Here’s my mini review. This is only after a few hours of use on the MacBook Pro and our household iMac .
1. eye candy, pure and simple. there isn’t ONE new function I really need, but it all look sweet.
2. slow baby, slow. one of the things I loved about my macbook vs. my sony vaio (PC) laptop was how fast the macbook boots. well my friend, leopard is a pig, at least on my machine, and I’ve got 4 gig of ram. maybe things will improve? but so far, my mac seems to be starting very window-esque. this might not be a big deal on a desktop machine, but in a laptop its critical. (There is a thread here about this – so I guess, just like with a windows box, I now have to start hacking my way through a NEW OS so that the machine runs properly. Hmmm, deja vu.)
3. is there a revert button on this thing?
If want you really want are a bunch of new effects in PhotoBooth, parental controls (probably easily side stepped), a different way to share machines and do backups (apple claims easier) and more things swooshing across the screen, then this is for you.
There is no revert button. I’ve already gone looking for it, though not for Leopard.
I just upgraded the intel firmware on nearly-new MacBook — as an on-screen prompt recommended out of the blue — and now tiger crashes several times a day. I zapped the PRAM and fixed permissions with the disk repair utility, and it’s still doing it. I don’t have DiskWarrior, so I’m going to have to #@$@#% pay someone who does to look at this now. The machine, barely a month out of the shrinkwrap, was working marvelously before my “upgrade.” Thanks, Mac.
But the dock…. dude… it reflects!!!!!
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Tod. Very shiny. I feel like Homer Simpson when my partner asks me what’s in the new OS – ‘the folders stack and move when you click on them’.
James – i’m telling you – they’re turning into PC’s . It’s amazing. Another Steve Jobs slight of hand, and everyone applauds !!!