Mac Users Of Mtc (apple: Go Ahead, Take A Bite!)

[artvader]

Hmmm... I'm sensing a pattern here somewhere... when something goes wrong with the Mac... it's always the user's fault. If something bad happens to the PC, it's always the OS's fault...

[fry]

Have you actually used Leopard?

 

Or are you aping what you have read somewhere? Or are you just forming an opinion based on perception?

 

Ah, no let me guess... you are omniscient.

 

I spent an entire afternoon in the 5th Ave Apple store trying out Leopard yesterday. Yes, one afternoon is enough time to try out the new things Leopard has to offer as there are not that many to begin with! I didn't see anything in there that'd necessitate me to part with $130. I'm gonna wait till OS11 thank you. Apple has ran out of kittie names, what's next? Liger?

[artvader]

Peer Review: Leopard's secret flaws revealed!

 

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Have you heard? Mac's newest OS, Leopard, hit stores on Friday. It's the biggest product launch since Apple's last product launch, and so far Leopard has garnered the same swooning reviews the press so frequently gives Apple products. Putting together a decent round-up of opinions about a system upgrade that has as many features as Leopard (300) is nearly as difficult as rounding up all the absurd cat and spot wordplay from the reviews' headlines (Leopard is an upgrade that roars is a typical example).

 

But universal approbation is so boring. We know that the system comes with Time Machine (a.k.a the best automated back up system ever), a new, improved (pre-installed!) Bootcamp, a prettier Finder, better parental controls, blah, blah, blah. Call us grumpy, but we've mined the reviews for any criticisms we could find of the system, and put them all in one place. Check them out after the jump.

 

.Mac remote has firewall glitches

"I was able to use [back to My Mac] at times but also ran into snags trying to remotely connect from a computer in a hotel and from USA TODAY offices in Virginia to a Mac in New Jersey." — Edward C. Baig, USA Today

 

See through menus make no sense

"The most serious misstep in Leopard is its new see-through menus. When the menu commands— Save As, Page Preview, whatever — are superimposed on the text of whatever document is behind them, they’re much harder to read"— David Pogue, The New York Times

 

Time Machine is a Mac (and Leopard) snob

"While Time Machine can perform backups over a network, the backup destination can only be a hard disk connected to a Mac running Leopard." — Walter Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal

 

We like Spaces, just one tiny caveat

"[spaces] can get a bit confusing at times"— Stuart Miles, The Times (UK)

 

Time Machine can get testy when you first use it

"If Time Machine hasn’t made a backup yet to visit, clicking the Time Machine button completely borks OSX…least it did for me. I took me a number of restarts and some serious banging of the keyboard (no CTRL+ALT+DELETE on a Mac) to fix it."— Duncan Riley, at That porn you tried to erase? Time Machine keeps it forever

"Time Machine has a serious problem: there is no way (that I can find) to remove a file from a Time Machine backup. This is a pretty glaring omission... people who are thriftier than I would probably do better to hold off on [purchasing] this update." — Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review

 

Stacks: not so useful

"The Dock's new Stacks feature is a mess, replacing a utilitarian approach to stashing folders in the Dock (click to open the folder, click and hold to see a list of the folder's contents) with a snazzy but generally less useful pop-up window" — Jason Snell, PC World

 

Plus, this statement isn't critical, but we think it's a major Leopard flaw

"If you're still running Mac "Classic" OS apps, forget it. Leopard drops support for what was once Mac OS 9." — Ken Mingis and Michael DeAgonia, Computer World

 

Just so you don't get the wrong idea: though we've printed criticisms here (albeit minor ones), the reviews from which we quoted were all positive. We had to mine each glowing article to find them. And according to some sources, the system is completely flawless. Take this review from The Dallas Morning News, for example.

 

What do you think? Have you already spent the $129, or are you waiting for 10.5.1?

 

— S.E. Kramer

 

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/1...leo_1.html#more

[boomouse]

Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse

[boomouse]

Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse

[artvader]

Well as I said: there are some people who just think Apple is simply infallible in whatever they do...

 

Judging from the way you've made your reply (with frequent stabs at the commentators themselves), I'd say you're a fanatic and I guess if Apple would go and sell you a solar-powered flashlight, you'd still defend it to no end and say that it's pure genius...

 

C'mon, when a good word about the Mac comes from a site called macobserver.com, you say that they're very respectable... but when Mac critics from the New York Times, Computer World and other publications make their own opinions and observations known, you say they're trash and you go on accusing them of being Windows users who have no business handling a mac. I think that's called generalization.

 

BTW, I've been reading the apple forums and apparently there are a lot of people getting a Blue Screen of Death after freshly installing the Leopard upgrade. I guess the BSOD isn't an exclusive MS problem after all. Wait lemme guess: it's the user's fault.

Edited October 29, 2007 by artvader

[boomouse]

Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse

[gmtulis]

I have one inquiry to the leopard..can i just upgrade my current os so i wouldn't loose any files? or should i back-up all my files and freshly install leopard?

[boomouse]

Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse

[gmtulis]

damn..sakit sa hd space ah...

another thing...does leopard now read and write ntfs?

and i have to find all my installers again..huhu..

 

oh..pahabol..

i have a problem using ntfs in tiger..

it wouldn't mount .. tried disk utility it wouldn't mount

[boomouse]

Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse

[citriX]

bought my macbook pro last month, gabi gabi na akong puyat :thumbsupsmiley:

[us_good]

kainis bakit di sinama ng leopard ang support for java 6

[us_good]

Apple ships Leopard without Java 6

 

Article

 

from article:

The move to ship Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) without Java 6 is a significant sign of Sun blowing its opportunity with Java development. I wrote about this at the Apple iPhone introduction. For all of Jonathan Schwartz's talk about the opportunity for Java on mobile devices, there is no Java on iPhone. iPhone is a gated community and Java is on the outside.

 

That leaves Java developers in a bad position. Java developers love the clean Unix-based Mac OS X environment for development. But we have been suffering with an unstable developer-only dont-run-this-in-production release of Java 6 for the past year. Mac OS X is now the getto for Java 6

 

Details on Leopard and DTrace are found here

 

The Mac OS X developer center for Java is found here.

[boomouse]

Edited June 25, 2008 by boomouse