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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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 Buggy, but yeahSubmitted by sciamachy on January 3, 2008 - 9:00am.
I'd go for it - there's at least one "killer app" that works only on Leopard & gives sufficient functionality to consider it. Bento, from the Filemaker guys, is a seriously non-power-userish take on the database management system. It uses hooks that are only present in Leopard to pull in data from Address Book & iCal so you can mash these up as you wish. It's not for people who like to write SQL queries, but it's so intuitive for people who want a no-frills domestic/hobbyist database that does the job & looks gorgeous while it does it. (That said, I'm a MySQL user myself but I can so see the need for a DBMS that's simpler to use than MS Access) » POSTED IN:
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