installation was fast 35mins easy and hassle free. once it was set up my first impressions were WOW this looks really cool it was solid, fast, stable, thumbs up to Apple. But after the initial installation of his software I couldn’t help noticing the super NASTY sidebar that made me feel like I was using XP AND YOU CANT CHANGE IT??? the other thing I really don’t like is the in collum view. when you go to preview an audio file you click on the icon to hear it but you can not skip it forward…. in order to do that you have do it in quickview by pressing apple-y or clicking the eye button in the tool bar… Whats wrong with quicktime bit like in Tiger….And we had a kernel panic in the first 5houres……

If I could skin it with tigers skin I would install it on my G5 but as it is at the mo its a step back in functionality as i see it. I didnt move to Tiger untill 10.4.6 was out panther was so solid.

Shame to say all this as I love Apples OS and have done since day one, But i really dont like the new line stuff….

Sunda

Mike

The upgrade took about 40 minutes and I didn’t have to touch anything until the first-and-only reboot.

I agree that the menu bar is annoying, I can see an update coming very shortly because frankly, it annoys everyone !

I am a graphic designer and Quick Look is definitely helpful as Adobe Bridge was hungry in system resources.

The Spaces application is quite neat, although not ground breaking, since most Linux distros have provided it for the past million years.

Overall, it didn’t take long for the update, it didn’t quite require as much space as first stated by Apple, so I am very pleased with it.

Aivanne

Seems to me to be more akin to Win 95 -> Win 98 or Win 98 -> Millenium.

Some revisions under the hood, some new features (ie: improved menu support & multi-monitor/desktop support). Naw this sounds like a .5 update. Not that such is bad. Nor is $150 unreasonable for such an update.

- Saj

“It also asked me if I was sure I wanted to run FireFox, telling me that I was running it for the first time. That felt very Vista-like.”

Tiger does that too
It happens when you have something like Firefox as the default app for web pages. Upgrade it, then start it for the first time by double-clicking an .html file rather than the app itself.

I think many of the features are improvements, but the interface doesn’t initially feel as clean and minimalist. I’m sure I’ll get used to it quickly.

I have had little to no trouble at all with Leopard. I did a clean install and backed all my work up on an external drive. I have a 15″ 1.5ghz Powerbook with a combo drive, and it took 10 minutes to verify the DVD, then maybe 45 minutes to install.

So far everything i have installed has worked perfectly. CS3, Textmate, Transmit, Firefox, MAMP, and a few others. So far, I have not been disappointed Leopard aside from the fact that I cannot use Sogudi in Safari 3.

I will admit that the asking if you want to open a program for the first time is a little annoying, but it is a FAR cry away from Vista. I used Vista for about 3 days before i was so disgusted with its silly “security” features, that i reinstalled XP.

On that note, I will have to say that comparing Leopard as “Tiger -> Leopard as XP -> Vista” is very unfair. Leopard is more than just an interface upgrade and some added swish like Vista was. It adds many substantial features that i am continuously being wowed at, and I would heartily recommend the upgrade. But with ANY OS, i think a clean install is the best choice. An OS manufacturer cannot make sure that every 3rd party app will work perfectly on an upgrade install. That would halt innovation i think.

But i digress. I mean no offense with anything I said, just sharing opinion.

The upgrades are not minor ones. Minor updates are automatically updated for free. Think of Tiger -> Leopard as XP -> Vista.