Apple sells 2 million copies of Leopard since Friday

I thought people would find the recent unfavorable review by a software expert on Leopard interesting.

http://www.brighthub.com/review/Apple/Brian-Ricks-MVP/article/331.html

@41: Good to know. My 24" iMac had iLife 06 already on it. It is part of the Tiger reinstall cd's that came with my computer (I don't have any separate install cd's for iLife 06) so I would have to say it was bundled.

Its just the nature of software that when you change a lot of stuff, you get new bugs that need to be fixed. You fix them all and then you change a lot again. Probably a lot of people who are not excited about the new stuff should wait till 10.5.2. Then again, having TimeMachine kinda makes the minor nits with Leopard worth it.

I believe Tiger actually came out on April 29th...not the 30th.

Adrenalin, iLife 06 did not come with Tiger.

iLife has always been sold separately from the OS, from day one. The only reason you would have gotten it at the same time as Tiger is if you paid for both or if you got a new Mac that already had both installed. There has never been a bundle, and I doubt there ever will be.

Leopard is about as solid as Lava Rock. It's the most rushed and bug-infested OS Apple have ever released in the 10.x series.

Anyone who tests it professionally will tell you the same thing.

Try booting Leopard off a clean install to an external drive and let it see your Tiger volumes.

Now boot back to Tiger. Wow, notice Spotlight is reindexing? Not so bad, right? Let it finish.

Now try searching for something. Now something else. Go search in Mail and use the "Entire Message" option.

Have fun fixing Spotlight. Tip: you have to use mdimport in terminal to manually import your drives as no amount of deleting spotlight indexes nor disabling and re-enabling Spotlight will get it to work properly automatically.

Try the ACL features of the Get Info window. Crashes every time for me on a PPC machine when pressing the "+" button.

RE: #15""15. It's ironic that with a clean install of Leopard, using Bootcamp with Vista, I'm having more issues with Leopard than I am with Windows. For example, disconnecting removable drives takes forever in Leopard. So does mounting a DVD. And for some reason the keyboard lighting on my MacBookPro is really flaky, when it was fine w/Tiger. I have the same iChat issues reported in previous posts. Also, what's up with the ugly, flat grey icons in Leopard? Coverflow blows me away, but when I browse through my apps and see all those gross icons, it makes me sad. Where'd all the colorful ones go?""


Weird, i don't have any problems with removing external drives or mounting DVD's..

People buying Leopard doesn't mean people like Leopard. I've just installed it on my PowerBook and have put it away in frustration and am back enjoying Tiger on my iMac. Safari was mega-slow, the Dock looked like garbage unless it was on one of the sides, changing the brightness of my screen crashed the OS, the Finder is too slow when using coverflow, there is no spinning confirmation thingie when picking up new mail, can't use the Print function in Lightroom, the bar at the top of the screen is crappily see-through, my wi-fi keeps dropping and by then I'd turned it off.

I've got a 24" imac (classic) and upgraded to Leper. Even with 3Gb of ram Leper is not as visually smooth as Tigger was... annoying!

13. "Also PLEASE make the distinction between APPS that COME with Leopard, and Leopard itself. Because a glitch in iChat is most certainly NOT a glitch in Leopard. Leopard is solid as a rock."

How is this for a glitch....it is to the point that even if I choose to run the "chess" application, all I get is a white screen. Also, I understand that iLife 08 is not included with Leopard (not sure why that is since iLife06 was included with Tiger) I would have expected they would have completely tested there own apps with Leopard, at least more than they did. Both iPhoto 08 and latest version of Aperature are very buggy with Leopard and I am not the only one to notice this. I simply cannot select my photo directory and import it (over 6,000 photos). Both apps eventually just hang (ya, let it run overnight). Reinstall Tiger and within an hour all my photos import with no issues. At this point in my life that is more important than getting WoW to work, which I haven't bothered trying yet.