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Manufacturer: Apple
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
Color: 1-user
EAN: 5050053026040
Feature: Introduces over 300 new and enhanced features to OS X, including a new desktop and updated finder enabling easy browsing and sharing between multiple Macs
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB576Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publication Date: 2007-10-31
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Studio: Apple
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Features
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Introduces over 300 new and enhanced features to OS X, including a new desktop and updated finder enabling easy browsing and sharing between multiple Macs
Take advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware with full native 64-bit support, multi-core optimization, and new Core animation
Preview files without opening an application using Quick Look
Easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac with Time Machine
Create groups of applications and instantly switch between them with Spaces
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 without opening the whole file, and Time Machine, which can recover files in seconds. OS X 10.5 has all this, as well as the exceptional search technology, stunning graphics, rapid connectivity and solid stability you've come to expect from the OSX family of operating systems. iChat now lets you present movies, presentations and virtually any document during your chtas with iChat Theater. You can even save your audio and video chats for sharing or synching with an iPod to play on the go. Communicate with 30 professionally designed stationary template, keep important notes and track to-do items in Mail You can now group applications into Spaces and move between each Space with keyboard shortcuts to organize your windows and reduce clutter
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Nightmare 10.5
Comment: Basically beware. You WILL have to do a complete clean install. Once you do so, many applications that formally worked fine, will no longer. Some will not even work with the new system. Many apps will need to you re-install, others will ask you again for serial numbers and activations. Make sure you have all those numbers handy. Sorry for those who have "borrowed" applications, chances are, you'll never be able to use them again.
I had gotten Leopard as a door prize at a motion graphics event. It took me a year to have a free weekend where I thought why not. Why not turned into about three weeks of trouble-shooting, borrowing wired keyboards from work and having to turn down freelance projects because I had to re-install apps, re-install the plug ins and even at this point there are two 3D applications I use that I now have to pay for the upgrade on in order to use them.
In the end, not only wasn't it worth it to upgrade, but the bells and whistles are more of a gimmick than something that would help me in my daily workflow. Time Machine became so annoying I turned it off, yeah great, it's there, but it eats up all the space on your external drives until you chose to delete older saves. Spaces? Why? Full screen iChat? I don't like to talk on the phone let alone see someone on my screen and have them see me, yuck. So in a word, yuck!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Needs more kinks worked out
Comment: Leopard still has a number of bugs which can be limiting in its use compared to the very stable and bug free 10.4. Wish I had waited. So frustrating to go from trouble free to a number of issues which limit my computer use and are difficult if not possible at this time to resolve with Apple.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great OS (though X11 is messed up)
Comment: Like Tiger before it, Leopard is worth every penny. Time machine works seamlessly (if you don't make the same mistake I did and use a LaCie drive for backup - it will fail sooner rather than later). Most new features are excellent. Unfortunately, the new X11 that ships with Leopard is badly messed up (at least when I installed it a while ago). Luckily, you can download the latest build from http://xquartz.macosforge.org is you need to use X11 professionally. Overall, Leopard is great and worth the upgrade!
Customer Rating:
Summary: upgrading
Comment: buying Leopard was easy. saved a little money too, so that's always nice. upgrading to Leopard... why does it have to take up so much memory!!!! it's not that different enough from my old OS, but takes up so many Gigs! i was on 10.2 before the upgrade. oh well, it's done now.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Finder windows problems
Comment: My work requires me to set up folders that hold hundreds and sometimes thousands of archived files. Therefore, I always use the simple list mode to scroll up and down in a narrow Finder window and open folders in the same window and without the need to having a sidebar, I never used the sidebar before anyway. something which worked great with Tiger.
When I upgraded to Leopard I couldn't have the simple list Finder window anymore. I found that in order to do that, I need to get a rid of the sidebar by clicking on the oval top right button on the Finder window which also get a rid of the top menu which includes the "back" and "forward" arrow buttons that are essential to going back and forth between folders. Although the arrow buttons can be substituted by activating the Path Bar at the bottom of the window by checking "Show Path Bar" in the "View" pulldown menu in top of the screen, which I don't find as fast and easy to use as the arrow buttons. I also shockingly found out that when I get a rid of the sidebar (and the top menu), folders always open in a new window no matter what, even if the "Always open folders in a new window" left unchecked in the "Finder" pull down menu in the top left corner of the screen.
So now I'm stuck with having to have the useless sidebar that takes much room on my little 15.4 screen of my MacBook Pro in every window I open in order just to make folders open in the same window.
The other thing is that Leopard does not memorize the Finder's window settings and location, I must go through resetting my windows to my specifications every time.
This may sounds like a simple issue but it is a very important one because most of us use the same window settings from start to end, we rarely change to different settings or location.
Apple, I hope you issue correction to this important problem soon.
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