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Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.1 Leopard | List Price: $129.00
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Platform: Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X, Leopard
Brand: Apple
Binding: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2007-10-26
Features: - Introduces over 300 new and enhanced features to OS X, including a new desktop and updated finder enabling easy browsing and sharing between multiple Macs
- Take advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware with full native 64-bit support, multi-core optimization, and new Core animation
- Preview files without opening an application using Quick Look
- Easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac with Time Machine
- Create groups of applications and instantly switch between them with Spaces
A good DVD for a rental, but not good enough for a purchase [Posted on 2008-05-06]
When I was young I always loved watching National Geographic videos that talked about wildlife, people and the Earth itself and how all of this ecosystem interacts with each other. I also loved the series that BBC has made about lions, cheetahs and panthers. It is difficult not to like those educational films even for this generation's youth.
This film, however, incorporates the documentary and fictional plot together to try to make a good family film. The plot itself appears to be a little rushed, perhaps but stable enough to watch the entire movie without taking a lot of the so-called "bathroom breaks". I know that this is a sequel to continuous series of similar films. I have not seen the previous release known as "Tiger" but I heard that the movies share one thing in common - the big cat (the main character, also the protagonist) is always named Macos. I have to assume that the name has a significant meaning in some ancient African tribe language but the movie and its previous versions does not do good job at explaining the name or the origin.
So, we have this cat whose name is Macos the Leopard. It's a beautiful leopard indeed, with shiny and reflective fur, polished tail and a beautiful overall look. Macos is born in a secret wildlife center with many difficulties along the way. We see see how the doctors struggle to get him up and running with all the other cats but Macos simply cannot accomplish the goal. He struggles, suffers. He was scheduled to be released in an African savanna but because of all these health difficulties after birth the release date has been delayed by long time, a few months. Meanwhile the workers of the wildlife center tell the curious public that the little Macos is simply learning and verifying his steps to survive after his release.
They release him but unfortunately he was still not strong enough to rule the jungle. Right after his release he has been infected with many bugs who tortured him brutally (and still did even at the end of the film), drinking his blood and making him suffer. The wildlife workers would of loved to catch and help him but he is already out in the wild! The rest of the movie shows the wildlife doctors trying to send him little crates of meat with medicine in it from a helicopter, to help him kill all the bugs but because of all the difficulties and pressure they are only able to issue two (2).. just two of these crates. They were preparing to send in the 3rd but the DVD simply will not play the rest. So I never got to see the end.
The overall look and feel of the DVD is great but it will not play the rest of the movie even with the disk wiped clean. If the producer decides to issue an update to this version of the movie with the rest of Macos's struggle (and hopefully a happy ending) then I will happily recommend this movie for purchase but until then its only worth a rent.
While the producers are trying to get everything sorted out I would recommend you to see the previous versions of the film, like I will. All of them (or most) have happy endings - at least thats what the reviews say. Let's see what will develop.
A Few Changes [Posted on 2008-05-07]
I purchased this shortly after it went to 10.5.1. Honestly I don't really see that much of a change. I mean; yes it looks a "little" better with the incorrectly rendered reflections on the doc.
This edition feels like a small update to 10.4. Not so sure it was worth the money to get a little cleaner UI and a few small extra things like Time Machine and the loss of iLife applications like Garage Band, iPhoto and a few others that don't come to mind right now. To get these back I used my OEM DVD for 10.4 to re-install them.
10.5.3 [Posted on 2008-05-08]
Note that I have used 10.5.2 but I do not yet own it. Soon.....
I am reviewing anyways just to say that there are some problems with 10.5.2 at the moment that may or may not affect what you want to do. Check out online to see if it will. If it does the best recommendation is to wait till 10.5.3 is released (hopefully June 2008?). Seems Apple is putting a great deal of effort to get the update finished and as bug free as possible. A couple of the problems do affect me so I am waiting a bit first.
However 10.5 still is a great OS and makes Vista look sick and obese. Oh yes, while I would never do it myself if the cost of Macs are prohibitive there are ways to allow some PC's to use OSX (albiet imperfectly) with the right parts. Then maybe you can trash Windows :-)
Beware if you have an older MAC [Posted on 2008-05-09]
Beware if you have an older mac. The installer doesn't work well with older macs. I work with Windows and UNIX and I found the installer of this product to be extremely poorly designed. I have 20+ years of system administration experience and found this to be the worst upgrade I've went through in the last 5 years. We tried to update a G4 that was running 10.3.x. After cleaning up the disk enough to install the Leopard the install failed. We could not come back up on 10.3 since the install had wiped out the 10.3 install. We could not re-install 10.5 since 10.5 had installed enough of 10.5 to make the installer think there was not enough disk space. I had to boot the system into single user mode and manually remove enough of the 10.5 installation so the installer would try the re-install. I had to do this re-install thing 5 times and still no luck. Apple support was useless and told us we had a bad DVD. I did a google search on our problem and found a blog from someone who had the same problem with the installer and fixed it by removing RAM from the system so that there was no more than 512 MB of ram in the system. I removed the extra ram and the system installed the first time. Everything than seemed to work well and I thought everything was fine.
Little did I know that when I tried to update the system to 10.5.2 that the system would become completely useless. The update to 10.5.2 downloaded and installed but at the last step it failed. The system wouldn't boot, didn't have enough disk space to re-install 10.5.1, couldn't boot into single user mode so the only choice was to wipe the disk and do a fresh install.
If you want to risk this upgrade backup all of your data. Better yet, get a second hard drive and install 10.5 on the second hard drive and keep your options open to boot up on the old system. Do a google search on Leopard and G4 problems.
I don't think Apple has any bragging rights about Leopard being easier to use than Vista.
Love it! [Posted on 2008-05-09]
One word: Spaces!
I have always brought in my laptop to use at work, but now that I am running Leopard I not only would rather use my Mac, but cannot work well without it. Spaces gives me the perfect environment to get my work done.
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