Mac OS X Leopard “better and faster than Vista”

[aryayush]

Mac OS X Leopard “better and faster than Vista”
“I’ve been testing Leopard,” reports Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and, “I believe it builds on Apple’s quality advantage over Windows. In my view, Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that make Macs even easier to use.” Among the more than 300 new features available in Leopard, Mossberg singles out as “marquee features” Time Machine, Cover Flow, and Quick Look.” And he was impressed that “every piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped Macs—a loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMac—worked fine, exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista.”

Leopard “hits all the right spots”
“With Leopard, Apple’s operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically,” states Ed Baig (usatoday.com). Baig “migrated to Leopard” from Tiger “without pain on a MacBook laptop and my own iMac desktop; there’s mercifully none of the software driver and other hassles associated with a Windows operating system upgrade.” Calling Leopard “one cool cat,” 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 “highlight and copy any portion of a Web page inside the Safari browser and turn it into a live Dashboard widget.”

Leopard unleashed
Writing for the Telegraph, Claudine Beaumont tells us that “Leopard is slick, shiny” and offers any number of features that deliver the “wow factor.” Like CoverFlow, which in Leopard allows “you to whiz through files and documents, with the album covers replaced by mini-thumbnails showing the front page of documents. You can hover over these thumbnails to scroll through multi-page documents; if it’s a movie file, you can even play the film clip in Finder.” Stacks “another useful addition to Leopard, is a virtual ‘stack’ of documents that lives in the dock area, giving you one-click access to files.” “For me,” Beaumont states, “the stand-out feature is Time Machine,” but she’s also impressed that with Boot Camp built-in, Leopard becomes “the first Apple operating system that will also allow you to install a Windows operating system alongside it.”

Lots of “new goodies in Leopard”
Mac OS X “Leopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots — and most of them are bright ones,” declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two “routine-changing” features. Time Machine, which offers “the shortest setup of any backup system in history.” And Quick Look, which lets you “view the contents of a document’s icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.” Pogue says “it’s fantastic.”

“Great”
That’s the one-word assessment Rob Griffiths (macworld.com) offers for Time Machine. “Perfect for nearly everyone,” Griffiths points out that “Time Machine attempts to turn the complex and sometimes confusing world of backup and restore into a simple, visual operation. Backing up is simple: attach a drive of sufficient capacity.” And when the fateful day arrives and you need to rescue documents from oblivion, “ you launch the Time Machine application—Apple has added a Time Machine icon to Leopard’s Dock—and simply move backward through time to find the files or folders you wish to restore.”

Mac OS X Leopard “fast and sleek”
After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly named—”It’s fast and sleek”—and concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X “gives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.” It offers “more than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,” and “a lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.” That includes iChat, which, he says, “got a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person you’re chatting with. You can also take over that friend’s desktop in case you’re diagnosing the machine from afar.”

“Using the computer more pleasurable” with Mac OS X Leopard
“The grace of Leopard’s interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update,” reports Elsa Wenzel (cnet.com). Awarding it an “Excellent 8 out of 10,” Wenzel maintains that Leopard not only “makes Macs more enticing than Tiger did,” but that it “makes it far easier to find documents and applications than Windows Vista. Leopard’s interface niceties made the daily mechanics of using the computer more pleasurable. Mundane chores, such as finding files and backing up data, become a visual treat.”

“Leopard leaps to new heights”
“What’s new in Leopard? A lot,” say Ken Mingis and Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com). The pair walk you through a 12-page analysis of the newest version of the Mac OS, spending time on many of the new features introduced in Leopard, including Stacks, Quick Look, Spaces, Time Machine, and numerous others. From Leopard’s “unified interface” to major under-the-hood changes, to wholly new apps, Leopard is a substantial, albeit evolutionary, advance for Mac OS X that builds on a solid foundation and adds a modicum of eye candy to reinforce the notion that this is something new and improved. It’s also fast — especially impressive given the new graphics sprinkled throughout the OS.”

Leopard “a pleasure to use”
Calling Leopard the “apple of my eye,” Dwight Sliverman (Houston Chronicle) tells us that as he’s played with the newest version of Mac OS X, “I’m constantly being surprised by smart, useful and convenient touches. It is a pleasure to use.” For example, he calls Spaces his “favorite Leopard feature, because it instantly multiplies your desktop real estate. Those who use portable computers will particularly appreciate it. On my MacBook it’s a godsend.”

