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: 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.
Customer Review: I would like to but you haven't shipped yet
Summary: 1 Stars
It seems to me that your web site (Amazon) should get in sync with your shipping department and estimated delivery date. I received your email asking me to review my purchase of Snow Leopard today Sept 4th. This is the current status
Items shipped on September 3, 2009 (Actually the USPS is still waiting for it)
Delivery estimate: September 10, 2009
Seems a big disconnect!
Customer Review: Great Features, Unstable Performance
Summary: 3 Stars
For a UNIX based OS, Leopard has shown me less stability than Tiger and than other high-end UNIX OS's such as PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu. I remember using Tiger for 2 yrs. before it crashed on me; Leopard took just a few days and regularly crashes critical applications (Safari, Mail, and MS Office are the usual culprits); and the OS itself takes a dive every so often too. It's surprising behavior for OS X, given my previous experience with Panther and Tiger. Nevertheless, for features and ease of use it can't be matched; and it remains the safe choice for virus-free, malware-free computing and web browsing.
The big problem with Apple remains its paranoid defense of its proprietary territory and what I call "death by a thousand charges" -- $80 every two years or so for updates to iLife, iWork if you have it; the annual charges for the pathetic MobileMe; and the fee to get yourself to the front of the line at their genius bars. Apple was once distinguished by a community spirit, top-shelf customer service, and a departure from the corporate mob. Today, Linux is home to those virtues and Apple plays in the same moneyed muck as M$, and it shows in the quality of their products, which steadily declines with time and greed.