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So I went to my local Apple store (Glasgow) on Thursday and picked up a copy of 10.5 along with a backup hard drive for Time Machine.
Didn't have the best experience in the store (was ignored by all staff for about 20 minutes even when I was waiting at the cash desk) so things weren't off to a good start.
My setup when I bought 10.5 was a Macbook with Boot Camp running XP SP2. Not because I'm not a fan of OS X, just because there is some software I use at University which simply doesn't run in OS X. The two main advantages of upgrading to 10.5 for me were A2DP (Bluetooth Stereo) and Windows Vista support.
Right from the start it didn't go too well. I had planned on wiping my XP partition, installing 10.5 and then using the new version of Boot Camp to install Vista. Unfortunately Boot Camp has expired so there was no way of wiping the partition that I was aware of. So I just decided to go ahead and install 10.5. To my surprise it was incapable of finding a partition to install onto, it didn't even detect my already-existing OS X partition. Ugh.
So I did a bit of surfing and found that I could change the date on my Macbook so that I could use Boot Camp again and therefore switch my disk back to one partition. After this was done I installed 10.5 without any real problems.
So I got started. It is a lot slower than 10.4, that's the first thing I noticed. Even going through finder can cause everything to grind to a halt, not very impressive.
So I cracked out my bluetooth headphones and really wasn't impressed. The sound is worse than the sound my phone delivers to it and it is very hard to actually get the music playing out of it and not just getting error messages.
Time machine seems cool. Really doubt that it will ever have been worth me buying a backup drive but you never know these days. All my music is backed up on my mp3 player I tend to be very careful with files that I am working with.
All the interface stuff is very superficial. The dock actually annoys me, in 10.4 I used a transparent dock and the arrows with active programs was more informative than little lights under programs.
Spaces? Meh, the exact same thing has been possible for years in Linux environments and I had an app that did it in 10.4. Same as the extra stuff with folders on the dock, was all available in 10.4 with a little work.
Boot Camp... works too well... I installed Vista extremely easily and the plug-ins on the disc are great, all the advantages of using a Macbook are available, the function buttons work a lot better than in the beta build.
I'd never used Vista before... but it's nice. I know it steals a lot from OS X but it does it well, a lot smoother than the current 10.5 build. Plus my headset works great with it.
I spent the last few months since I got my macbook (my first mac) growing to love OS X but I fear that 10.5 is going to push me to using Vista.
Didn't have the best experience in the store (was ignored by all staff for about 20 minutes even when I was waiting at the cash desk) so things weren't off to a good start.
My setup when I bought 10.5 was a Macbook with Boot Camp running XP SP2. Not because I'm not a fan of OS X, just because there is some software I use at University which simply doesn't run in OS X. The two main advantages of upgrading to 10.5 for me were A2DP (Bluetooth Stereo) and Windows Vista support.
Right from the start it didn't go too well. I had planned on wiping my XP partition, installing 10.5 and then using the new version of Boot Camp to install Vista. Unfortunately Boot Camp has expired so there was no way of wiping the partition that I was aware of. So I just decided to go ahead and install 10.5. To my surprise it was incapable of finding a partition to install onto, it didn't even detect my already-existing OS X partition. Ugh.
So I did a bit of surfing and found that I could change the date on my Macbook so that I could use Boot Camp again and therefore switch my disk back to one partition. After this was done I installed 10.5 without any real problems.
So I got started. It is a lot slower than 10.4, that's the first thing I noticed. Even going through finder can cause everything to grind to a halt, not very impressive.
So I cracked out my bluetooth headphones and really wasn't impressed. The sound is worse than the sound my phone delivers to it and it is very hard to actually get the music playing out of it and not just getting error messages.
Time machine seems cool. Really doubt that it will ever have been worth me buying a backup drive but you never know these days. All my music is backed up on my mp3 player I tend to be very careful with files that I am working with.
All the interface stuff is very superficial. The dock actually annoys me, in 10.4 I used a transparent dock and the arrows with active programs was more informative than little lights under programs.
Spaces? Meh, the exact same thing has been possible for years in Linux environments and I had an app that did it in 10.4. Same as the extra stuff with folders on the dock, was all available in 10.4 with a little work.
Boot Camp... works too well... I installed Vista extremely easily and the plug-ins on the disc are great, all the advantages of using a Macbook are available, the function buttons work a lot better than in the beta build.
I'd never used Vista before... but it's nice. I know it steals a lot from OS X but it does it well, a lot smoother than the current 10.5 build. Plus my headset works great with it.
I spent the last few months since I got my macbook (my first mac) growing to love OS X but I fear that 10.5 is going to push me to using Vista.