Comments on: Leopard: Worth the upgrade?

By: Si

Si — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:10:49 +0000

I did a simple upgrade, and that seems to have worked just fine. One oddity: In Photoshop, my erasers now always have a hard edge. No idea if this is general issue or just me!

Simon

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:47:04 +0000

dont, only a couple of weeks to go . . . still quite unorganized to be honest!

I havn’t tried playing anything through Divx since, it was quite disturbing. The ensuing questions of “what the **** was that? have you broken it?” didn’t help much, either!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:22:59 +0000

Well you have me stumped there Greg! Never used divx player, or Leopard. Do you still get the problem when listening through headphones?

I’m working myself up to buy Leopard - maybe it will be in my Xmas stocking!

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:01:38 +0000

i appreciate this isn’t the place buy i can’t find your email.

Any one had problems with divx player? just tried to play a tv show through it and got what sounded like feed back. way too loud. can only assume it’s the program, the file is fine . . .

and i’m still loving spaces! take the plunge . . .

cheers

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:48:24 +0000

@Si: That sounds relatively encouraging! Out of interest, did you do an Upgrade, an Erase & Install, or an Archive & Install (I think that’s what the options are called?) I’ve heard horror stories where people upgraded or erased & installed and it wiped everything and crashed horribly, so I’m guessing Archive & Install is the safest bet?

@Greg: I really miss multiple workspaces from my Linux days, so I’m really looking forward to this feature in Leopard I must admit!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:51:04 +0000

Having got my Imac with leopard included in the box, Tiger never really saw the light of day, so i can’t compare.

I can that i’m enjoying using it, spaces is getting a lot of use. That alone would make it worth while upgrading from my point of view. It almost eliminates the need for expose.

By: Si

Si — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:41:35 +0000

I did it. I upgraded, adhering to my usual routine of waiting for the first bugfix.

The bad: The dock’s a pain. Because the apps protrude, “fullscreen” windows just make everything look ragged, and the tinted menubar sucks ass too. Stacks are fun but because they take on the icon of the first thing in the stack, you never know what you’re looking at. Luckily all this can be solved with this thing called Palette, though I should add I haven’t installed that -

http://www.cocoamug.com/palette/index.html

On the plus side, Time machine is great - I’m a thickie. Quicklook goes like the proverbial s*** off a shovel. It’s way fast, don’t worry about that. for me, with a lot of graphics files to preview, Quicklook is probably worth £80 all on its own. The Finder sidebar is also good, though the way it handles server shares takes a bit of getting used to.

I guess we’ll see about iChat!

I think for me, the upgrade was finally worth it because I know that at some point I’ll have to because I want to get a feature of some small app I’m addicted to. I’m thinking this for instance:

http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/features.html?ovmkt=D0C70F033B0041D39E0C1FA48B67DA2C&WT.mc_id=D0C70F033B0041D39E0C1FA48B67DA2C

Plus it’s new. And a bit of a grin.

lastly, the hologram box and “space” desktop are something rare for an Apple product - tacky.

si xx