Leopard makes “using a Mac both more productive and more fun”
Troy Dreier (laptopmag.com) gives Leopard 4.5 stars (out of five). Praising Time Machine, he predicts that “Leopard will be remembered as the OS that debuted Time Machine, the backup tool that changes everything.” Equally positive about Cover Flow, Quick Look, Spaces, Mail, Boot Camp, and iChat, Dreier concludes that “Leopard 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 money’s worth.”

Time Machine: “So simple, there’s no Step 3”
In his in-depth review of Time Machine, Ryan Faas (computerworld.com) does some déjà-vuing of his own, conjuring up an early iMac commercial to illustrate how simple it is for customers to use Time Machine to back up the data on their Macs. Calling it “one of the most compelling new features added to Mac OS X in years,” he praises Apple engineers for creating “a backup technology that requires little or no configuration, performs backups automatically and invisibly, and makes restoring files from those backups as simple and intuitive as humanly possible.”

Leopard “the most polished and easiest to use OS”
In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard, Edward Mendelson (pcmag.com) maintains that Leopard is “by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value.” Mendelson “found Leopard to be startlingly fast, brilliantly streamlined, and packed with conveniences and innovations. Leopard’s rich set of built-in software runs faster than I imagined possible.”

Leopard “something any Mac user will want”
After a “swift and easy” installation, Mark Kellner (Washington Times) found Mac OS X Leopard “something any Mac user will want to have.” “Offering better integration of e-mail with syndicated Internet news updates, a new backup feature likely to decrease the impact of hardware failures, and snazzy display features by the bushel, the $129 Apple Mac OS X Leopard upgrade is more than a reasonable purchase.”

Leopard offers “a better user experience” and “inherent reliability”
Laying “the foundation for the next generation of personal computing,” Leopard “redefines what personal computing looks like,” according to Michael Gartenberg (computerworld.com). And Gartenberg offers a litany of Leopard features by which he’s impressed. “Cover Flow, a feature first used in iTunes, lets you browse files visually and then see a file’s contents without opening it.” He argues that “Apple’s IM client, iChat, runs rings around what’s available for other systems.” He’s always used his “e-mail in-box as a to-do list,” Gartenberg admits, “and Apple’s Mail client makes that really work.”

“Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac”
“If you own a Mac, you’ll want Leopard,” writes Eric Benderoff (chicagotribune.com). Running Leopard on both an iBook and a MacBook Pro, Benderoff learned first hand “why Apple’s new operating system upgrade, called Leopard, continues to make Mac computers the easiest and most enjoyable to use.” Citing Cover Flow, Spotlight, Spaces, and Stacks to illustrate his point, he concludes, “I can tell you this: for $129, Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac.”

“Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10”
So states Tom Yager (InfoWorld). “People buy Macs,” Yager reports, “because the platform as a whole is perfect, full stop. Leopard is a rung above perfection. It’s taken as rote that the Mac blows away PC users’ expectations. Leopard blows away Mac users’ expectations, and that’s saying a great deal.” Leopard, Yager says “is remarkable; it’s more and better software than anyone should sell for $129.”


The best operating system ever is finally here. Yippee!!

[Gigacore]

its not a best OS ever. . . it cant beat XP. . . . XP can be used by any common individual. . .but to use OS X we need to have MAC hardware. . . which all people cant. . . . .

but i agree its better than vista coz, vista is a resource hungry beast. . . . . Ubuntu GG is better than vista . . .

[Third Eye]

Agree with Gigacore.Its not the best OS.

[aryayush]

How good an operating system is is not judged by what machines it can be installed on. It's judged by what it does and how it does it after it is installed.

What you are saying is something like, "The Zune's operating system is crap because it cannot be installed on iPods, which command around 75% of the market." Just imagine how lame that sounds!

Mac OS X is designed for Macs and forever will be - like it or not.

[Gigacore]

lol thankx third eye

WHATEVER IT IS, ITS NOT THE BEST OS EVER

its best among the mac OSes, if it cant be installed on other machines then why should they compare vista with mac os x. . . MAD

[ray|raven]

Originally Posted by Gigacore

lol thankx third eye

WHATEVER IT IS, ITS NOT THE BEST OS EVER

its best among the mac OSes, if it cant be installed on other machines then why should they compare vista with mac os x. . . MAD

Dude,please stop calling people names.
Last thing we want in the reviews board is a flame war.

