OSX Leopard?

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Has any fellow Apple owners upgraded to Leopard today?

I'm simply curious to know if it's a worthwhile upgrade...

I just read this reviewof Leopard. But I'm still undecided.

I wish I had enough money to buy it.

Yup - using it on both my MBP and my Mac Mini. It's a nice improvement over Tiger, and the Finder in particular is vastly improved. It's particularly easy to share things between the two computers now.

Things that bug me? The translucent menu bar is a pain, and Stacks is crap if there's lots of stuff in the folder.

Is it worth paying the money? Well, that depends on whether you've got Bittorrent set up, it would seem...

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/1 ... pard-.html

I just finished "buying" it. Haven't installed, waiting on official word about the BSODs.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... 8&from=rss

haven't gotten around to it yet. Really looking forward to time machine, however.

What does Leopard involve? I ask because I am a future Mac owner.

Tim

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

Burning it to a DL disk. I'm going to do an archive install.

It's installed.

It's an os upgrade. Like Vista is an "upgrade" over XP. Though Leoperd is actually better than it's predicessor which isn't so with Vista.

If you buy a mac now, yours will come with it.

Anywho, it is worthwhile. Spotlight is faster and a lot more useful if you are looking for an app.

Time Machine is good if you find backups to be a PITA because it does the backing up for you on an external drive.

Stacks, while a minor feature, are useful if you group your applications into folders and make stacks of those folders, my dock is a lot more compact now.

If you use Boot Camp it's semi-manditory, since you are deprived of much needed driver updates otherwise and the tool no longer works. (bastards!)

The preview button is nice, combined with coverflow browsing pictures is easier.

Spaces isn't all that attractive, I used to like multiple desktops until I started using Expose and things that mimicked it. Now I just open everything in one great big pile of windows and use expose to find my apps. Probably useful for people migrating from windows who aren't used to expose and people from linux who have used multiple desktops.

There's finder improvements, but they just annoy me.

Ordered my copy from the Apple store. Should receive via courier early next week

I think I'll give it a miss.

Is there any way to get OSX Leopard to run in VMware or another virtualization software? I know it is possible with Tiger.