07-14-2007, 07:05 PM

I was in the mall and some guy had his MBP with him while his wife was shopping and I was sitting around while my gf was shopping. So i started talking to him because I had just got my MBP and we were making small talk. He was the head of something for McGraw Hill and had a copy of Leopard installed on his mac. It was pretty much the same looking except for the bottom bar was 3d and looked like the icons were sitting on the bar not embedded in the bar, the top task bar was transparent and the finder, looked like iTunes. Other than that, thats all i saw and in his trial version, he couldnt get bluetooth to work. Also the verizon broadband access worked for his mbp too. I know most of this is on the apple site but it was cool seeing it live.

07-14-2007, 09:12 PM

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to upgrade to Leopard. I haven't seen anything that really has made me drool over it. We'll see, maybe I'm mistaken.

07-14-2007, 10:31 PM

Well.... I am definately waiting for Leopard. Why I would like to upgrade is-
- spaces
- time machine &
- quick view

Apparently they might look to be just the cosmetic additions but definately useful for me atleast

07-14-2007, 10:40 PM

Maybe time machine, sure.

07-14-2007, 11:01 PM

I wont upgrade unless i can get it from my school for liek 10 dollars.

Time Machine is the only thing i see that would make it worth getting and no matter what anybody says, although it is better it is still basically System Restore for windows.

07-15-2007, 04:25 AM

Originally Posted by Shannonb

I wont upgrade unless i can get it from my school for liek 10 dollars.

Time Machine is the only thing i see that would make it worth getting and no matter what anybody says, although it is better it is still basically System Restore for windows.

No it isn't, absolutely not. System Restore is a completely different thing, that snapshots your registry and configuration information - it doesn't back up your data files. If you're relying on System Restore to backup your data, you're in for disappointment.

AIUI Time Machine backs everything up, each time you change it.

07-15-2007, 04:29 AM

Originally Posted by knightlie

No it isn't, absolutely not. System Restore is a completely different thing, that snapshots your registry and configuration information - it doesn't back up your data files. If you're relying on System Restore to backup your data, you're in for disappointment.

AIUI Time Machine backs everything up, each time you change it.

Exactly. Good explanation. Virtual Rep to you.

System Restore is good to have but it's no Time Machine.

07-15-2007, 04:45 AM

As mentioned, System Restore is something different.

The Windows equivalent of Time Machine is Shadow Copy/Previous Versions.

07-15-2007, 06:47 AM

The new iSight features are pretty cool, I live in the UK and did Work Experience with someone who had Leopard, you guys may already know but you step out of the Webcams view and i takes a picture of your background and then you can apply all kinds of effects. You can make yourself Holographic and you can have moving backgrounds e.g. Penguins in the Antarctic

07-15-2007, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by Mit321

The new iSight features are pretty cool, I live in the UK and did Work Experience with someone who had Leopard, you guys may already know but you step out of the Webcams view and i takes a picture of your background and then you can apply all kinds of effects. You can make yourself Holographic and you can have moving backgrounds e.g. Penguins in the Antarctic

Yeah, and I thought PhotoBooth 10.4 was fun! There will be custom effects for Leopard! Imagine! There could be thousands of them in a few months!

07-15-2007, 10:33 AM

I might've not caught it, but I hope they're changing the Photo Booth picture customizations. I can't stand the ones now, seems like everyone uses it all the time -- it gets played out pretty quickly. But, most likely that'll happen to the newer ones that come out.

07-15-2007, 11:06 AM

i wont be waiting to get my mbp just because of leopard. i may upgrade in the future but not just yet.

07-15-2007, 11:40 AM

I'll upgrade, but not immediately. I like preview and the new Dock functionality.

I'll wait for Office 2008 though and then do a clean install, removing anything Rosetta based, which should see some temperature reductions and RAM freed up.

07-15-2007, 08:39 PM

But you can recover files using system restore. I've done it.

07-16-2007, 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by Shannonb

But you can recover files using system restore. I've done it.

Yes, system files. You won't find your My Documents folder in there.

Eta:

System Restore does not affect your personal data files (such as Microsoft Word documents, browsing history, drawings, favorites, or e-mail) so you won't lose changes made to these files.

From this Microsoft page. System Restore does not back up your data.