First major reviews of Leopard hit the streets: NYT, WSJ and USAToday

The big three geekmeisters have been released from their embargoes and the first Leopard newspaper reviews are out tonight. Uncle Walt even favored us with a cheery video rundown that appears to have been filmed in his rumpus room. A brief summary:

David Pogue from the New York Times: "powerful, polished and carefully conceived." The respected Mac writer gives big points to Time Machine and Quick Look, while skeptically eyeing some lesser additions to the list of 300 (Danish ~~localization~~ spell checking comes in for Pogueian scorn).
Edward Baig at USAToday: "Apple's operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically... Leopard is one cool cat." Baig gives a pretty comprehensive rundown on new Leopard features and notes some hiccups with Back to my Mac vs. network firewalls.
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and allthingsd.com: "Evolutionary, not revolutionary... I think it's better than Vista." The headline says it all: Faster, Easier than Vista. Walt took the time to go through scores of features and even do some startup timing tests with a Vaio (the Mac came out well ahead). He also noted a couple of neat features, such as Google Talk support in iChat and instant access to shared folders on Windows machines.

For those about to upgrade, we salute you, and we quote Mr. Mossberg on the topic of upward compatibility:

[E]very piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped Macs - a loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMac - worked fine, exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista. My old Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer, for which Vista lacks the proper software, worked instantly in Leopard, even over the network. And, unlike with Vista, it was able to print on both sides of the page. I popped my old Verizon cellphone modem card into the test Leopard laptop and it worked, too, with no software installation or tweaking.

Your mileage will almost certainly vary.

[via twitter/Joe Maller]

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Will

SiG-
It actually slows app performance, although, if implemented right, not too badly.

Um...actually, your mistaken. But thanks for playing the "Myths about Garbage Collection" Jeopardy Challenge today.

October 25 2007 at 5:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jay Lemons

What is up with even stating that it is better than Vista. Vista was compared to Tiger and Tiger won. Why would you even bother mentioning LEOPARD and Vista in the same breath?

October 25 2007 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lileks

#17: looks like Lyle from Achewood.com has finally found TUAW.

October 25 2007 at 4:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Deuz Augustine

I'm pretty sure "1337" lost all of its credibility quite a few years ago due to:

A) Everyone on the internet knowing it.
B) Megatokyo.com using it as a running gag.
C) Everyone realizing it was stupid as hell.

October 25 2007 at 4:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SjG

Uh.. h4xx0r? |>00d, you lose all 1337 credibility when you say something like "I'm looking forward to seeing what garbage dump does for apps..." when you mean "garbage collection."

And garbage collection won't speed performance. It speeds development. It actually slows app performance, although, if implemented right, not too badly.

October 25 2007 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Squuiid

"19. The USA Today page makes my Safari crash... which is a good thing in general, I suppose, but I was rather keen on reading this article."

LOL. Mine too. Have emailed the doofus.

October 25 2007 at 10:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johnny Thrash

I cannot WAIT for mine to get here... Friday... Friday... where are you?

October 25 2007 at 10:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matthew

Didn't someone warn WM that he would successfully sucked out all of the energy from Leopard with that video review. I'm not excited anymore (but, admittedly, I was only just a little excited to begin with).

October 25 2007 at 10:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tuaw

#17: I'm terribly sorry, old chap, I can't understand a word you're saying...

October 25 2007 at 6:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dut

Got it bitches and its fckn sweet will def b buying it when all the foroarer dies down ( i luvs da intraweb ) just could't help myself when it showed up on certain websites. I'm looking forward to seeing what garbage dump does for apps in lep when devs migrate to obj-c 2.0 and xtools which i think is the biggest leap with this release never mind all the fancy eye candy.

Superfast OS for old hardware please! FTW

h4xx0r

October 25 2007 at 6:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply