* CZ:
FYI:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2566
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5646899
It is interesting to watch the various news sources to see how they handle reporting this,
if they do at all. One source took it down by the end of the first day, yet if Apple changes
the color of the case, that "news" would remain for several days.
I plan to purchased a new MacBook with OS X 10.5 Leopard this year and will post my
experience/comparison as someone who OWNS both platforms. Vista has been my main op system
for over a year and it has been excellent.
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/
Most consumers thinking about buying Apple’s (AAPL) new Leopard operating system will learn
what they need to know from the first wave of reviews — the ones written by journalists who
were given pre-loaded, pre-release copies of OS X 10.5 and had a week to play with it.
But the review that programmers were waiting for was the one by fellow developer John Siracusa,
the Ars Technica columnist who wrote the definitive assessments of the previous five versions
of OS X — and has been described as the guy who should be in charge of Finder development at Apple.
Siracusa took careful notes at the Apple developers conferences and has been living with
Leopard since the first seed was released. His review came out on Sunday, and it’s a doozy —
long, deep, painstaking detailed, and unafraid to call ‘em like he sees ‘em.
Leopard: The Definitive Review;
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
By John Siracusa | Published: October 28, 2007
Introduction
At the end of my Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger review, I wrote this.
Overall, Tiger is impressive. If this is what Apple can do with 18 months of development time
instead of 12, I tremble to think what they could do with a full two years.
That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I've gotten my wish and
then some. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has gestated longer than any release of Mac OS X (other than
10.0, that is). If I had high expectations for 10.5 back in 2005, they've only grown as the
months and years have passed. Apple's tantalizingly explicit withholding of information about
Leopard just fanned the flames. My state of mind leading up to the release of Leopard probably
matches that of a lot of Mac enthusiasts: this better be good.
Maybe the average Mac user just expects another incrementally improved version of Mac OS X.
Eighteen months, two and a half years, who's counting? Maybe we enthusiasts are just getting
greedy. After all, as Apple's been so fond of touting, there have been five releases of Mac OS
X in the time it's taken Microsoft to deliver Windows Vista.
But far be it from me to use Microsoft to calibrate my expectations. Leopard has to be
something special. And as I see it, operating system beauty is more than skin deep. While the
casual Mac user will gauge Leopard's worth by reading about the marquee features or watching a
guided tour movie at Apple's web site, those of us with an unhealthy obsession with operating
systems will be trolling through the internals to see what's really changed.
These two views of Leopard, the interface and the internals, lead to two very different
assessments. Somewhere in between lie the features themselves, judged not by the technology
they're based on or the interface provided for them, but by what they can actually do for the user.
This review will cover all of those angles, in varying degrees of depth. Like all other Mac OS
X releases before it, Leopard is too big for one review to cover everything. (After all,
Tiger's internals alone can fill over 1,600 printed pages.) As in past reviews, I've chosen to
delve deeply into the aspects of Leopard that are the most interesting to me while also trying
to provide a reasonable overview for the non-geeks who've decided to take the plunge into an
Ars Technica review. (Hi, Mom.)
Okay Leopard, let's see what you've got.
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