Comments on: Leopard is tarnishing the reputation of OS X

By: Gavin Priestley

Gavin Priestley — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:07:13 +0000

Hi
Havent had those problems but I can’t get my Leopard to talk to a data projector. Makes presentations a very “up close and personal” event.
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By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:12:22 +0000

Hi: I upgraded to Leopard a month ago, and have had nothing but problems, one after another. For no reason at all, an error code will pop up telling me that __-__-__-_- and had to shut down. Leopard restarted again, and it runs fine for a period of time, then it does it again. I have been unable to determine what circumstances are happening when it shuts down??

Is anyone having this kind of problem with Leopard?

Thanks Larry

By: www.techfeeds.fr

www.techfeeds.fr — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:58:13 +0000

Hi, you should have a look to linux, not to switch definitely but because it has a lot in common with apple and is much more userfriendly than what people think.
You wont have any problem with the installer and after a little time of customisation, your “user experience” will be for sure much better than the one of windows.
Give it a try !

By: tyler

tyler — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:06:38 +0000

never never never upgrade to a new major version of an Apple operating system until at least a x.3 revision (aka 10.5.3). There isn’t anything special specifically with the revision 3, its just usually several months after launch. My standard is to wait until at least 10.x.5.

You can consider this policy conservative and paranoid, but the opposite is tempestuous and irresponsible. Just pick a revision, and consider that your personal “launch” date. Let your excitement build around that.

By: eric

eric — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:03:50 +0000

Re. Tiger v. Panther….

I switched PC to Mac at Panther. It crashed like crazy. I was using Win2K at the time, and by that time it was rock-solid: I think I may have had one actual system crash in the two years before switching. Panther crashed on me at least once a week on my Mini.

But it was very hardware-specific: on my Powerbook, it never crashed at all. Go figger. I’ve heard similar things from others: That Panther was very hardware-sensitive.

After Tiger, I did experience a few of what appeared to be software-related system crashed. But until the past year or so, it wasn’t a regular thing. (But that’s another story.)

So from my perspective, Tiger was (initially) a huge stability upgrade.

Later, I had a recurring problem with the system freezing on wake from hibernation. Not sure whether to blame Tiger or the firmware for that, but it never happened on my Mini or my Powerbook, just on my Macbook Pro.

By: eric

eric — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:58:24 +0000

Personally, I’ve yet to experience anything in Leopard that I regard as an improvement. Spaces is too clumsy to be useful (seems to me to work much more intuitively in KDE); Screen Sharing only seems to work Leopard-to-Leopard, which is not useful to me, so VNC client is still a must; usability of the Dock was initially degraded by the syle-over-substance faux-3D presentation, though at this stage, a year into the product lifecycle, it’s possible to get a clearer visual presentation out of it. Menubar and menu transparency seems to me to be a very clear usability degradation, but then I’m a heretic on the current vogue for the Fittishization of UI design and don’t believe in the top-of-screen menubar, either.

I’ve decided I like the new network browsing UI a little better, but not so much that it would bother me in the least to not have it. Haven’t yet checked to see if you can now copy and paste from text in Dashboard widgets; if so, it would be an argument for switching back to Apple’s dashboard from Yahoo’s.

If I ever get Time Machine working, that will be an improvement. But only a minor one, as I have similar (albeit not as easy to use for file recovery) capability via Synk Pro.

For me, Leopard has really just been the cause of (conservatively) about 30 hours of lost time and effort, as the migration (from a Tiger Macbook to a different Leopard Macbook, using Migration assistant) was exceedingly painful.

By: madra

madra — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:51:24 +0000

i’ve had the same set of problems with leopard through about a dozen installs of every kind – upgrade, archive & install, clean install – across two different machines [G4 PPC and MBP inte], installing from two separate leopard DVDs. we’re now up to version 10,5,6 and leopard is still completely and utterly hopeless. i’ll not list all my probsd here – it would take too long! but check out this thread on the appletalker forum:

http://www.appletalker.net/forum/index.php?req=thread&id=1407

By: feng

feng — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:27:56 +0000

Tiger has so far been the best Operating system I have ever used.

Leopard is disappointment–to put it mildly. It’s now December 2008–and 10.5.5 still has got keyboard freezes all the time! Often I have only one or two programs running and while I try to do some trivial task (say click on a link or a button), everything completely freezes up to minutes.

By: Doris Perez

Doris Perez — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:09:14 +0000

Since Leopard was installed on my Mac OS X, version 10.5.5, I have been unable to us the two programs I’ve been using for 10-12 years at least. One is Adobe Photoshop, and the other is a desktop publishing program I’ve used for many years, and have lots of files I am no longer able to access. A message comes up for both, “the Classic environment is no longer supported.”

I note several others have indicated they wish to downgrade to Tiger (and one other indicated they would but don’t know HOW) – and I too don’t know how to downgrade and get rid of Leopard. I would appreciate help on this, as I am NOT familiar with this type of thing, and have to do something so I can access old files and adjust photos in Photoshop.

Any help will be much appreciated.
Doris

By: Hanii Puppy

Hanii Puppy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:27:41 +0000

Strange, i’ve had Leopard since february and i’ve not had any problems at all o.o