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| From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $98.00
You Save: $31.99 (25%)
New (33) Used (11) from $82.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  391 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Macintosh
Color: 1-user
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 165.6 x 160.8 x 21.6
MPN: MB576Z/A
Model: MB576Z/A
UPC: 885909167876
EAN: 0885909240388
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Horrible poorly conceived product October 30, 2007
10 out of 37 found this review helpful
Leopard, Apples new operating system for the Mac platform is a terrible waste of time and money unless you own an Intel Mac. On a G5 desktop it is full of bugs and crashes constantly. Worst product ever from Apple. Do not buy this if your Mac is not Intel. My machine is now in shambles and Apple's tech support is terrible. Buyer beware!!
 Purchase through Amazon NOT Apple! October 30, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Not only is Amazon's price $20 less... but from years of experience with Amazon they will get it to you much more quickly (unless of course you pick it up in person). I say this because even though I was told by Apple that I should have already received Leopard... according to FedEx (which I paid $10 for) I will not receive it until this Thursday! And it's being sent from Pennsylvania though I live in California!!! Buy it from Amazon... do yourself a favor. I know from now on I certainly will.
A great new polish on the already amazing OS October 30, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Mac OS X Leopard isn't anything new. There aren't any mind-blowing features or earth-shattering new applications. However, it is still an amazing piece of software which makes the OS X system work even better, look even nicer, and creates an overall more user-friendly environment.
10.5, like all of the OS X updates, adds another coat of turtle wax and polish to the Mac platform. The new Dock, Menu Bar, and Finder come together to create a seamless system which works around the user to make browsing fun. Taking notes from iTunes, the new Finder implements its own version of Coverflow to allow easy viewing of pictures, notes, documents, and other visually-based files.
There are plenty of other features that Leopard has, such as Stacks, the critically-acclaimed Time Machine, and the new iChat, but the basic idea is this - if you enjoyed what Tiger had to offer, Leopard will give you new features and an overall smoother interface.
Yes - yes, and Yes! October 30, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A few questions keep coming up - here are my answers:
Is the new OS easy to install? Yes! I did the in place install, left the DVD in my Mac Mini for 1 hr 15 min.
and when I came back, Leopard was running my machine. Could not have been easier. All my applications where I left them, email accounts now safely installed in the new Mail software.
Did all my applications work after the upgrade? Yes!
With one notable exception. Extensis Suitcase Fusion generated some system issues when I launched Photoshop CS3 - turning Suitcase off resolved the problem.
Was the upgrade worth the expense? Yes!
I've already started seeing the payoff in the dock - Stacks work beautifully for getting rid of the clutter in my Dock - the upgrades to Spotlight are nothing short of amazing - it took my Mac about 6 hours to sort through the 6 terabytes of memory - an now everything is instantly searchable - the 'coverflow' view makes searching for files a pleasure, and the ability to preview items without opening their applications is a stroke of genius. And in spaces, I now have dedicated graphics and audio recording workstations to retreat to.
I find that Leopard multitasks better, operates my Mac Mini smoothly and without hiccups, and so far has been utterly stable. No crashes in three days of use!
I couldn't be happier with this new OS. Bravo Apple!
 Wait for the First Update **UPDATED** 11-19 October 29, 2007
125 out of 138 found this review helpful
There is a ton of potential here with Leopard, including some very nice new features that makes the Mac even better. The only problem is that the bugs in this first release are so annoying and problematic that I've wasted more time trying to work out the kinks than being productive. Going from the stability of Tiger to this has been a huge dissapointment.
My advice is to hold off a bit until they get some of these issues worked out. Here are a list of the problems I am experiencing on both my Mac Pro and Macbook (other Mac owners are reporting similar problems on their machines):
1. Desktop freezing - both machines frequently have their desktops freeze up, making them inaccessible. The solution is to change the screen resolution to a lower setting and back. **Since the 10.5.1 update I have not experienced additional desktop freezing issues**
2. Installation woes - Leopard's upgrade disc did not recognize my Mac Pro's system drive initially, I had to run one of the programs on the installation disc in order to get it to pop up for the install.
3. Font problems - If you do a lot of graphic design work and are continually receiving fonts along with a Quark or Adobe inDesign document, definitely hold off on upgrading. A few current projects that opened up fine in Tiger simply don't recognize the fonts under Leopard.
4. Back to My Mac - This for me was I upgraded.. Sadly it just doesn't work and likely won't for most of us. Checking through online discussion boards many other folks are equally frustrated in trying to get this thing to work. Apple has recently posted a message indicating that expanded support for third party routers is "coming soon." Huge oversight to be hyping a feature that will only work for those with a $180 Apple router. Similar PC products like Hamachi work flawlessly, there's simply no excuse for this. *** Since the 10.5.1 update Back to My Mac is working MUCH better, including a recent stay at a hotel. I'd say a bulk of the problems described above have been fixed.**
5. Spaces - this great virtual desktop application is plagued by sucking applications into 'limbo' and occasionally cycles through the available desktops randomly when some apps display warnings.
6. Video glitches - The display on my Mac Pro (running an ATI x1900XT) often gets lines of gibberish streaking through the display. Others are reporting similar issues. **UPDATE: Leopard taxes video hardware significantly more than prior releases of OS X. X1900XT cards on the Mac Pro are experiencing an issue with dust building up on the heat sink which is blocking airflow and overheating the card. Vacuuming out the heat sink has improved the problem for me.
7. The new "Dock" is horrid.. The 3D "glass" effect makes it difficult to see which applications are currently loaded. Thankfully a simple terminal command can remove the fancy effects and make it a bit more manageable.
8. Time Machine works as advertised with an external drive attached to a USB or firewire port. Getting it to work over a network with a Macbook is another story.. It will recognize internal drives on a networked machine, but external drives attached to that same networked computer are hit or miss.
Are any of these show stoppers? With the exception of the font issue, probably not. But if your system is running reliably with Tiger, I'd hold off a bit until Apple gets some of these issues worked out and releases their first round of updates.
Clearly the development team struggled getting this out the door, and it shows. Definitely the most disappointing Apple product I've purchased in quite some time.
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