Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
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Software Reviews of Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
Customer Review: A question
Summary: 5 Stars
I would like to know if somebody can help me. I bought an Apple MacBook Pro MC118LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop and it cames with Snow Leopard Operation System. I have a program that doesn't go with this OS. What I want to know is if I buy the OS Leopard, an older version, can I install in this Mac book?Customer Review: No Issues
Summary: 5 Stars
It installed with no issues and I love the new look and feel. It seems like it runs much faster, too.Customer Review: MAC OS X 10.5.6 for PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz
Summary: 4 Stars
Received and installed without issues, however mailboxes were empty.
Called Apple and found this was an old revision, updated to 10.5.8. Still no mail archive.
Apple led me thru aprocess that recovered the data, which was sleeping in the library.
The folks at Apple were very patient and helpful. My computer is now working great although the battery seemed to run down faster (went from ~2 hrs to 1 hr). I have a 5 year old machine and so purchased new battery that has noticeably longer life (2.5+ hrs).
Customer Review: Great O.S. update
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the absolute best price for an operating system. I don't think it would be such a great product if it cost the same as a regular operating system. The install was trouble free. I am using it on a modbook by axiotron, so I was a little nervous at first. It turns out that there is nothing to worry about.If you have a macbook or another type of intel mac I recommend this purchase, but only the 29 dollar upgrade. It is not very cost effective for over one hundred dollars in that situation justget a new mac and the new o.s. is included for free.Customer Review: Very Good System, Even For PPC
Summary: 5 Stars
Sept. 10th, 2009
It's clear that my 10.5 Leopard will be the newest OS my PowerBook will ever run, and I thought I may as well write a (long overdue) review of Leopard, which I've been running for nearly a year now.
By the time I upgraded to Leopard, my PowerBook had been running extremely fast under Tiger 10.4, with my RAM recently upped to 2.0GB. When I initially "upgraded" to 10.5.6, I suddenly found that my system seemed MUCH slower. Patches had to be installed in order to use Final Cut Express 3.5 (upgraded to 3.5.1). Overall responsiveness was lacking.
But I did notice the good things: vastly improved Mail functions, interactivity between Mail, Address Book, Safari, iCal, etc. MUCH better interface than any previous version of the Mac OS (or any OS, really). And the best improvement (if you have one of the multi-touch machines, as I do): "right-click" is enabled under Leopard. This is achieved with two fingers on the touchpad combined with a click.
By the time of the 10.5.7 update, the PowerBook ran as fast if not faster than it did under Tiger. Some apps launch faster, even. As of this writing, I run 10.5.8 on the larger partition of a Tiger/Leopard system. Leopard runs better & looks better than Tiger (even though I expected Tiger to at least feel "snappier"). I use Tiger for "Classic" applications, even though it's rare.
Only gripe with Leopard: I think it's a "cover-flow" issue under Finder, but if there's "media" in a folder, and my iTunes NAS drive is not mounted, I get a staggering number of error messages explaining as much. Solution: keep a "dummy" iTunes folder in Documents, then replace it under "Music" when I'm out. No problems, except that it was a non-issue in Tiger.
Still, Leopard is terrific, even for the later PowerPC machines.