1. Is it actually accurate to say, "If you need Bootcamp, however, then you must have Leopard."? I know they won't support the beta any more, but aside from patches and upgrades, why MUST I have Leopard to use Bootcamp? I've never had a problem with the beta, and I'm only running XP Home virtually. I might have missed something...

Posted at 8:33PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Moose

2. "...the best days of Leopard are still yet to come."

I'd be happy with 10.5.1...

Posted at 8:34PM on Oct 30th 2007 by djscott

3. I imagine this is going to be a painfully stupid question, but I've yet to get a straight answer from anyone:

Is it possible to use Mail 3.0 in Tiger?

To be honest I'm fine with Tiger for a while, I'll probably update in a few months but so far all I want is the new Mail. CAN HAS PLZ?

Posted at 8:34PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Tom

4. Leopard,the new Mac OS.I will buy it.I bought iSkysoft DVD to iPod Converter for Mac to hlep me to convert my DVD to my iPod touch.I do not know can it run on the new Mac OS.

http://www.iskysoft.com/dvd-to-ipod-mac.html

Posted at 8:40PM on Oct 30th 2007 by rena

5. Get handbrake to rip dvd's its easier and free plus it will use h.264 and is faster and it works with leopard

Posted at 8:57PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Crash1105

6. Need the money for the iMac first...but I'll wait til Adobe issues are resolved. I need InDesign and Acrobat to get my work done.

Posted at 9:10PM on Oct 30th 2007 by jonathan ober

7. These reviews make me wonder who writes these things and who finances them? I had a failed install on a powerbook which resulted in heavy data loss and an unbootable laptop. My intel Imac went better, but I have now discovered that iChat and iCal didnt update when I did the upgrade. They won't open now. I wish I could say that things are OK with Leopard, but they clearly are not. I haven't tinkered with stuff so much that I would expect a simple upgrade to cause this much chaos. I suppose wipe and install folks are doing better, but I took the 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 10.3 / 10.4 upgrades and had little trouble (10.0 was a challenge). This one is the hardest to handle. I am very suspicious of all the positive reviews now. How could folks be having such a difficult experience yet the rumor sites hype and praise the OS?

Posted at 9:14PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Drupa

8. I have to second Drupa - where are all these reviews coming from? Out of the 10-15 people I know who upgraded to Leopard over the weekend, at least 8 of them have had serious difficulties, including myself. I personally have gotten the notorious "blue screen" on both my C2B MBP and my PB G4. They took some time to resolve using single user mode. Several applications (about 1/3) of them failed to load, and even Apple's own applications crash after 10 minutes of use. Several libraries were compiled and linked for PPC on my C2D machine, which required a couple hours of fixing.

Also, the majority of advancements in Leopard, are trivial - GUI updates,minor functionality added, etc. I do have to give credit for "Instruments" and the newly added dtrace, which are fantastic. Also XCode is now becoming my favorite IDE. However, the updates to finder and the GUI removed functionality that wasn't as "pretty" in Tiger, but much better (i.e. placing folders in the dock to emulate an applications list; stacks is incapable of doing this, and does not do things like putting most used apps/files/etc first in the "stack"... stacks is almost useless other than for cleaning up your desktop).

Posted at 9:44PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Jay

9. Why is there so much complaining in this site. Seriously.

Posted at 10:02PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Cransy

10. Apart from Time Machine (which refuses to play ball, or plays ball at a snail's pace), Leopard seems really nice so far. Seems to run pretty quickly on my G4 PPC and has some nifty new features. Installation was a breeze and took about 2 hours.

Will be interested to see what comes out with the inevitable first patch.

Posted at 10:17PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Ben the Dog

11. Agreed with the above. The complainers here are so funny.

If you expect a 1.0 product to be perfect you are insane. And this isn't a simple app - this is an operating system rewritten from the ground up for two very different architectures.

YES, there will be problems...but if you installed this and never even thought there would be you are crazy as hell.

If you installed this without backing up, why?

That said, I had the blue screen issue and a few random other items but nothing major. It does make me wish Apple had better QA, but to say everything else is horrible, well I see your attention to detail is less then that of a PC user.

Leopard is my favorite Mac upgrade since the big OS X. Bugs and all.

Posted at 11:29PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Xanthor

12. Personally, I've found Leopard to be fantastic. Perhaps it's partially due to a clean install, but Safari absolutely BLAZES now. Everything seems zippier, cleaner, slicker, shinier, more enjoyable.

Sure, there are some infuriating quibbles (Apple, is it *really* rocket science to make windows resizable on all sides???), but overall this upgrade was worth every penny and then some.

Posted at 11:43PM on Oct 30th 2007 by Quix

13. Don't know if you knew this, just found this out when I was looking for a new Background for Leopard. (I hate the Star Trek default one to bits!)

In the finder, when a file or folder is highlighted you can hit the Space Bar to pop up a Quick View of that file or folder. Hit space bar again to make Quick Look disappear!

Posted at 12:10AM on Oct 31st 2007 by Scott ELLIOTT

14. @7: Heavy data loss, eh? I guess your data wasn't worth a $70 external hard drive, then.

Posted at 12:17AM on Oct 31st 2007 by Tom

15. No problems with leopard. However I did end up having some issues due to Dot macs sync mantainence. Which trickled down to me having to reset my iPhone. I believe they are updating stuff for leopard. But who knows?

Posted at 12:20AM on Oct 31st 2007 by Dave

16. I installed Leopard on my C2D MacBook Pro and iMac G5 and it went without any problems at all (I did a clean install). 10.5 is a really solid OS release. I can't wait to see what the future holds for it. One of my biggest complaints about switching to the Mac from Linux several years ago has been resolved with Spaces. (Oh why Apple did it take you this long!?!)

I do have some minor complaints about the Finder though. I think the omission of the traditional shortcuts to your Music, Movies, and Pictures folders in the sidebar is a huge oversight and a foolish mistake. I'm sure a number of us used those in 10.1-10.4 very frequently. You can choose which folders you want to show up in Leopard's Finder preferences, but sadly those are not options anymore. I had to manually throw them in the sidebar. I really hope Apple changes that in 10.5.1. I also dislike that some folders are disorganized out of the box. You have to choose to organize them by name, kind, etc. I ran into several instances where files were just piled on top of each other when I opened certain folders after making the upgrade. The overall experience has been quite positive for me.

Posted at 4:13AM on Oct 31st 2007 by Mark S

17. I think it's great. I did clean installs on both my MacBook and my MacBook Pro and everything has been smooth.

Posted at 5:47AM on Oct 31st 2007 by henrrrik

18. It's true that I haven't seen comments on how much faster this OS is all around than Tiger was. I have been using Macs exclusively since '90. I agree that this is the best upgrade since X.

Posted at 6:14AM on Oct 31st 2007 by howardsatinsky