The one critique I've found... | Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard

Overrated applications, great iphoto remake, keep the old version of imovie. Nothing special. | Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard

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	• Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard Mac OS X, Macintosh \| Apple, 2007 average customer review:based on 380 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

First Time Mac User Loves It

First let me say that my iMac 20" was only my second ever apple purchase. I'm a former PC gamer and hardcore PC guy who has given up on Microsoft.

I've used everything from FreeBSD & Linux to Windows XP/Vista and this is the most stable consumer based operating system. The OS loads very quick and the integration with iTunes & Safari is wonderful.

The one critique I've found...

Leopard is a good upgrade from Tiger, though a little expensive. Benefits include improved page movement tracking in Safari, added notes and to-dos in Mail, and enhanced flexibility combined with easier setup in networking shared computers on a LAN. Leopard also enables Mac Pro owners to use the new high-speed NVidia 8800 GT video card so we can finally play video games as well as our PC-owning cousins do.

Unfortunately, for people with font management tools such as Suitcase, Leopard also comes with a big headache: cumbersome font management within the system. What used to work well with a 500-plus font collection now is broken so much that I cannot use any of my postscript fonts without constant error popups. Every time I activate a font in my manager (Suitcase Fusion X), I'm told it conflicts with some Apple System font. Of course there's no duplicate of the particular font in the Apple list, but it certainly prevents me from using fonts I need to work on my old documents. For a graphics person this would be supremely frustrating.

Apple and third parties have written about this issue and there are workarounds, but it's much more a pain in the butt than in previous versions of Mac OS X. If you work with type, you MUST plan out how to migrate your type collection over to Leopard before upgrading your Mac or you'll immediately be unable to access your type library to do your work.

I do think that Apple should have better prepared for this before releasing the product to the professional community, and I am certainly unhappy that I have to do the heavy lifting to get my work environment back to a functional level.

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Overrated applications, great iphoto remake, keep the old version of imovie. Nothing special.

I have been an avid Apple/Nintendo fan for a long time buying every product they come out with. Ipods, Imacs, and software. If I could I would go back to my Tiger because my external Harddrive is too small for me to get the benefits of Time Machine and if you buy a big external HD, they don't last as long as smaller ones. Second, the applications they added were no better as they hyped it up to be. The new photobooth stuff always come in choppy for me when I am in the ocean, or at the beach. My eyes are scratched out. The .Mac updates are great, and the Iphoto works wonderfully and I love the new events and a great way to better organize your pictures. The new imovie makes it impossible to edit/fade, and move around audio/pictures and video as it did in the last version. Front row is perhaps the only thing I love about leapord. Coverflow is the best thing in leapord and I love showing off my album artwork with a remote.

In the meantime I will wait for the next apple OS = Lions,Monkeys,Panda or maybe when they add the Beatles to Itunes they will have their new operating system Abbey Road.

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