Comments on: Leopard’s shortcomings

By: Is Snow Leopard a train smash? « Leaves caution behind

Is Snow Leopard a train smash? « Leaves caution behind — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:53:51 +0000

[...] year ago I wrote a post entitled, “The Leopard downgrade”, expressing my disgust with OS 10.5 Leopard. (Principally, the Cupertino weasels ripped out Address [...]

By: Recurring events in Leopard iCal that refuse to be deleted « Leaves caution behind

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:00:40 +0000

[...] events in iCalI’ve charted my contempt and loathing for Mac OS X 10.5 Loathsome Leopard elsewhere, so won’t go into that again in too much detail, other than to note that I could probably [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:14 +0000

I am in the process of downgrading right now (transferring all 200GB of my data to an external HD as we speak). I really like Leopard, but it is just unusable on my iMac! I can seriously get Windows XP to boot up quicker than Leopard does. The feature list of Leopard looks so much better than in reality. I don’t mind change but Apple has really screwed up a lot of things with this release. For instance, I love the new Finder, although I hate how the Finder windows are freakishly small by default. I loathe the new Spotlight, so much so that I only use it if I absolutely have to. Then there’s all the software. Some new versions of apps are great, like Mail and Preview, but others have some major annoyances. Take iPhoto, Apple finally added a touch up feature to it but what’s with all the “Events?” I don’t organize my photos by events, so it’s annoying having tons of dates listed in the left pane of iPhoto and they have no relevance. Then there’s the pointless option in Safari of being able to add webpages to Dashboard, and let’s not forget the “green screen” feature of Photo Booth! I though making half baked, clunky products was Microsoft’s job.

By: Alex Betts

Alex Betts — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:59:17 +0000

Right on. I’ve too have been massively disappointed with Leopard, particularly the speed and stability issues – really very poor. I will be going through the tedious business of “downgrading” to Tiger when i can figure out how to do it safely. I’ve been particularly surprised by this poor OS as a long time mac user: in fairness, this is the first OS upgrade that’s taken things so clearly in the wrong direction. Admittedly the original OS X had some serious teething problems, but that was an altogether more ambitious step. These issues – and as you say, Leopard is riddled with them – are really inexcusable. The egregious stability issues, especially, after the dreamlike reliability of Tiger, are appalling. I guess we can only hope that the powers that be have noticed, and mistakes will be fixed and not made again. It sounds like this may be the case with the talk of a “no new features” Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Fingers crossed. Sadly i think they’ll now be quite a few of us who will be very skeptical about buying future “upgrades” from Apple.