OS X 10.5 Leopard is fast, stable and has a set of new features.
Time Machine to back up and restore you files, Spaces to organize your desktop and keep you more organized, Quick Look to preview and browse your files without even opening a program, Stacks to keep you desktop clean and free from large amounts of files and to organize downloads, Cover Flow for a visually stunning way to browse you Pictures applications and other files. Parental controls include Bedtime and time limits. Many kids would sit at the computer for days if you let them. Fortunately, Leopard makes it easier to set the rules. Just enter bedtime and time limits for using the Mac, specifying different times for weekdays and weekends if you wish. Parental controls can also log your kids' activities to help you keep them from communicating with people they shouldn't be. The log keeps track of websites your kids have visited, applications they've used, and people they've chatted with. It's the perfect way to make sure your children stay safe online. You can access the parental controls and monitor logs remotely from any Mac on the network. Spotlight in Leopard lets you search for more specific sets of things. Use Boolean logic to narrow search results by entering AND, OR, or NOT in a search request. Search for exact phrases using quotation marks, or search for items by dates or ranges using > and < symbols. And now you can even use Spotlight to perform simple calculations. Just enter numbers and operators, then hit Return. Very handy.
Leopard is also compatible with 64 bitcomputers and is built from top to bottom to support them, so it runs fantastic on new Core 2 duo Macs with 64 bit support. Networking has also been improved to give a very nice speed increase in both transferring large files and to improve the speed of broadband connections. Improved Calendar and Mail with templates are fantastic you have invitations, birthdays greetings and more, change fonts, colors, and drag-and-drop photos your iPhoto library everything you need for the perfect email Mail also has built in RSS support so you can get news and information in your mail application. Safari Browser is faster and more stable and has a webclip feature to save live pages and show them in the Dashboard and has improved Tabs, you can open and switch between multiple web pages in a single window. Drag and drop your tabs to rearrange them, open one in a new browser window, or merge all your current windows into one tabbed window.. Photobooth even better fun for the kids and you will struggle to get them of it with all the built in effects.
This is a winner and worthy successor to OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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(+) Faster, good networking with other Windows machine, so far it has not crashed. (-) price, best to do a fresh install which will involve backup & restore of information
Advantages: Superb screen, superior speakers, huge capacity, multiplicity of functions, brilliant photo suite Disadvantages: A new 'language' to learn and company support not as good as one would expect.
Advantages: Superb screen, superior speakers, huge capacity, multiplicity of functions, brilliant photo suite Disadvantages: A new 'language' to learn and company support not as good as one would expect.
Nov 1st, 2007
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