Leopard: Is it worth the upgrade?
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Don Reisinger tackles Mac OS X Leopard and helps you decide if an upgrade is in order.  And while he can't stand "early and often" OS upgrades, his final recommendation may surprise you.
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Unsanity Apple support drones are getting an earful from Mac users who are getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death while trying to update to the latest and greatest version of OS X. This thread on an official Apple support forum has more than 200 posts left in 25 hours at time of writing. A large percentage of the writers report getting a persistent blue screen that forces them to abort their installation of Leopard.â¦
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&#147;The Macintosh, with its OS X operating system, is rock solid,&#148; writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal. &#147;It is elegant, and &#151; when you do a feature-by-feature price comparison with Windows competitors &#151; it&#146;s surprisingly affordable.&#148; [Dec 09]
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Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, is in the house. We've installed it and run it around the block a few times. It's pretty, it's fast, it's ready to rock your Mac.
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Apple's Mac OS X Leopard introduces lots of tiny visual enhancements as well as some usability advancements beyond the Tiger defaults. But changes are not automatically improvements. If you're underwhelmed by your new OS's upgraded user interface, or you just want your good friend Tiger back, Wired's How To Wiki can help you tweak and customize Leopard. But it's incomplete. Please help us fill in the blanks and create a wiki  that gets people what they want: a better Leopard.
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The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and Apple takes another move, with news that Apple's new Leopard operating system has already been successfully installed on Windows PCs.The OSx86 Scene forum has released details of how Windows users can migrate to Apple's new OS, without investing in new hardware -- even though installing Leopard on a PC may be counter to Apple's terms and conditions.The forum is offering full instructions on how to install the system, including screenshots of the installation process.Not all the features of Leopard function with the patch -- Wi-Fi support, for example, is reportedly inoperable. Historically, Apple's likely next move will be to track down and act against those behind the hack.The move to make Leopard work on a PC is just the latest in Apple's continual struggle with the hacker community.Also this weekend, a crew of hackers unleased Jailbreak Me, an online service that iPod Touch and iPhone users can navigate to in order to break into these devices in order to install applications on them.Apple has encountered similar trials each time it releases a new version of its operating system, as PC-using hackers want the OS, but not necessarily the Mac.Apple as yet hasn't allowed virtualization software developers to create ways in which Mac OS X can be run on an Intel-based Windows machine, though this weekend's Leopard news shows it's possible.
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âWith Leopard, Appleâs operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically,â states Ed Baig . Baig âmigrated to Leopardâ from Tiger âwithout pain on a MacBook laptop and my own iMac desktop; thereâs mercifully none of the software driver and other hassles associated with a Windows operating system upgrade.â Calling Leopard âone cool cat,â Baig praises Time Machine with its automatic backup and effortless file retrieval; the new videoconferencing features in iChat Theater; stationery, notes and To Do options in Mail; Cover Flow, Spaces, Stacks, and the ability to âhighlight and copy any portion of a Web page inside the Safari browser and turn it into a live Dashboard widget.â
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Apple Inc.'s Spotlight does more than just shine a light on files you can't find on your Mac. And with the release of Mac OS X Leopard later this year, it's going to allow you to do a lot more than just search. Columnist Ryan Faas explains.
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With Leopard's arrival later today, Apple's delivered five major upgrades to Mac OS X in six years, showing that small morsels can be more satisfying than biting off more than you can chew.
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In his latest post, Jeff Moore talks about a much needed upgrade to a popular operation system (the Leopard version of Mac OS X) and something that it brought with it as a default - a version 5 installation of PHP (5.2.4 in fact).   His post is a guide to setting up a development environment on your newly upgraded system. He's broken it up into quite a few steps:   Enable Developer Tools Editing Configuration Files Enabling PHP Starting Apache Visiting our Web Site Showing the World Enabling a Personal Website Virtual Hosting Sharing with the World, Part II Installing MySQL Bring the mysql.sock to PHP Where is PEAR? PHP .ini configuration   Don't worry, each of the sections in the list don't have much more than one or two paragraphs under them and they're loaded with links to help you through some of the more detailed points.
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First a little background. I stopped using a Mac in 1997, as Apple was transitioning to the new operating system. I started using the Mac again as my primary OS in late 2005, a little more than two years ago. This is the first new version of the OS to come out since I switched back. Based on a tour of the new features, pretty late at the end of a long week, it's safe to say an OS is still just an OS, the purpose of the OS is to stay out of your way until you need it. Leopard may be prettier than the last version, I'm not sure it is or isn't. Not sure I'll use many of the new features. For people who hadn't used VNC before, "screen sharing" would certainly be a big new feature if they're working in a networked enviroment. And maybe the new backup code will fit into my routine. I have some ideas about that. (Maybe I'll just have one computer on my LAN that is backed up and copy things there if I want them backed up.) File sharing is more convenient in Leopard, the shared computers are listed in every Finder window, and this is good. FInding the disks that are available on each of these computers is one step easier too.  The Preferences applicaiton appears largely unchanged, except the Networking section where a lot of functionality seems to be missing. I have to look at this more closely. The Download stack is lost on me since I don't use Safari or Apple's mail app. I would find it useful if Firefox had a similar feature (but they kind of do, I can direct all downloads to a specific folder). All in all, changes to an OS aren't that important. The action is in the apps, and for me, just a couple of primary ones, the web browser and my integrated writing and programming environment. It's been quite a while since there have been meaningful improvements to either, and those improvements would end up meaning a lot more to me than improvements to the OS. There isn't much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn't already been done.  Net-net, my first impression of Leopard is that it isn't a big deal one way or the other.  PS: I wonder if the next version of the OS will be called Leonard, to honor Leonard Rosenthal, a famous Mac developer in the 80s and 90s.
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Troy Dreier  gives Leopard 4.5 stars (out of five). Praising Time Machine, he predicts that âLeopard will be remembered as the OS that debuted Time Machine, the backup tool that changes everything.â Equally positive about Cover Flow, Quick Look, Spaces, Mail, Boot Camp, and iChat, Dreier concludes that âLeopard is worth the price for Time Machine alone, but the sheer variety of improvements and innovation inside this OS give you much more than your moneyâs worth.â
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These are the major Leopard stories as reported by Macworld, PCWorld and wire services
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New builds of Mac OS X version 10.4 have been seeded to a select group of developers, according to a report by AppleInsider. The new operating system, code-named "Tiger," is currently being tested by Apple's elite and the development builds feature Jabber support in iChat, as well as extended RSS support in Safari 2.0. Many changes in development release have appeared since Tiger's debut at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in June.
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Mac users upgrading to Leopard will find a refinedd and improved Spotlight search feature, as our Macworld colleague explains.
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One of the new features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is called Spaces. Columnist Ryan Faas takes a look at what the virtual desktop technology will offer Mac users once it becomes available in 2007.
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In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard, Edward Mendelson  maintains that Leopard is âby far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value.â Mendelson âfound Leopard to be startlingly fast, brilliantly streamlined, and packed with conveniences and innovations. Leopardâs rich set of built-in software runs faster than I imagined possible.â