Leopard at six months: Does it live up to the early hype?

[Chupa Chupa]

[quote M A V I C][quote Chupa Chupa]Yes, I enjoy it. It's very stable and most of the new features, like being able to view a doc w/o having to open the app are fantastic. I still don't like Stacks. Apple has tweaked it a little to make it more usable. Spaces drives me nuts. I love how you can instantly plant dates and addresses from email to iCal. Overall I think you get your $100 worth easily.
So two things you don't like, one thing you like, and one thing that has been around since before OS X?
No. Of the features I mentioned those are two that I really like (quick look and email to iCal) two (spaces and stacks) that I don't care for. I didn't intend for a few sentences to be an all inclusive feature review. As said, overall it's worth the $100 entry fee.

[blooz]

I've had problems but lately nothing major.
I may have an iphoto issue but I need to study it a little to see if it's a Leoplard problem of one of my FU's.
No that's not "Follow-Up".

Time machine has saved my butt about three times since I got the new external for it a month ago. But i still think a regular back-up would be advisable, but it's nice to go to time machine and find the missing item in seconds.

[M A V I C]

[quote mattkime]The downsides of Leopard have been greatly exaggerated.
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...?

[quote Chupa Chupa]No. Of the features I mentioned those are two that I really like (quick look and email to iCal) two (spaces and stacks) that I don't care for. I didn't intend for a few sentences to be an all inclusive feature review. As said, overall it's worth the $100 entry fee.
The "email to iCal" thing has been around for a long, long time.

[Z]

My favorite update: spotlight is now as fast as it should be, or at least head and shoulders faster than it was under 10.4.

No major problems encountered in my first week or so with 10.5 - though the 10.5 -> 10.5.2 combo updater isn't loading properly - I need to try and pull down the individual updates and see if that solves the problem.

[bhaveshp]

I think it was a very worthwhile upgrade from Tiger. Pluses that I use regularly:

* Built-in VNC screen sharing client
* Time machine backups to airport connected airdisk
* Network shares in Finder sidebar
* Yahoo Address book sync
* Quick view to instantly view docs
* Bootcamp (not quite new, but still a 'finished' Leopard feature)
* Much improved Parental controls - Use it to limit hours of use on weekdays
* Kids like the iChat backdrop gimmick

I don't care for the Cover Flow eye candy and I can't stand stacks even after the 10.5.2 improvements.

Edit: Agreed, the improved spotlight allowed me to get rid of Quicksilver

[bazookaman]

I use CS3 everyday (not so much Flash) and i haven't had any problems with it.

[M A V I C]

* Built-in VNC screen sharing client
Well, it hasn't been that hard to use a third party client for the past 10 years or so. I do find that it's Leopard to Leopard integration is much better than standard VNC.

* Network shares in Finder sidebar
That's been possible since the sidebar was introduced. What's worse now, is the sidebar is less configurable than it used to be.

[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?

[bhaveshp]

[quote M A V I C]* Built-in VNC screen sharing client
Well, it hasn't been that hard to use a third party client for the past 10 years or so. I do find that it's Leopard to Leopard integration is much better than standard VNC.

* Network shares in Finder sidebar
That's been possible since the sidebar was introduced. What's worse now, is the sidebar is less configurable than it used to be.
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.

I've never seen Network shares automatically show up in the sidebar under Tiger. You had to manually browse for them and connect. Listing them in the Finder makes it much easier for the family to fully use network shares.

[Jimmypoo]

[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.

Some of it's much hyped features are still broken. It can't even live up to the advertising, let alone the hype.
Please be more specific. I've not run into any CS 3 issues that I can think of... I surely don't maximize all it does, but I make use of some of the neat stuff, like CoverFlow, in particular, for documents I don't want to launch to see, and I've not had a single printer issue (or scanner) - and I've got lots of them..... (some people had driver issues..)

LaserWriter 360s (two)
LaserWriter 12/640
Lexmark Optra E310
HP LaserJet P2015 (today's special! Thanks to Carnos! $3.36 - after $125 rebate!)
Epson 900
Epson 820 Photo
Epson c82
Epson R300
Epson R260
Canon AIO (free with Macbook after rebate)
&
HP 2345 (little cheapy that uses 21/22 & opt 58) which kicks out photos as good as all.

No problems with any Firewire drives, no problems with external support for Lightscribe
drives after making my OWN little addition on the Lightscribe software list of "approved drives" (I changed a Toshiba model from an 18x to a 20x in the prefs list and it accepted it!), and an Epson 1650 scanner (via VueScan or Epson) - so I'm curious as to what issues everyone else is having.... and with what products?