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Mac OS X v.10.5 Leopard is the newest release of Apple’s innovative, stable and compatible operating system for Macintosh computers. This new release includes an elegant new interface and over 300 new innovations designed to help customers accomplish any task. Improvements have been included for all your favorite Mac programs like iChat and Mail, as well as all-new features such as Quick Look, which lets you peruse the contents of a multiple-page document or video w… More >>
#1 by Creative Geek on March 10th, 2010
Leopard, Apples new operating system for the Mac platform is a terrible waste of time and money unless you own an Intel Mac. On a G5 desktop it is full of bugs and crashes constantly. Worst product ever from Apple. Do not buy this if your Mac is not Intel. My machine is now in shambles and Apple’s tech support is terrible. Buyer beware!!
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by A. Fraser on March 10th, 2010
The necessity for this product on 4+ year old MACs seems to be Bill Gates’ retirement parting shot to Steve Jobs
and all Apple users. Just after Gates announced his retirement, my MAC (and that of several of my friends) could no longer do what it had been doing for years (get Hotmail, attach and forward data, etc.), and told us to “upgrade your browser”. So, we drove 50 miles to the nearest Apple Store, which told us to go to Best Buy or Amazon (to buy a product that says, “made at Apple in California” on its box cover). Then, the installation instructions were generic, so we had to hire a consultant to install it on the different models… Now I fully understand why Gates and Jobs get to retire long before me — the next time Apple and Microsoft pull this scam, I’m cutting everyone out of my life who can’t remember how to use snail mail –(Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard)
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Roy S. Miller on March 10th, 2010
I am a systems programmer interested in human factors and usability. For that reason, I very strongly dislike Microsoft Windows, etc. Years ago, based on that dislike, I purchased a Mac G5 2.0GHz swearing to Mac and never look back.
I only lasted six months on the Mac as it was even worse than the PC. Currently, I have been forced to use a Mac exclusively for the past few months so I upgraded to OS-X Leopard hoping that things would be better?
They are not. Apple had that snob-oriented “Think Different” ad campaign almost ten years ago. Not “better” but “different”. Almost entirely unusable if you are in the least bit discerning.
1) Installation was reasonably painless
File management is a PAIN. “My kingdom for ‘cut and paste’”
2) Crashes, etc. Had to upgrade from 512MB to 1GB.
3) Crashes, apparent memory leaks? Had to upgrade from 1GB to 2GB.
4) Absolutely no accessibility for people with epilepsy. Blinking cursor cannot be disabled. Stupid ( “Think Different” ) rotating colored disk that comes up at the most inopportune moments. ( this is epileptogenic for some people ). Stupid rippling progress bars ( “Think Different”, again. Unfortunately Microsoft has gone to this abomination, too. This, again, is epileptogenic)
5) Worthless help and documentation ( even worse than Microsoft )
6) Apple applications are generally junk. Preview is worthless but you are basically stuck with it.
7) Idiot bouncing dock icons that DEMAND attention. Again, epileptogenic
9) Totally idiot ( “Think Different”, as usual ) implementation of “invalid password” when switching users. The whole display frame vibrates, so to speak. I have seizures every time this happens.
10) Boot times take about ( at least ) twice as long now. Before, Leopard, we would turn off the computer. Now, we can’t as it takes too long to reboot. When switching back and forth between our two accounts, in mine, the mouse speed is always hyperfast when I log in. That I don’t understand. Once I open an application it reverts to the speed I set in preferences.
11) As far as crashes, i’ve lost count. ( this is a simple installation with nothing unusual, btw ).
OS-X is so unfriendly, unusable, undocumented that, to me, it is worthless. I would throw this Mac away if it were mine. ( I made a mistake of having my ex-girlfriend get a Mac as I thought it would be easier for her to use then a PC. BIG MISTAKE ). I don’t use computers because I like jerking off with them; I use them to get work done on them. Apples are for snobs, not people.
Comments:
1) Microsoft is trying to out-apple this lemon operating system and Vista is totally inaccessible to people with epilepsy, too. If you have photosensitive / pattern sensitive epilepsy you had better stock up on XP computers.
2) If I had to chose between the Microsoft Vista juggernaut and this Apple Leopard lemon, I would chuck both computers. Hence staying with XP ’til death do us part. ( XP is fairly inaccessible, too, but at least you can disable the blinking caret. I notice that any newer, Vista compatible application that also runs on XP, is generally inaccessible. The trend seems to use indeterminate progress bars ( the ones with the group of squares rapidly cycling across the progress bar or the one ( used by Norton Internet Security ) that … Both of those cause very unpleasant seizures. I can’t tolerate this Apple blinking cursor as I have trouble so enough
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Cecil Monroe on March 10th, 2010
Said they did not have “Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard” in stock, so the order
was cancelled. As far as “Leopard” goes I already own it, this was a present for my
father.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Chris Gough on March 10th, 2010
There is something really exciting about getting your computer on the cutting edge with new software…but leopard was a big disappointment…for starters, it took forever to download, and even though I had no problems with it at all, it just took soooo looooong! To top it off, it did not even come with some of the basic stuff, like: Excel, Word, links to You Tube etc. I was a little disappointed, but since it was given to me as a gift…it is hard to give it one star.
Rating: 2 / 5