I have upgraded all 5 of our Macs to Leopard and so far no Kernel Panics.
Apart for some minor niggles and Safari unexpectedly quitting occasionally pre 10.5.1 My Leopard upgrade has been a great experience. Everything seems a little nicer. Quicklook is great. Stacks make great program launchers, the new finder is not perfect but a lot better, Time machine rocks, Mail is way better. Underlying stuff like Core animation make me drool when I think of the cool apps that will come out using it.
However, I agree, Leopard is not perfect but compared to many of my friends experiences with Vista it's a dream. And it came out in 18 months rather than 5 years and most of it's issues are fixed already. What do you expect from Apple for god sake? They are human beings with flaws like anyone but at least their motivation is to create the best products.
All this rubbish about how hard it is for MS to support multiple configurations is pathetic. Apple also have to support legacy hardware within the same binary. They have to have their OS as a universal binary that will support Intel/PowerPC, 32 Bit and 64 bit all native. They have also delivered new core technologies for developers to take advantage of and achieved UNIX 03 certification. Microsoft just want to stop you from pirating their stuff and are kissing up to media vendors by building in DRM to the core of their OS. They give you 32 bit versions of Vista and separate 64 bit versions. basically Microsoft deliver one OS for each processor configuration. Not very clever in my opinion! Apple also have third party hardware to think about. Peripherals for one, 3rd party video cards, different memory manufacturers and types, different hard drive manufacturers etc etc. You can also buy 3rd party ethernet cards to fit in Mac Pros. The only thing Apple don't have to support is 3rd party motherboards but I am sure that most motherboards are virtually the same on PC's they can't be that different surely!!!
As for Mac bashing and Linux bashing for that matter well it's people that bash these vendors with lower market share than Micro$oft that truly need to think about what they are saying. It's these thoughtless people that are and have been holding back the progress of computer technology and the internet for years by supporting a monopoly. If Windows, OS X and Linux all had similar market shares we would finally see a ton of innovation from the computer OS competitors. We see it in Processor manufacturers, we see it in computer hardware makers but within the OS industry In reality we see innovation from Apple, we see it from Linux vendors but we don't really see it from Microsoft. Why? because they have their virtual monopoly so why should they bother. What's in it for them? They already own the most desktop PC's. It's in the best interest of Windows users to increase Apple and Linux market share. Only then will they see true innovation from Microsoft for their personal choice of OS products.
Why don't any of you Mac bashers think this way? You're so narrow minded!!!
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I have upgraded all 5 of our Macs to Leopard and so far no Kernel Panics. Apart for some minor niggles and Safari unexpectedly quitting occasionally pre 10.5.1 My Leopard upgrade has been a great experience. Everything seems a little nicer. Quicklook is great. Stacks make great program launchers, the new finder is not perfect but a lot better, Time machine rocks, Mail is way better. Underlying stuff like Core animation make me drool when I think of the cool apps that will come out using it. However, I agree, Leopard is not perfect but compared to many of my friends experiences with Vista it's a dream. And it came out in 18 months rather than 5 years and most of it's issues are fixed already. What do you expect from Apple for god sake? They are human beings with flaws like anyone but at least their motivation is to create the best products. All this rubbish about how hard it is for MS to support multiple configurations is pathetic. Apple also have to support legacy hardware within the same binary. They have to have their OS as a universal binary that will support Intel/PowerPC, 32 Bit and 64 bit all native. They have also delivered new core technologies for developers to take advantage of and achieved UNIX 03 certification. Microsoft just want to stop you from pirating their stuff and are kissing up to media vendors by building in DRM to the core of their OS. They give you 32 bit versions of Vista and separate 64 bit versions. basically Microsoft deliver one OS for each processor configuration. Not very clever in my opinion! Apple also have third party hardware to think about. Peripherals for one, 3rd party video cards, different memory manufacturers and types, different hard drive manufacturers etc etc. You can also buy 3rd party ethernet cards to fit in Mac Pros. The only thing Apple don't have to support is 3rd party motherboards but I am sure that most motherboards are virtually the same on PC's they can't be that different surely!!! As for Mac bashing and Linux bashing for that matter well it's people that bash these vendors with lower market share than Micro$oft that truly need to think about what they are saying. It's these thoughtless people that are and have been holding back the progress of computer technology and the internet for years by supporting a monopoly. If Windows, OS X and Linux all had similar market shares we would finally see a ton of innovation from the computer OS competitors. We see it in Processor manufacturers, we see it in computer hardware makers but within the OS industry In reality we see innovation from Apple, we see it from Linux vendors but we don't really see it from Microsoft. Why? because they have their virtual monopoly so why should they bother. What's in it for them? They already own the most desktop PC's. It's in the best interest of Windows users to increase Apple and Linux market share. Only then will they see true innovation from Microsoft for their personal choice of OS products. Why don't any of you Mac bashers think this way? You're so narrow minded!!!