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cybertect said:
From the more corporate angle, I'm looking forward to multi-user calendaring and delegation in iCal with the Server edition of 10.5 and the inclusion of a Wiki with OS X server
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Yeah. The server version is really impressive. Things like its built in iChat server should also help make it attractive. What's really nice is the two levels at which you can set server up - there's an utterly simple way of doing it (click a few buttons simple) for people who don't want to learn to be technical geniuses, but you can also get behind that for more advanced set-up. Also the TIme Machine thing - this can back up the server, or you can automate creating back-ups of the machines you are serving. It's impressive, I think - potentially more impressive than the actual desktop OS. There's bound to be a new Xserve waiting quietly in the wings to exploit the new features.
 
rocketman said:
While it's set to ship on October 26, unless you have a stark reason to upgrade immediately, I urge caution, as these are the problems I hear existed at least as of 2pm yesterday:

1. iMovie doesn't work.
2. Pages doesn't work.
3. iChat keeps skipping out.

There are questions as to support for older applications, particularly iMovie HD, which apparently seems close to working.

Not to say the OS isn't going to be fantastic - it has a lot going for it, but this development is going to the wire (no gold master yet, AFAIK), so that implies some unexpected SNAFU's are likely to emerge once it ships.

Take a week to see what happens.
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It's not known which non-apple apps you use yourself will still work either, I'd wait for a while, I know my Cinema4d will need an update to work.
 
How much do these usually run at? I'll be a first-time upgrader too, my Tiger obviously came pre-installed on my imac when I got it.
 
It will be £85. £58 if you can get university discount
Although I'm lead to believe that apple aren't anywhere near as bad as microsoft for enforcing 'evaluation versions' cough cough (there's that cold again)
 
Just bought a MacBook, boosted the RAM to the max 2GB, just wondering how much of a performance impact it would have on my machine. Quite happy with the Tiger OS at the moment...
 
Going on past record, new releases of OSX tend to perform better than their forerunners.
 
Apple employees are like the Agents in the Matrix, all identi-kit, black polos and hairy arms. I bet he had on giant trainers too.
 
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Structaural said:
smaller updates to Leopard:

16 features

I like number 4 for guests/babysitters/etc
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Hah - #1 is a little embarrassing for MS. Pages can already read DOCX, and now TextEdit, when there _still_ isn't an Office for Mac that reads them natively.
 
heh... and I was using Numbers the other day to sort out some Excel files my girlfriend had - they opened without hassle.

Office is moving at it's usual speed, nearly two years out of date. What is it with Microsoft? One of the largest companies, moves the slowest...
 
i called apple today, and was told that leopard wont ship pre-installed on new machines for a while.

so wanting to cash in on the education offer of a free 4gb nano i ordered my macbook today. to upgrade to leopard is £5.95. "not too much of a scame then" i said to the guy on the phone, i'll happily pay that for leopard, a fiver, when you've bought a new laptop i can bear with when im getting 85 back for the nano. cunning apple....

can't wait for it!
 
It doesn't come out until 6pm tonight, although I'm gonna wait probably till Monday to get a copy.
 
I pre-ordered it and it should have arrived this morning. Unfortunately, TNT say it's been "damaged in transit". Which means I won't get it until next week, and I'm in the office on Monday and Tuesday, so it's Wednesday.

I was thinking of cancelling the order and going out to buy it retail, but then I thought:

(a) "they'll probably sell out"
(b) "I hate fighting through Oxford Street on a Saturday"
(c) "Jesus Christ man, don't be such a fucking Apple geek, it's only a piece of fucking software you sad excuse for a human being"
 
Oh how the world has changed. There was a *huge* scrum of fanboys (and girls) blocking Regent Street outside the Apple store on my way home tonight waiting to get their hands on a new OS.

Jeez, getalife!
 
I have it running.

Coverflow for documents is VERY useful. Sparrow (and anyone else who does research/essay writing) will find it invaluable for finding that paper you downloaded but can't remember what it's called, but you can remember what the front page looked like. Things catch your eye - much more than thumbnails would.

Installation was a breeze, but I have a disk image of my 10.4 install backed up on external drive just in case...
 
dogmatique said:
Oh how the world has changed. There was a *huge* scrum of fanboys (and girls) blocking Regent Street outside the Apple store on my way home tonight waiting to get their hands on a new OS.

Jeez, getalife!
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That's not new. People queued up for Windows 98.
 
Fanboys, a perennial problem.

Incidentally I've heard of quite a few Leopard issues so far, which I'm saving up to make me feel better about not getting it when I was fucking supposed to.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Fanboys, a perennial problem.

Incidentally I've heard of quite a few Leopard issues so far, which I'm saving up to make me feel better about not getting it when I was fucking supposed to.
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Yeah, postal workers are really pissed off at the moment. IMHO it's not so much the inevitable faults which will be so likely to pop up that is a problem, as the speed with which they are addressed, so I'll be watching that most.
 
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