Loving Leopard OS X 10.5
October 26, 2007
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I got Leopard this morning from FedEx and got it up and running this afternoon. After a 40min Archive and Install, Leopard was running beautifully on my MacBook with no problems at all. Spent some time playing around with the features, and I’m really loving it. Things I love most right now: Quick Look, Finder, Mail, iChat and I’m sure I’ll figure out how best to use Spaces soon. There are a few things that I’m a little annoyed about (only being able to use list mode to browse files when using Cover Flow, and the semi-translucent menu bar) - but overall, Leopard is great and was totally worth the cost. Engadget has a pretty thorough review up here and I’d agree with most of their thoughts.
Tags: Apple, Computers
Posted in Technology
Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 yr old 
October 27th, 2007 at 1:41 am
I definitely plan to get it. although with three macs in the house i need a multi-user version. i am always a little timid to buy the first week. i know that after a week or so, any big issues will have been identified and hopefully addressed. we will see. please let us know if you run into any glitches or obstacles. thanks.
mike
October 27th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
eww gross the leaning tower spaces. . . please tell me there is another way to use that.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
eww the dock looks ugly too. . . does clear dock work on the new OS?
October 29th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
While I’m loving the new features and eye candy of Leopard, Spaces is a thank you-no thank you feature for me. I gave it a try and found it more annoying than helpful. I’ve always switched Stacks to open in a panel instead of the Leaning Tower of Files. I actually like the clear dock though I suppose it depends on your background image. Oh yeh, and the graphics for the Mail is again fun but so far every email I’ve sent to people not using a Mac is a total mess so I either need to stick with old white emails or drop all my Microsoft-using friends. I’m still debating between choices…
November 5th, 2007 at 3:17 am
clear dock does not work…in fact it crashes the OS during boot. However here is a trick to get a clear dock again.
Type this in terminal: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
Then go to /System/Library/Core Services/Dock
Show package contents: /resources
Delete the following Files:
Bottom1.png
Bottom2.png
Bottom3.png
Bottom4.png
Bottom5.png
Now in terminal type: killall Dock
And you are done and now have a nice clear dock once again.
November 11th, 2007 at 12:31 am
mike. . . it didn’t go clear
it still has a darker shading