[Chris Maynard]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaveF

Can you expand on that?

Enable Spaces. Assign different apps to different Spaces. Go to one of your Spaces. Launch Time Machine. Watch it get confused on which Spaces it should be displaying. Users have experienced total lock ups doing this.

[Chris Maynard]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carlo Medina

Dear Leopard Owners:

Does the final (I'm assuming) build of Safari 3 bundled with Leopard address the various problems that Safari 3 beta users have been having with HTF? Specifically the ability to use the back button?

Thanks!

The back button works, thread originator is back. Those are the two problems I was aware of.

[Daryl L]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew Pratt

I had the logitech software installed for the MX510 I use with my MBP though I did a full wipe and reinstall. I then applied the logitech software in leo and everything appears to work fine.

Thanks for the info Andrew. I think I'm gonna drop LCC and use SteerMouse from now on. I uninstalled LCC and installed Steermouse and it's works great with my Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball. And Steermouse supports Leopard. Uninstalling LCC left APE behind so I downloaded Application Enhancer and used it's Uninstall option to uninstall APE without needing to restart in single user mode to do it manually.

[Ronald Epstein]

I'm interested to hear if anyone is experiencing slowdowns
on a standard Macbook with 1GB memory.

A friend at work installed Leopard on his Macbook and is
telling me he feels the Internet seems slower to him now,
which makes me think the OS is taxing his memory and that
the Mac is processing pages more slower.

I wanted to recommend Leopard to another person at work
also with a 1GB Macbook, but want to hear other experiences
before doing so.

[Joe Casey]

I did a clean install on a core 2 duo black Macbook with 2 gig of ram. If anything, everything seems a little quicker. Have them check System Memory in the Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder). As I type, with Firefox, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, and Activity Monitor running with Spaces (in addition to a host of other processes), I'm using 589 MB of physical memory of which only 328 MB is active.

[DaveF]

I don't know the link off hand, but a review noted that Leopard felt snappier with less memory than Tiger -- that is, 1GB did better with 10.5 than with 10.4, and even 512 MB was tolerable.

But, there are so many quirks and variables, that your friend just might have the right configuration that gets a tad pokier with Leopard even though it's faster for most.

[DaveF]

Just installed Leopard; a trouble-free affair.

Last night I used SuperDuper! to make a bootable copy of the hard drive and verified it was bootable. That in place, I was ready to go at this morning with the default Upgrade option.

I did the default Leopard install (except for removing 1GB of printer drivers I don't need). I left it running to make breakfast. I returned an hour later and it was done, waiting for me to watch the intro movie and restart to accept the newest updates.

Ten minutes in and all is well. Initial, surface- level impressions, alas, are negative. The translucent menu bar is distraction. I'm not keen on the new side dock; I don't like the current trend to translucent black "HUD" interfaces. Likewise the new system folders: gray on gray? NeXT knew that was the wrong way when they moved from gray scale to color back in '92.

But things are running well so far. Mail had no troubles with my account. Firefox is fine. A quick peek at Stacks suggests a useful tool; albeit hindered by the stupid auto-icon creation method. iTunes is updating my PodCast subscriptions.

So, lets see how this goes. And then, maybe next week, upgrade my wifes dual-G5 machine.

Huzzah! Arrange by Kind in Column View. Worth the $129 for that alone!

A couple more comments, then I'm off to mow the lawn

New Logitech drivers for my MX Revolution work. No troubles at all, and my Tiger settings work in Leopard. I've not looked to see if functionality that didn't work in Tiger has been fixed for Leopard.

Love the Movie listings Dashboard Widget!

[Ronald Epstein]

Dave,

Good to see you are up and running.

I am underwhelmed by the Leopard experience. It has a few
nice enhancements under the hood, but other than that, it's nothing
revolutionary. Really, Apple's promos made the OS look far better
in the long run. Still much better than Vista, though.

Leopard is making my Macbook Pro crash. It happens whenever I
put it in sleep mode. Once it is awoken and I go into programs, the
system crashes. I am not too worried about it since I am certain
Apple is going to be working the bugs out of this software very quickly.

[Aaron Reynolds]

My wife's 2.0 white MacBook (the old mid-level one with a gig of RAM) is about the same, maybe a bit faster -- the biggest gain is that my crazyquilt wireless network doesn't lock up the Finder anymore when a device drops off of it. Hooray!

But my old dual 867 G4 is a revelation -- it's significantly faster. I was thinking that it was the end of the line for the ol' warhorse, but now I think I can get another year or two out of her. I'm putting iLife and iWork '08 on her next, and we'll see how they run.

I ran into the Logitech upgrade problem -- stupid on my part, it took me until my install had failed to look down at my mouse and see that it was a Logitech. But I did an archive and install (which I should have done in the first place) and migrated my data back to it, and everything is good.

[DaveF]

Ron, I sympathize with your underwhelming sense of Leopard -- and bummed to hear your MBP has Leopard problems. I understand Leopard is largely an "infrastructure" change, and the UI changes were mostly modest and in several cases wrong-headed.

Despite the modest visual changes from Tiger, I think Leopard is the "Switcher's" OS. My gut sense a year ago to go Mac with Leopard was correct; just it was delayed four months past my must-buy date .

The Finder is a robust system with good polish added. QuickLook is great. To my amazement, CoverFlow is useful! Spotlight kills; fast enough to be an app launcher. BootCamp is official. And with Parallels and Fusion one-upping each other, switching is ever easier and affordable. And key bugs were fixed: Aaron's comment on the Finder not beach balling is spot on.

Hopefully bug fixes will come out in short order to help the early adopters. And hopefully we can get fixes for the stupid UI changes.

[Andrew Pratt]

Ron a lot of the cool things that we'll see in future 10.5.X will come as a result of the fundamental changes that occured under the hood in Leopard. For me the boost in speed, Quick Look, Time Machine and Stacks are reason to upgrade alone so I'm happy. If it ain't broke don't change it

As for your MacBook Pro did you do an upgrade or a clean wipe and install? I did a wipe and install on mine and it has zero issues with sleep mode etc.

[Yumbo]

Doesn't work with Filemaker Server 6.