Recently Apple released their new Mac OS X version 10.5, Leopard. Of course, as a geek, I rushed to install it. My feelings are mixed with love and hate.
After running the OS for 2 weeks or so, I’ve compiled to love n’ hate lists.
I love:
- The new finder, absolutely marvelous
- Time machine, truly remarkable
- The new Safari is blazing fast
- On my Mac Mini (Core 2 Duo) it feels snappier. Same speed on my MacBook Pro tho (Core Duo)
- Spaces and Dock Stacks!
- The new System Preferences has improved a lot
I hate:
- Safari keeps crashing on some websites
- Pubsubagent keeps crashing
- Time machine doesn’t support network drives
- The new dock look isn’t that nice
Conclusion: Leopard delivers a bunch of improvements and handful of new features. I believe its worth upgrading to Leopard, tho not a must. Although, no matter how shiny a new release is, always wait for the first point (10.5.1) release to replace your primary OS.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I think that you can enable network drives for Time machine by hitting
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
But I haven’t tried myself yet.
November 10th, 2007 at 3:20 am
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November 10th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Thanks for the tip! I’ve posted an article for this!
December 6th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
So, is the upgrade worth it?
How smooth was yours? (if it actually was an upgrade)
What’s your startup time? For some reason Tiger needs quite some time to boot on my MBP. Linux though does not:P
Have you used Firefox/Thunderbird with .5 ? Is it as slow with the new os as with the old one?
Cheers
December 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Well, overall yes.
On my mac-mini, which is Core 2 Duo, the systems seems to be a lot more responsive than Tiger.
On my Macbook pro and my macbook the performance is the same, I didn’t notice any differences.
Boot-times are always <1 min to desktop. I have never used Linux on any of my Macs, so I wouldn’t know.
No differences on Firefox. I don’t use Thunderbird. Firefox 3, however, is a lot of faster, but thats something that has to do with Firefox, not the OS.
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 am
Likewise,
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass 1
should fix the dock