OSX Leopard - just delivered

PearlJam said:
I just realised that Leopard is just like XP SP2, just an update of the OS, only thing is Microsoft doesn't rip R1k from its customers for an update!


/me runs and hides :D
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bwana said:
No they charge even more to downgrade from XP to Vista.

EDIT - the . upgrades are far more significant than the SP's.
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SP2 was more of a bugfix/security overhaul.
Apple would also make it free.

Did u pay to upgrade from win 98 to win 98 SE?
Or pay for windows ME?
 
Busy upgrading right now.... :)

The Installer did not detect my 2560 by 1600 display and the whole thing is
an ugly 1280 by 800 at 30 inches, anyway -there is 25 min remaining.... :)

*Hold's thumbs*

I hope I can get Front Row too, no remote though, but with the keyboard shortcut :).
 
Just got the one-with-unchanging-spots onto my G4! Went in without any hitch as an upgrade, and is very pretty. Going to make sure all my apps work now!
 
Where did you buy Leopard from ? There seems to be a delay locally. Did you source it overseas ?
 
Mmmmm.....Leopard.....shiny :D

And I haven't even opened the box yet.
 
bwana said:
Mmmmm.....Leopard.....shiny :D

And I haven't even opened the box yet.
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Great, let us know how you find it - bugs and all... I must say my installation is running muuuuch better since I did a clean install. Have not bothered with PShop again - I find it too bloated.. (like all Adobe products). Using Aperture now for PP.

I read they expecting the 10.5.1 'fix' out possibly this Friday.....
 
adsl3g said:
Great, let us know how you find it - bugs and all... I must say my installation is running muuuuch better since I did a clean install. Have not bothered with PShop again - I find it too bloated.. (like all Adobe products). Using Aperture now for PP.

I read they expecting the 10.5.1 'fix' out possibly this Friday.....
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Installed it on my mini without a glitch but thats just used as a media center primarily so nothing to report really.

Nipping out to get a fw enclosure so I can back up my primary machine before I do a clean install and then import all my stuff via migration assistant.

Aperture is great but sooner or later your going to want an image editor as well ;) Have you tried Acorn or Pixelmator? I'm curious as to how they run under leopard.
 
Bwana, did you manage to get the family pack from ZA Store? They said on Monday that it was still only going to be available next week??? Let me know how the Photoshop CS3 installation goes. Keen to know if I should wait a month or two before upgrading to Leopard.
 
bwana said:
Aperture is great but sooner or later your going to want an image editor as well ;) Have you tried Acorn or Pixelmator? I'm curious as to how they run under leopard.
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Actually tried both over the last few days - Pixelmator is extremely unresponsive and you have to click things multiple times before it is registered as a click - also, when I do any processing on the image, it is as if a dark layer covers the picture and you have to zoom in and out to get it back clearly, so I dumped it - not in the mood for cr@p like that...
I loaded Acorn but it was not on the machine long - just couldn't get a feel for it. I hear what you say about the image editing - in the interim I will have to use my Windows machine to do any image editing. Paintshop works for me... :D
 
Not gonna make any trolly comments but any of you guys and girls using Leopard machines online should read this:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/print/98120

Excerpt:"The Mac OS X Leopard firewall failed every test. It is not activated by default and, even when activated, it does not behave as expected. Network connections to non-authorised services can still be established and even under the most restrictive setting, "Block all incoming connections," it allows access to system services from the internet. Although the problems and peculiarities described here are not security vulnerabilities in the sense that they can be exploited to break into a Mac, Apple would be well advised to sort them out pronto.

Apple is showing here a casual attitude with regard to security questions which strongly recalls that of Microsoft four years ago. Back then Microsoft was supplying Windows XP with a firewall, which was, however, deactivated by default and was sometimes again deactivated when updates were installed. It was also the case that system services representing potential access points for malware were accessible via the internet interface by default. Despite years of warnings from security experts, the predominant attitude was that security must not get in the way of the great new networking functions.

Then along came worms such as Lovsan/Blaster and Sasser, which rapidly infected millions of Windows computers via security vulnerabilities in system services, causing millions worth of damage. Even today, an unpatched Windows system with no active firewall will be infected within a matter of minutes. However, Microsoft has since learnt its lesson -- a serviceable firewall, activated by default, has been included since Service Pack 2. With the standard configuration, no services are accessible from the internet on a Windows system."

...honestly not trying to stoke up a hornets nest, I just see people using terms like "under the hood" and wonder if they have then foggiest?

Tons of Windows users got burned in the period between XP and XPSP1/2 - forewarned is fore armed.
 
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