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Should a non-Power User buy Leopard or not?
Charles Kinney Walker | Oct 18 2007
I just jumped back on the Mac bandwagon this summer picking up a MacBook Pro... It's been a long time since I've owned a Mac, to be honest, they just cost too much to consider owning during my post undergrad years, and I managed to get by with crappy Dell laptops for the better part of 10+ years. My previous Macs were a Plus (with a whopping 20 meg external hd) and then a IIsi I overclocked with the crystal swap trick... My point here is OS X 10.4 is my first mac OS since 7.0... I'm only now sort of picking up the tricks for getting the most out of Tiger... Is Leopard really that amazing that I should pre-order it? I just have been out of the mac fold for so long that I just don't know enough about Leopard to know whether or not it's worth it for a user in my current position... Any thoughts??? Thanks in advance for your time. 5 Comments
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 Not right away...Submitted by MEP on October 19, 2007 - 3:13pm.
I don't personally think anybody should rush out and buy Leopard right away. It's going to be buggy and unstable until at least 10.5.4 (just like every other OS X release). I didn't upgrade to Tiger until almost 8 months after its release, and I'm not upgrading to Leopard until at least next year (probably). As far as the long term is concerned, I think you'll definitely want Leopard once the bugs settle down. Applications are going to start taking advantage of Leopard-only features in the Cocoa development libraries (some like Delicious Library already are, others like OmniFocus will in future versions). It really doesn't have anything to do with being a power user or not. Ask yourself what applications you use daily and whether or not they work better under the new version of OS X. If the answer is "yes", then you want Leopard. If the answer is "no", then you can wait a while. No matter what your answer is though, I strongly recommend waiting until the bug reports slow down and the new OS stabilizes, especially if you need your computer to function to get work done. OS X is better than Windows when it comes to bugs, but any new release of any new operating system is going to have its fair share of bumps in the road. By waiting a little longer, you can also benefit from the experience of others who have found all the new tricks and hacks before you instead of having to discover it all on your own. (I'm hoping someone releases a free program to fix the newly-uglified dock and that it will be ready before I upgrade.) » POSTED IN:
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