Leopard a failure only in one area printer support (Okay HP printers for me, especially for older photosmart printers and my 1 year old color laser printer). Other than that I am glad to have Leopard running on 5 of my 7 MACS (okay one is a ibook 500 and can’t run it), I have one more to upgrade over the holidays. My family loves it! Failure NO, buggy YES a bit. It works much better than any version of Vista did it when it came out (or does even today)… Just my 2 cents worth!

Response to “The Mac Night Owl”

Would you call this a failure? I wouldn’t.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/12/17/npd_leopard_latest_in_chain_of_blow_out_apple_os_launches.html

Sales during Mac OS X Leopard’s first full month on store shelves reached an unprecedented high for any Apple operating system release to date, according to new research from the NPD Group.

When compared to OS sales in May 2005 — the first complete month Mac OS X Tiger was available to customers — Apple’s November 2007 sales of Leopard were 20.5 percent higher, says NPD directing analyst Chris Swenson. This amount does not include copies pre-installed with new Macs but does blend both online and retail figures.

In comparison, Tiger represented a 30 percent increase over the 2003 Panther update, and 100 percent more than the 2002 release of Jaguar.

“It’s really stunning to see Apple have one blow-out OS launch after another,” Swenson tells AppleInsider. “It’s clear that Apple has hit upon the right strategy for rolling out new versions of its OS.”

Leopard is not really a failure to me, just not a huge blockbuster success - or even a need to have. I really liked Tiger, matter of fact wanted to load it on my new iMac, but alas, Apple doesn’t allow that. The Dock in Leopard is fine with me, doesn’t erk me like some. Have not used Time Machine yet. Don’t need or use Spaces. Like having the downloads Icon to keep desktop clean, but I could have made a folder myself and dropped onto the Dock. Running apps bounce once in Dock. Don’t like Finder’s look and feel anymore though, Tiger was better. Leopard does cram more options in the left of a Finder window (various dated canned searches I don’t use). You also have coverflow for file browsing. My Lexmark printer driver flakes out, but was great in Tiger. Overall Leopard is just fine, has some refined options here and there, I have no major issues, but if it didn’t come with my new iMac, I wouldn’t have bought it. There was not one single “need” in this OS. Seems like feature glut, a problem Microsoft places on the Windows OS family. Oh and eye candy, yup, it sure is pretty!

I have had the same problem with my wireless connection. Sometimes it doesn’t work, pages don’t load or just it’s just slow. It also interferes with other automated updates like stock and bank accounts.

Hey Wil,

Just write the below two lines in Applescript, and see how your dock changes, the changed dock looks so beautiful and elegant. Try this,

“do shell script “defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES”
do shell script “killall Dock”"