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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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 Bugs Aren't the IssueSubmitted by Wild Rye on October 27, 2007 - 1:41pm.
I think a casual user will find a lot to love in Leopard. I haven't had any problems with bugginess or instability. The big downside comes if you have a lot of legacy apps that you depend on--some of these are going to break. And various vendors don't have fixes in yet. I will say that I'm disappointed in the implementation of Mail 3.0. I blogged my first impressions of GTD with Leopard here: http://wildrye.com/?p=350 The good news is that a lot of legacy apps still run-- Office X runs, InDesign 2.0 runs, Quicksilver B51 runs. Now here's the bad news: Photoshop 7.0 is dead. Missing Sync just won't. iGTD and MailTags are apparently also not playing nice with Leopard. » POSTED IN:
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