Hi, do anyone here try out leopard? How is it, is it better then tiger....? Wat are the good things in it?

Been using OSX since Cheetah/Puma/Jaguar/Panther and Tiger and now Leopard since Beta stage during WWDC and officially bought it a week ago. My personal view after using it :

This OSX 10.5 getting improved with a little noticeably changes i.e : TimeMachine, Spaces, 3D dock with "Stack" function, PhotoBooth with Video recording function, the rest just minor changes which are not important for me. 300 features? -ahak just a hype I supposed as it still the same like TIGER. My verdict : For RM509 not that worth it. if you got extra money just upgrade it otherwise just KIV your intention. BTW, I would iterate that THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL VIEW.

This post has been edited by 76radius: Nov 5 2007, 10:51 PM

when u try mac os, u will never turn back to windows...ahak...

I fully agreed. Window is suck and buggy OS.

I've only started using Leopard, but I've had the same background otherwise wrt older OSX releases. I agree with 76radius, Leopard is not a must have upgrade. I'd rather get a new Mac preinstalled with it rather than getting it separately, it's really not worth the RM509.

Interestingly I still hold a fondness for Mac OS 9.2. If only I had today's apps on it. Snappy, fast, minus all the bling bling. Pity my old iBook's too old

That aside, Leopard was worthwhile for me. First and foremost, I need it for work purposes, and as an Cocoa Developer and Web developer, the development tools and command line tools update was worth it for me. I used to have to compile Apache2 by hand, it's now finally bundled with Apache2. Xcode 3 and Interface Builder 3 totally made some of my source code files completely redundant and sped up my dev time like mad.

And not to mention iChat with screensharing made collaborative work and troubleshooting easier. Had to help my other half with some Cocoa bindings, no way I can explain over IM, so screen-shared to show him step by step, and the next day, I had some php custom compile errors, he screenshared with me and fixed the problem - on top of that, the screensharing (which is basically remote desktop connection/vnc) also carries voice conferencing. So imagine while he was fixing the error, I can see everything he does on it and at the same time hear his explanations, which is really a nice touch.

Second was Spaces. I use a 12" PowerBook G4, screen real estate is sparse for me. I used to use DesktopManager (of which VirtueDesktops was later based on), but it had quirks that made the whole experience not very pleasant.

Third was the data detectors in Mail.app. I get a lot of events and seminar invitations, so it makes things easier for me to add them to my iCal.

But that being said, if you have nothing in particular to look forward to - if you're just a general user, you may not feel it as much. It would be fun for the first few discovery days/weeks, but after that, it's just another OS, unless there are things you're specifically looking forward for which is a major improvement.

I've always been underwhelmed by the decimal-point releases to OS X.

i.e. moving from 10.0 to 10.1 and now to 10.5.

It never really blew my socks away the way the move from OS 9 to OS X did. Then again, this IS a DECIMAL-point upgrade. It was never meant to be a radical departure from the preceeding OS.

I'd agree with the point that it is not a NECESSARY upgrade. But for me at least, it is definately worth RM509. But then again, as with everything in life, your mileage will undoubtedly vary....