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Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is packed with over 300 features, installs easily, and works with the software and accessories you already have. Choose a single-user license for home or office. Or if you have more than one Mac at home, choose the five-user Family Pack.Main Features:Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Family PackDesktop - a neat place to work: Leopard brings a stunning look to the desktop, and stacks provides a great new way to keep it cleanFinder - give your files the rock star treatment: See your files r...
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Not a "must" upgrade, but definitely an evolution I have personally found 'Tiger' to be the most efficient OS X to date, and therefore a real favourite for a couple of years when I was working in a graphics department. Their is no doubt Leopard is a beautiful upgrade, containing a stated "300+ upgrades", however, it is by no means essential if you Mac is work work purposes. The extra features we've found are not for the productive side of things, but more for consolidating files, making things visually look better, and a few notable new programs. In... more info
No, it's not better than windows. But it isn't worse. It's in the middle.
I'm tired of reading these articles on how macs are vastly superior to windows based machines. if you consider that microsoft has to tailor an operating system to work on countless configurations of hardware, whereas apple mass produces the same specificiation for every set brand of computer, you may understand why windows crashes a bit more.
macs crash, by the way. mine froze on imovie the first day i got it. impressive, ey?
of course, mac os x leopard is stunning.... more info
Easy and fault free upgrade to Mini Mac with Tiger I started over a year ago with a Mini Mac with a Tiger operating system and then subsequently added an I-Mac and Notebook with Leopard pre- installed. So I found myself having to accept the need for an upgrade especially with the ability to better network all our domestic computers using Leopard. The result was a painless and hassle free upgrade unlike one other Review submission - I have also not found the slow running commented on by others which given I am using the lower end of the Apple range,... more info
Decent upgrade, but released too soon I've been using Leopard for the best part of a month, so now it's starting to settle in.
The good - Time Machine is a useful back up tool, combined with either SuperDuper or Carbon Cloner gives you a bootable backup and a file backup which will protect you from any kind of local disaster (you'll need off site backup for fire, theft and flood though). Quick look is handy and spotlight has been improved. Stacks prevents your desktop from getting clogged up with files. The bad - system stability... more info
