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Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - Article Accelerator - 05-08-2008
[quote M A V I C]I disagree with the article. Six months after release and it still does not work with most Adobe CS3 products.
That should read, "Six months after release and most Adobe CS3 products still do not work with it."
The OS came first...
FWIW, I've seen no problems here with CS3 on 10.5.2, but I'm not a heavy duty user like you presumably are.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - Wild eep - 05-08-2008
[quote M A V I C][quote bhaveshp]The Leopard VNC client is vastly superior and faster to CoVNC (or any other Mac vnc Client) even when connecting to Windows & Tiger macs. I love how it displays both screens when connecting to my Dual screen iMac.
Ok, I did not know it could be used to connect to other VNC servers. Since it's not in the app or utilities folder, I hadn't opened it on its own. So I just gave it a try. Its interface is a bit more clunky than CotVNC. No saved servers. Once logged into an XP MCE box, I found it less responsive and usable than CotVNC.
[quote deckeda]I like that if I forget to unmount a network drive, and disconnect from the network, the Finder doesn't go catatonic.
Very good point. Personally, I have a hard time giving a point to Leopard for this, however. It should have never been that way to begin with.
Spotlight DOES have a smarter brain finally.
I still find the Find feature in 8.5 worked better.
The Network pref pane redesign was done well.
Eh, it takes more clicks to get to the useful info. I don't really think it's a step up.
I like how, if you've got the login screen setup to only show user/password, the cursor is already at the username field. That's a nice help when logging in remotely, or anytime really. With Tiger, the cursor is I-don't-know-where and you have to move it first.
Or hit tab.
I don't like how the default button is now Cancel for certain Finder dialogs, because it penalizes people who know what they're doing by making them use the mouse to click OK. Cancel has the Esq key, OK now no longer has the Return key to activate it. Again, this is only in some instances.
It's dependent up on the app. That said, if you turn on universal keyboard access, the spacebar is usually cancel by default. Or hit command+c
[quote deckeda]M A V I C, yes, Spaces "should" work with CS3. But for whatever reason it apparently doesn't. Given that you didn't have Spaces in Tiger, what's the REST of Leopard been like for you?
Obviously, the pros outweigh the cons for me. Still, I think Apple not only shipped Leopard too soon but they have also failed to get it to deliver the advertised features, let alone live up to the hype.
[quote mattkime]>>So you think that the fact CS3 doesn't work well with Leopard is an exaggeration? Which part, where pallets continually disappear, especially in Flash...?
I do regular work in Flash and I've never seen that problem. Might be your special configuration.
Are you using Spaces, or have you configured Leopard to work more like Tiger?
[quote bazookaman][quote M A V I C][quote bazookaman]I use CS3 everyday (not so much Flash) and i haven't had any problems with it.
Do you use Spaces?
Negatory. No spaces here. Have not tried it.
There ya go. Spaces is one of the more touted features of Leopard.
[quote modelamac]Screen sharing has certainly been very hard, if not downright impossible for some of my friends, but they took to it like a duck to water with Leopard's iChat sharing function. It has been very useful for most of us in our iChat group.
Even though it's still tough in some cases, it has been made way easier than it used to be.
Even though you may not agree with me, my opinion is that Adobe is more to blame for the problems with their apps in Leopard than is Apple.
Other than many other apps have the same problems, and they all cite Apple acknowledging it's due to known issues on Apple's end.
I rest my case.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - M A V I C - 05-08-2008
[quote Article Accelerator][quote M A V I C]I disagree with the article. Six months after release and it still does not work with most Adobe CS3 products.
That should read, "Six months after release and most Adobe CS3 products still do not work with it."
The OS came first...
FWIW, I've seen no problems here with CS3 on 10.5.2, but I'm not a heavy duty user like you presumably are.
Eh, CS3 came out before Leopard. Apple says its their problem. So no matter how you word it, it's Apple's problem.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - M A V I C - 05-08-2008
[quote Wild eep]It's apparent that MAVIC dislikes leopard.
So for those of you that do like the new features, And that have no issues with them.
You must be wrong.
Not really. Leopard consists of a lot of features. Some people don't use some of the features. Just because someone doesn't use those features, doesn't mean they are not broken.
I haven't seen anyone say they use Leopard's Spaces with CS3 apps with no issues.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - deckeda - 05-09-2008
[quote M A V I C]
[quote deckeda]I like that if I forget to unmount a network drive, and disconnect from the network, the Finder doesn't go catatonic.
Very good point. Personally, I have a hard time giving a point to Leopard for this, however. It should have never been that way to begin with.
Think I'm better off going back to the KY lube thread now ... your logic here is pretty much a dead-end for me.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - onthedownlow - 05-09-2008
Adobe CS3 Master Collection here...works great.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - M A V I C - 05-09-2008
[quote onthedownlow]Adobe CS3 Master Collection here...works great.
Are you using Leopard? If so, are you using Spaces?
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - onthedownlow - 05-09-2008
Yes.
No...well, Spaces is activated, but I don't utilize it currently with specialized desktops.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - DaviDC. - 05-09-2008
Parallels 2.5 (build 3188.0) works fine on my Mac mini with Leopard. I've come to realize that I can't suspend XP before quitting Parallels otherwise it does noting but sit there when I open it again. I shut down XP, quit Parallels, then restart XP the next time I have to use it. I even updated to SP 3 this afternoon & it still works just like it should.
Re: Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype? - incognegro - 05-09-2008
i have Parallels 2.5 build 3214. I guess I can always try it w/Leopard. I did a full clone backup of my laptop.