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A review by sibibip on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard March 31st, 2009
Author's product rating:
Instructions / Help
Satisfactory
Ease of use
Easy
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Reliability
Excellent
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Very easy to install and use, more than 300 cool features
Disadvantages:
none
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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After more than two years from its first Launched. The Mac OS X 10.5 a.k.a Leopard. Is the most flexible, powerful and easy to use OS. One of the greatest Apple ever released. The first Apple OS I lay hands on when I first bought the Black MacBook ever since I was a little kid still goofing off with Apple IIe BASIC language programming.
The Mac OS X 10.5 leopard is very easy to use, For those people who transform themselves into a first-timer Mac-User should adapt very easily using this OS. This UNIX based OS have lots of my most favorite key features. EVERY part of the OS is operated with just as easy as a click of your mouse.
My Favorite Key Features
* The Desktop
Organize your open windowed apps so easily, you can even have up to four desktop with each apps assigned to it using Spaces And up to as many app layers as you want
* Time Machine
This is a backup features that is configurable in your demand, backing up your system and data files is never been this easy. For you who have lots of file editing and then lost the document, you can easily browse back using Time Machine to go back to where your file is last edited.
System backup using Time Machine is also cool. Whenever you have a problem in the futre, for an example is Hard Drive failure. You wont need to worry. just purhcase a new HDD and restore the time machine in to the new HDD.. Boot it up and It will restore your system and data exactly the same as before your previous system crashed. Pretty cool isn't it ?
Note: I strongly suggest you have an external HDD to use Time Machine, and even better if you have the external HDD size is as same or even more than your HDD size in your device. For example, if you have a MacBook with 160GB HDD, then at least you have 160GB of Ext HDD for time machine. The theory is you can have any size of HDD for Time Machine since you can configure which data to backup using Time Machine. But is it better to just Backup your whole HDD ?
* Quick Look
This is a great feature to preview any documents or images or photos or anything without opening the Application software. just select the file and hit Spacebar you can have a quick look of the content of the file. For instance, you want to view a PDF document, you dont need to launch Adobe Reader to view it, just select the file and have a Quick Look, and you will see the entire content of the document. A very nice addition to Finder (Mac OS File Explorer)
* Boot Camp
First time I use this is so great!, you can have windows booted up in your mac. its so easy. But the only thing I dont like is, Boot Camp requires to make a seperate partitions (FAT32) in order to have windows run in your mac. A nice features though if you want to just boot Windows natively in your mac.
I Personally prefer using a Virtual Machine to boot Windows right in my Mac OS X leopard system :) So you can still use Mac Apps and windows Apps at the same time !
Security
The security of Leopard is absolutely great, set up your user access with privileges to secure your data. One thing I love the most, No need for an Anti Virus software installed ! If you set up the right configurations in your leopard, you wont be worrying about viruses trying to attack your system.
I have almost 2,5 years using Leopard, not a single virus dropped by attacking. Although there are some antivirus softwares for Mac out there, but I personally dont need them (yet at the moment .. for years..)
Installation
The installation will require very little "technician knowledge" just a few clicks here and there, then the installation process will start, and the next boot, you can start using your Mac.
Actually above features are just a tiny counts of more than 300 features available in Leopard. I'm just trying to explain and review the general features like above for you people who are interested to be a Mac User and try this sweet OS out !
Advantages: Many new features, Full support for Windows Disadvantages: OS upgrades used to be free
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is the biggest update to the Mac operating system since OS X was first released. It is the first update that I would recommend purchasing on it's own rather than waiting till you need to upgrade to a new Macintosh computer. Some of the most useful features are Time Machine which is a one button backup system (it requires an external hard drive), Spaces, an application that helps organize applications when multitasking , and ... ...documents in an organized fashion. OS X now is also fully Unix/ Linus compatible, so all Linux apps will run. This means with one computer you can use Windows, Mac OS or Linux apps. All together the updates offer a very good value upgrade for the OS X operating system. ...
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Advantages: 300+ new features, time saving, great system! Disadvantages: none?
...preloaded with this, the latest mac operating system.
The new interface is great! it comes with extra programs including boot camp, this allows you to run multiple operating systems from your mac, on start up you simply hold the 'options' key and the choice comes up of which os you boot from, i thought it would be very slow, but it works at regular speed and works seamlessly! its like having three separate computers! a mac, windows and Linux all ... ...PC, you can recover your mac to a previous point if encounter any problems.
Spaces has been added to the mac interface, effectively giving you six separate work spaces which are fully customizable. It sorts your windows between 6 'spaces' which you can flick between with a flick of a button or mouse.
The dock has been updated with 'stacks' which is an expandable stack of links within the dock, which means you can add short cuts to your favourite ...
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Advantages: Facial recognition, Places, precision editor, iweb ftp built in Disadvantages: not enough slideshow themes in iPhoto, faces can be a bit awkward at times
...the mix: new templates, new widgets and Facebook integration- similar to that features in iPhoto, you have an upgrade just about warranting a release. It really depends on how much you use iWeb.
So, overall..
iLife 09 will be priced as follows: the single user license will be priced at £69, and the five user, family pack at £85 and of course, it is free with every new Mac purchased after iLife 09’s release. It is also very important to note that this upgrade requires the latest operating system, MacOSX10.5.6, i.e. Leopard, which can be bought on its own for £83, but is available along with iLife 09 and iWork 09 (Apple’s equivalent of Microsoft Office) in a Mac Box Set, all for just £149 saving you 40%. So as usual, the pricing is very fair, and even quite cheap considering its competitors, but should you upgrade? Absolutely. i...
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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 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
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