“I started this review talking about expectations. As I’ve learned more about Leopard, it’s become increasingly clear where, exactly, those two-and-a-half years of development time went. Leopard is absolutely packed with improvements. It seems that not a corner of the OS has gone untouched.
Perhaps that’s not as clear to the casual user who just sees the surface changes and the major new features in Leopard. But even in that case, there’s more than enough to recommend it. if you’re wondering whether you should upgrade to Leopard, the answer, as it’s been for every major revision of Mac OS X, is yes.”
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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Mac OS X Leopard
October 27th, 2007 · Comments Off
“There isn’t much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn’t already been done.”
‘The most significant new feature in Leopard is Time Machine.’
“As with every OS X update since version 10.1, there’s no single feature in Leopard that will force Mac users to upgrade immediately. Instead, it’s the sheer deluge of new features that’s likely to persuade most active Mac users to upgrade, especially since this is the longest gap between OS X upgrades — two and a half years — since the product was introduced.”
“Leopard is not a revolutionary release - I wouldn’t expect it to be, it’s a mature operating system - but it is easily the best OS X ever, the culmination of a decade of UI research and OS refinement.”
“No matter how you work the numbers, though, it’s pretty clear that Apple has yet again crammed way more than $129 worth of value into its latest OS update.”
