Apple OS X 10.5.6 Leopard Retail for Mac
- Platform: Mac
- Distribution Media: DVD-ROM
- Version: Full Version
- Software Category: Operating Systems
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Leopard better than Vista
Pros
User friendly which is what any OS should shoot for.
Cons
A slight glitch with Time Machine and the 10.5.6 update on some machines.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Get a Mac with Leopard over a PC with Vista. You will be glad you did.
Better than Vista?
For the 97.9% percent of the home, small business, and corporate users who buy a new PC, most will have a computer preloaded with Windows Vista, somewhat buggy and only a three star product in my humble opinion. But the bugs gives me, as a certified Microsoft tech some work. :)
I was also an Apple warranty tech and like the Maytag repairman, I got very little work. Why? Because OS 9, and later the even more stable OS X.
OS X today:
While OS X has had a bad start with the beta, succeeding versions almost always addressed previous problems and overall the operating system has become more stable and useful. OS X 10.5.5 is almost as perfect as an OS can get.
Key features:
This operating system, like all the Mac operating systems before it, was designed to be extremely user friendly, and certainly friendlier than any of Microsoft's Windows operating systems.
At first look, OS X is stunning, and while 10.5 does not have as functional a graphic user interface as 10.4, due to the hard to see markers showing if a program is active or not, it is still a far better system than Microsoft Windows.
You have your digital still photo software, digital video software, a great music making software, called GarageBand, which has even become well known on the PC side for those who do music, and my favorite, a nifty little app called dashboard, which can tell you the time, date showing the whole month, and six day forecast showing the highs and lows of each day. This really comes in handy when I embark on my part time job as a gardener landscaper.
When I do my work as a computer consultant, I always tell my customers to back up their work on CD media, USB thumb drives, and USB 2.0 or Firewire external hard drives. This is a good practice for keeping data from the recent past all the way up to years ago, if that information is needed. But with 10.5, there is a new app called Time Machine which can show you how your information was set up and how it was arranged on any given day in the past. When Apple Inc. updated 10.5.5 to 10.5.6, some of my clients experienced some minor malfunctions in Time Machine. This is more due to some faulty code in the 10.5.6 update than the entire 10.5 operating system.
Requirements:
For optimal use, I would recommend at least a single Intel processor, such as the older Mac mini Core Solo powered computer, of course all the way up to the Intel eight core Mac Pros.
While 10.5 can be run with 1 GB of RAM, it can become problematic and slow when running several programs concurrently. When this happens, the machine slows down on some or all of the programs opening up, closing, and operating.
I would suggest at least 1.5 GB to 2 GB of RAM to make 10.5 work as swiftly as 10.4 running on 1 GB of RAM.
This isn't a bad thing since all operating systems I know of have evolved to require more RAM each time a new operating system hits the market. At the same time RAM prices have gone down in price dramatically so 1.5 GB of RAM in any Mac (or PC) is not an unrealistic request.
Recommendation:
When you buy a Mac, which now comes with 10.5.5, keep it that way until Apple Inc. comes out with 10.5.7 to patch any issues with 10.5.6. These are all versions of Leopard, which again, is much better than its chief competitor, Windows Vista.
For the 97.9% percent of the home, small business, and corporate users who buy a new PC, most will have a computer preloaded with Windows Vista, somewhat buggy and only a three star product in my humble opinion. But the bugs gives me, as a certified Microsoft tech some work. :)
I was also an Apple warranty tech and like the Maytag repairman, I got very little work. Why? Because OS 9, and later the even more stable OS X.
OS X today:
While OS X has had a bad start with the beta, succeeding versions almost always addressed previous problems and overall the operating system has become more stable and useful. OS X 10.5.5 is almost as perfect as an OS can get.
Key features:
This operating system, like all the Mac operating systems before it, was designed to be extremely user friendly, and certainly friendlier than any of Microsoft's Windows operating systems.
At first look, OS X is stunning, and while 10.5 does not have as functional a graphic user interface as 10.4, due to the hard to see markers showing if a program is active or not, it is still a far better system than Microsoft Windows.
You have your digital still photo software, digital video software, a great music making software, called GarageBand, which has even become well known on the PC side for those who do music, and my favorite, a nifty little app called dashboard, which can tell you the time, date showing the whole month, and six day forecast showing the highs and lows of each day. This really comes in handy when I embark on my part time job as a gardener landscaper.
When I do my work as a computer consultant, I always tell my customers to back up their work on CD media, USB thumb drives, and USB 2.0 or Firewire external hard drives. This is a good practice for keeping data from the recent past all the way up to years ago, if that information is needed. But with 10.5, there is a new app called Time Machine which can show you how your information was set up and how it was arranged on any given day in the past. When Apple Inc. updated 10.5.5 to 10.5.6, some of my clients experienced some minor malfunctions in Time Machine. This is more due to some faulty code in the 10.5.6 update than the entire 10.5 operating system.
Requirements:
For optimal use, I would recommend at least a single Intel processor, such as the older Mac mini Core Solo powered computer, of course all the way up to the Intel eight core Mac Pros.
While 10.5 can be run with 1 GB of RAM, it can become problematic and slow when running several programs concurrently. When this happens, the machine slows down on some or all of the programs opening up, closing, and operating.
I would suggest at least 1.5 GB to 2 GB of RAM to make 10.5 work as swiftly as 10.4 running on 1 GB of RAM.
This isn't a bad thing since all operating systems I know of have evolved to require more RAM each time a new operating system hits the market. At the same time RAM prices have gone down in price dramatically so 1.5 GB of RAM in any Mac (or PC) is not an unrealistic request.
Recommendation:
When you buy a Mac, which now comes with 10.5.5, keep it that way until Apple Inc. comes out with 10.5.7 to patch any issues with 10.5.6. These are all versions of Leopard, which again, is much better than its chief competitor, Windows Vista.
