj4btkljv]

[quote mattkime]Mounted volumes can no longer crash the whole system. that feature alone is worth the price. the rest is icing.
Crash the whole system? You mean if one becomes unavailable, the delay that's involved (I'm talking about in Tiger) in getting it to dump itself from the desktop and pop up the error message? Just wanted to clarify...

Jeff

[Kramerica]

Biggest annoyance for me has been needing to use old apps that no longer work... Photoshop 7, Popcorn 1, etc. so I have been rebooting into Tiger from my old backup drive for that stuff, then coming back to Leopard for everything else.

[sekker]

I think TIme Machine is worth the upgrade price alone. Truly automated and incremental backups. I will be purchasing an upgrade for my father-in-laws machine just for this feature (this means he can backup and forget about it).

The new Front Row is also very cool, for those that have a media center. Gave new life to an old G4 macmini.

I find my MBP to feel faster - something I did not expect.

I think supported official BootCamp is also a terrific bonus.

Quickview is good, I'm just getting used to it.

This was a nice update to the OS, but not essential. So long as Apple keeps supporting security updates to 10.3 and 10.4, this update is truly optional. It's a nice position to be in.

[MacMagus]

Once I got past the apps that I miss (Windowshade!) and found workarounds for the BS (Stacks), there are still a bunch of annoying bugs in Leopard such as it "forgetting" default printers and "losing" the desktop picture on my second monitor after it wakes from sleep... and then theres the f-ed up transparency everywhere that requires almost EVERY app to be updated just to prevent fugly white blocks from appearing around text in dialogs...

And there's the new idiocy they've implemented to idiot-proof the OS by preventing changes in ownership from the GUI and adding those f-ing ACL's...

[tuqqer]

cons: the dock took away two things I used many times every day: hierarchical views and custom folder icons. However, this was all fixed by the installation of A-Dock. I never use Leopard's dock, which is fine by me.

Pros: I use the new Screen Share almost every day. It has saved me dozens of hours, both traveling by car to web designers' offices to tweak files and brochures, as well as a lot of money, since I can see them do the final tweaks of designs live, instead of the old "Let's increase the font in the tagline" then getting it emailed to me, where I open it up, and email it back, "let's space out the fonts a bit to the left", ad naseam. Screen Share will, in the next few years, alter the way people do their business.

Screen Share alone was worth the upgrade fee.