Cody ([info]codeman38) wrote,
@ 2007-10-28 21:31:00
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Current mood: geeky
Current music:Mint Royale - Space Farm

My Mac has changed its spots (or, Alphonse has a new kitty)

So yay. I've picked up a copy of Mac OS X Leopard from the UGA bookstore and installed on my PowerBook tonight.

Observations so far:

  • Archive and Install worked much better than I expected. All my stuff, even all the applications I've installed, is still there; the only thing that was really affected was what I've compiled into the Unix directories (/usr/bin, etc.).
  • Surprisingly, despite what Apple says, Photo Booth will run on a G4 with an external camera. The frame rate is atrocious, but it runs.
  • Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator CS2 all launch, though I've encountered a few random unexpected crashes after launching. Not sure if this is because of incompatibility, preferences getting zapped during the Leopard install, or both; I'll have to investigate later.
  • Spaces. Seriously, why hasn't OS X had virtual desktops until now? VirtueDesktops was OK, but felt a bit kludgy; this seems to work far more... Apple-like. I particularly like how you can manipulate windows on the 'overhead' view and drag them among desktops.
  • Safari 3.0 final seems to load much quicker than the beta version. And it doesn't take ages to display my bookmarks menu (one of the other big annoyances I had with the beta).
    • On that note, a Java chat that I sometimes visit seems to run more snappily as well. Not sure if that's because of Safari, Java, or a combination of both.
  • How am I only now getting to checking e-mail? Oh, wow, you can sync notes and To Do lists with an IMAP server. This could be very useful for a scatterbrain like me.

I'll probably be posting more here as I discover more about Leopard. I still haven't installed Xcode yet; right now, I'm trying to move the archived Tiger install to an external drive before I even think of installing anything else, but it's going very slowly (and with good reason, since it's 10 gigs or so).

I also need to clear up enough space on my external drive to try out Time Machine... automatic backups, whee! Yet another thing that will be incredibly useful in the long run once I've got it set up...

Edited to add: Ooh, it's always the little things that really make a difference. Y'know how on the newer Mac laptops you can right-click by holding down two fingers on the trackpad? That wasn't possible on PowerBooks and iBooks in Tiger...but it is in Leopard.


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[info]mornhyland
2007-10-29 03:03 am UTC (link)
My preferred TeX editor doesn't seem to work under Leopard, sad. Spaces are neat, but the movement seems to disorient me a bit. Things are a bit quicker for sure on my mac book pro.

Be careful when you set up time machine. I'm not sure if the cat sitting on my laptop and crashing it and messing up the external drive was a fluke or not.

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[info]agentrayevyn
2007-10-29 06:42 am UTC (link)
I DON'T HAVE A STINKIN' MAC RIGHT NOW.

*pouts big time*

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[info]julian_tempest
2007-11-10 03:23 pm UTC (link)
When did you switch to Mac? I was thinking of doing so eventually. Dunno, still kinda expensive.

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[info]codeman38
2007-11-10 04:38 pm UTC (link)
Right as I was entering grad school. I'd been playing with the Macs in the music lab at Mercer for a while, and had really come to like Mac OS X.

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[info]codeman38
2007-11-10 04:46 pm UTC (link)
(Oh, and yes, my PowerBook is named Alphonse, as the subject line suggests. It's all metallic and armor-like; I couldn't resist. And then I renamed my old Gateway to Arakawa after that. And my external hard drive is named Sciezka. Yes, I am a geek.)

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[info]julian_tempest
2007-11-10 06:39 pm UTC (link)
Yes, yes you are. But that is okay. You are among brothers.

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[info]fatal_long_lost
2008-06-22 05:31 pm UTC (link)
LOL is it odd that all of the aspies on my friends list use mac?

Typed up with my MacBook 1.83!

By the way: now that it's been half a year, how do you like Leopard on your PowerBook? I'm compelled to upgrade at times, but also afraid. I like Tiger, but I have heard that MacBooks have connectivity issues that get worse with Leopard. Have you heard anything about this?

Thanks!

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[info]codeman38
2008-06-22 05:35 pm UTC (link)
I just upgraded to a new 2.4 GHz MacBook this summer, actually, but have been too brain-scrambly to post about it. (Yay tax rebates.) So awesome to be able to run Mac OS, Windows and Linux all on the same box at native speed. ^_^

I haven't been having any weird wireless issues on my MacBook with Leopard; I had some on my PowerBook with the initial release of Leopard, but that was mostly fixed with one of the update patches.

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