Leopard installed
20 Nov 2007 01:30 AM Filed in:
apple
Well, I am finally done with upgrading
both my MacBook Pro and my Mac Pro to Leopard. While the MBP
upgrade went fairly well, I did have some problems with the Mac
Pro. Not with the install, but with my personal account. X11 would
not work at all. This is not good, but then again, it is not
surprising since I have been upgrading and transferring my account
since Mac OS X 10.1. So, I bit the bullet and went ahead with a
fresh install and just moved over my files a bit at a time. I met
with success and now am running 10.5 on all of my personal
machines.
My only real complaint is with X11. It is still not working as well as it should and because of that fact, I will not be updating the student labs for a while. X11 is an important part of how the Apple machines are used by the students when connecting to the various linux machines in the department. I will be following the development of X11 and sending my feedback back to Apple.
Most of my other problems are more of a personal nature. Like many others, I am at a loss as to why Apple got rid of some features from previous releases of OS X. I really do not like that I cannot turn off the sidebar. I hate the opaque menu bar. I dislike the 3D dock.
What do I like. Well, NFS seems to perform better. Time Machine so far has worked well for me. I love the calendar integration with Mail making it very easy to add items to the calendar from mail. Spotlight seems to perform better as well. I finally have my virtual desktop via Spaces. What I would love to see next is that each desktop be allowed to have a different background and possibly a different screen resolution.
As I play around more with Leopard, I will be posting my opinions and comments.
mjl
My only real complaint is with X11. It is still not working as well as it should and because of that fact, I will not be updating the student labs for a while. X11 is an important part of how the Apple machines are used by the students when connecting to the various linux machines in the department. I will be following the development of X11 and sending my feedback back to Apple.
Most of my other problems are more of a personal nature. Like many others, I am at a loss as to why Apple got rid of some features from previous releases of OS X. I really do not like that I cannot turn off the sidebar. I hate the opaque menu bar. I dislike the 3D dock.
What do I like. Well, NFS seems to perform better. Time Machine so far has worked well for me. I love the calendar integration with Mail making it very easy to add items to the calendar from mail. Spotlight seems to perform better as well. I finally have my virtual desktop via Spaces. What I would love to see next is that each desktop be allowed to have a different background and possibly a different screen resolution.
As I play around more with Leopard, I will be posting my opinions and comments.
mjl