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List Price: $129.99
Our Price: $109.99
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Manufacturer: Apple
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Apple
Color: 1-user
EAN: 5050053026040
Feature: Introduces over 300 new and enhanced features to OS X, including a new desktop and updated finder enabling easy browsing and sharing between multiple Macs
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Apple
Manufacturer: Apple
Model: MB576Z/A
Platform: Mac OS X
Publication Date: 2007-10-31
Publisher: Apple
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Studio: Apple
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Features
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Introduces over 300 new and enhanced features to OS X, including a new desktop and updated finder enabling easy browsing and sharing between multiple Macs
Take advantage of the latest developments in processor hardware with full native 64-bit support, multi-core optimization, and new Core animation
Preview files without opening an application using Quick Look
Easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac with Time Machine
Create groups of applications and instantly switch between them with Spaces
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Editorial Reviews:
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Mac OS X v.10.5 Leopard is the newest release of Apple's innovative, stable and compatible operating system for Macintosh computers. This new release includes an elegant new interface and over 300 new innovations designed to help customers accomplish any task. Improvements have been included for all your favorite Mac programs like iChat and Mail, as well as all-new features such as Quick Look, which lets you peruse the contents of a multiple-page document or video without opening the whole file, and Time Machine, which can recover files in seconds. OS X 10.5 has all this, as well as the exceptional search technology, stunning graphics, rapid connectivity and solid stability you've come to expect from the OSX family of operating systems. iChat now lets you present movies, presentations and virtually any document during your chtas with iChat Theater. You can even save your audio and video chats for sharing or synching with an iPod to play on the go. Communicate with 30 professionally designed stationary template, keep important notes and track to-do items in Mail You can now group applications into Spaces and move between each Space with keyboard shortcuts to organize your windows and reduce clutter
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Needs more kinks worked out
Comment: Leopard still has a number of bugs which can be limiting in its use compared to the very stable and bug free 10.4. Wish I had waited. So frustrating to go from trouble free to a number of issues which limit my computer use and are difficult if not possible at this time to resolve with Apple.
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Summary: Great OS (though X11 is messed up)
Comment: Like Tiger before it, Leopard is worth every penny. Time machine works seamlessly (if you don't make the same mistake I did and use a LaCie drive for backup - it will fail sooner rather than later). Most new features are excellent. Unfortunately, the new X11 that ships with Leopard is badly messed up (at least when I installed it a while ago). Luckily, you can download the latest build from http://xquartz.macosforge.org is you need to use X11 professionally. Overall, Leopard is great and worth the upgrade!
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Summary: upgrading
Comment: buying Leopard was easy. saved a little money too, so that's always nice. upgrading to Leopard... why does it have to take up so much memory!!!! it's not that different enough from my old OS, but takes up so many Gigs! i was on 10.2 before the upgrade. oh well, it's done now.
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Summary: Finder windows problems
Comment: My work requires me to set up folders that hold hundreds and sometimes thousands of archived files. Therefore, I always use the simple list mode to scroll up and down in a narrow Finder window and open folders in the same window and without the need to having a sidebar, I never used the sidebar before anyway. something which worked great with Tiger.
When I upgraded to Leopard I couldn't have the simple list Finder window anymore. I found that in order to do that, I need to get a rid of the sidebar by clicking on the oval top right button on the Finder window which also get a rid of the top menu which includes the "back" and "forward" arrow buttons that are essential to going back and forth between folders. Although the arrow buttons can be substituted by activating the Path Bar at the bottom of the window by checking "Show Path Bar" in the "View" pulldown menu in top of the screen, which I don't find as fast and easy to use as the arrow buttons. I also shockingly found out that when I get a rid of the sidebar (and the top menu), folders always open in a new window no matter what, even if the "Always open folders in a new window" left unchecked in the "Finder" pull down menu in the top left corner of the screen.
So now I'm stuck with having to have the useless sidebar that takes much room on my little 15.4 screen of my MacBook Pro in every window I open in order just to make folders open in the same window.
The other thing is that Leopard does not memorize the Finder's window settings and location, I must go through resetting my windows to my specifications every time.
This may sounds like a simple issue but it is a very important one because most of us use the same window settings from start to end, we rarely change to different settings or location.
Apple, I hope you issue correction to this important problem soon.
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Summary: Causes repeated system crashes for G series "Power-PC" processors.
Comment: This OS is nice and well enough designed for Intel processor machines, but for "Power-PC" processor Macs, it's a disaster. I have one of the last of the G5 iMacs (20") and it never crashed at all with Mac OS 10.4. But with 10.5, IT WILL CRASH EVERY TIME I use iTunes. Sometimes it crashes when I'm using iTunes, and sometimes it will crash after I use that program and quit the application. It doesn't seem to matter what I do. And yes, this is a legal, registered version of the OS. I have reinstalled it twice with no effect. Apple has some serious work to do to make this latest OS viable for their not-too-distant machines. Until they figure it out, users should avoid this OS.
Thanks for reading,
-CL
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