Mac heads!

[EvEr34]

Just installed Leopard. So far so good. Lots of neat little apps. Some of these apps do not operate the way I initially thought they would but the work nonetheless and pretty well at that.

Spaces is probably the app i'll use the most and it works as described.


COOL!

[BLSampson]

Cool, I plan on getting mine tomorrow.

[colemanitis]

Time Machine looks really cool if you have an external hard-drive!

[EvEr34]

Safari is about 2 times faster if not more. Wicked

[ohsixx]

Too tired to go tonight; picking it up in the morning.

[BLSampson]

Originally Posted by EvEr34

Safari is about 2 times faster if not more. Wicked

Are there increased RAM requirements? I'm currently running 2 gigs.

[EvEr34]

I had pre-ordered couple weeks ago. Fedex guy showed at my house around 4 and he had 40 stops for the same package to be delivered tonight.

[EvEr34]

Originally Posted by BLSampson

Are there increased RAM requirements? I'm currently running 2 gigs.

Nah! i'm running 1.5mb on my powerbook on airport extreme network and browser has never been this fast. I just ran a stress test and exactly 48 web pages one after another and took a total of 82 sec.

[EvEr34]

Originally Posted by colemanitis

Time Machine looks really cool if you have an external hard-drive!

I'm not sure but I think time machine was not supposed to need an external HD at first. Not sure though.

Is there such a thing as a wireless HD??

[colemanitis]

Originally Posted by EvEr34

I'm not sure but I think time machine was not supposed to need an external HD at first. Not sure though.

Is there such a thing as a wireless HD??

It's a backup program. You'll need an external drive for your backups.

[EvEr34]

Originally Posted by colemanitis

It's a backup program. You'll need an external drive for your backups.

I know what it is. When I first heard of time machine I thought the backups would be partitioned on the same hard drive. I guess I had just misunderstood the whole application.

[colemanitis]

I suppose you could use your hard drive, but what if your computer crashes?

[EvEr34]

Originally Posted by colemanitis

I suppose you could use your hard drive, but what if your computer crashes?

I agree. Like I said I thought it was going to act more like a "restore" on a PC. I'll just get an ext. HD.

[Paulie]

I have three Mac's in the house. My 2Ghz G5 iMac 20", my old 15" TiBook G4/800mhz and an original 15" iLamp 700mhz. The Min specs for speed and Leopard is 867Mhz.

So I'm going to wait and see if they hack the bios on the TiBooks to let it install on my 800Mhz. The iLamp will end up being an Ubuntu linux box. :)

Funny, I bought the Aqua Terra instead of a computer. I bet the wife is shocked.

[Lol-x]

Seems to run O.K. on my mac mini with 2gig of memory.
Safari still isn't as good as Firefox IMHO. Safari isn't compatable with the Yahoo Mail interface that has been around now for more than 6 months

[Paulie]

Originally Posted by Lol-x

Seems to run O.K. on my mac mini with 2gig of memory.
Safari still isn't as good as Firefox IMHO. Safari isn't compatable with the Yahoo Mail interface that has been around now for more than 6 months

Have you tried Camino? It's another Mozilla based browser, but from he ground up using Mac style interface. One feature that I like better than Firefox is Camino uses the MacOS keychain to store passwords.

http://caminobrowser.org/

[Governor]

I just hope these new OS releases are worthy of making what was good mac hardware now technically obsolete. i.e.G4

[daunwaun]

oh you mac guys

[ohsixx]

It does seem faster for sure.

[Lol-x]

It is much faster for printing, not delay at all, very good.
Still haven't tried spaces yet.
Can't seem to understand the new expanding dock.
I'd say it is worth the $150 upgrade price.

[EvEr34]

Originally Posted by Lol-x

It is much faster for printing, not delay at all, very good.
Still haven't tried spaces yet.
Can't seem to understand the new expanding dock.
I'd say it is worth the $150 upgrade price.

what do you mean by expanding dock.?

[Lol-x]

There are some icons that are supposed to extend out from the dock across the screen.

[EvEr34]

Originally Posted by Lol-x

There are some icons that are supposed to extend out from the dock across the screen.

Ok got you. I'm using this option as follows. There are many files within one category that I use often. Instead of cluttering the desktop with these files I have create a folder to keep them in and have moved this folder to the "stacks" section of the dock. When they are needed I just click on that folder and they will fan out. From there I pick the one I want. Many folders can be created.

It accelerates the selection of a file and decluters the desktop.

[AardTech]

upgrading two Macs tomorrow; current-gen 24" iMac and 13" MacBook, both running 2GB RAM and 10.4.10 right now.

[Downing]

Picked up the Leopard family pack last night and put it on my MBP and my wife's MB, no problems.

I'm still playing around with it. Not sure I'm getting a lot of bang for the buck for what I use my laptop for, but it wasn't a lot of bucks so no complaints here.

My wife's been trying to run Windows Vista via Parallels on her MB for some time now. Even with 2 gigs of RAM it's running verrrrry slooooowly. I think we'll give Boot Camp a try.