Regards,
ray

[Gigacore]

did i call people name

[aryayush]

Originally Posted by Gigacore

its best among the mac OSes, if it cant be installed on other machines then why should they compare vista with mac os x. . . MAD

Because Vista can be installed on Macs and because it is the dominant player in the market.

Originally Posted by Gigacore

WHATEVER IT IS, ITS NOT THE BEST OS EVER

Yeah, I can see that you are being very logical and reasonable. LOL!

[iMav]

relax guys give him a few days to spam the review section (like he did during the iphone launch) .... let him have some fun ....

he is so excited of using features that windows users have been using for ages , let him also feel what all a computer can do and windows can has been doing dont take that excitement away from him

[aryayush]

LOL! This is funny:



I'd thought they would remove it from the final build but apparently they saw no real need to do so. Good thing too.

[The_Devil_Himself]

Hmm....I like OSX leopard too but tell me arya How can I get one to install on my system?

[iMav]

by paying 60k to get a new sytem

[Charan]

Ho no here we go... .. arya pls post all reviews in one single therad.

[aditya.shevade]

Vista is crap. I liked Mac 10.4 a lot. Have not seen 10.5 yet.

It's way better than XP. Any *nix system is way better than XP.

[iMav]

Mac 10.4 is crap. I liked Vista a lot. Have not seen Windows Vienna yet.

It's way better than XP. Any Windows system is way better than *nix.

[New]

For me also xp is the most stable os Jai XP

[ax3]

@Gigacore ...... +1 .......... softy & hardy both made by 1 comp .... so kuch toh good rahega na .......


ps: good bole toh sugar, woh wala good nahi ......

[aditya.shevade]

Originally Posted by New

For me also xp is the most stable os Jai XP

Funny actually. I had been using openSUSE (which according to many is not stable) for 6 months and did not have any problems. Computer never hanged, no freezes, execution time was very good, no worries of virus/spyware.

I had to install Win XP on the same laptop (original that came with the laptop). Within 2 days, I was fed up. I had faced 4-5 threats, the laptop had hanged 2 times. The execution time was something like 2 times that of SUSE.

@iMav, maybe 10.4 was crap but looking at Vista, I would say it was much better. Maybe 10.5 is even better.... I am waiting... need to get out of the college till I get my own mac.

[iMav]

ur laptop hung 2 times ... my dad's hp never hung in 3 years ...

[ray|raven]

Originally Posted by aditya.shevade

I had to install Win XP on the same laptop (original that came with the laptop).

@iMav
Dude,No Offence but...You blind?

Regards,
ray

[iMav]

may be ya .... side effects of multi-tasking

[ray|raven]

Wah! You miss a post and now you edit to say something else.
What happened to ur so called deal u wanted with aditya?

Regards,
ray

[iMav]

the deal's off yaar ... simple i didnt miss the post i missed the brackets

i read the first link given by u arya .... it says:

nothing revolutionary we all know that

and there author also says that it cannot co-exist with os x which is absolutely false and un-necessary fanboyism and partiality towards apple as we both know how false a claim that windows cant co-exist with mac is

[aku]

Well, all we all know...
Be it Leopard or Vista, none of them are revolutionary..
they are simply "evolutionary"

[aditya.shevade]

^^ :-d

[aryayush]

Originally Posted by iMav

ur laptop hung 2 times ... my dad's hp never hung in 3 years ...

That is, of course, a plain old lie but you know that there is no way for us to prove you wrong. It is only possible for Windows to go three years (three weeks, even) without hanging even once if it has remained shut down the whole time.

Originally Posted by Charan

Ho no here we go... .. arya pls post all reviews in one single therad.

Can't you see that that is exactly what I did! I do try to learn from my mistakes.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by aryayush

That is, of course, a plain old lie but you know that there is no way for us to prove you wrong. It is only possible for Windows to go three years (three weeks, even) without hanging even once if it has remained shut down the whole time.

Can't you see that that is exactly what I did! I do try to learn from my mistakes.

it didnt else my dad wud have killed me my existence is proof enough

[aryayush]

Yeah, I totally buy that.

[azzu]

where's GX_saurav ???
and After 5th day of installation my XP has became so slow .
switchng to LINUX is kool love this .
But No Os can Beat XP

[praka123]

XP is neither good for all.Linux that works!