Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
Posted By iba03 on February 9, 2012
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Create Stacks from anything to access quickly in one place.
Enjoy a gorgeous new look and organize your files in Stacks.
Desktop. A neat place to work. From the menu bar to the stunning new Dock, the Leopard desktop isn’t just about design. It’s about enjoying the time you spend on your computer and getting more out of it.
An eye-opening experience. Start from the top. The menu bar hovers transparently above your workspace, letting the desktop image–perhaps a favorite from your iPhoto library–take center stage. Dock icons rest on a reflective floor with a bright active application signal. And the look of Leopard extends to all applications: Every window has a consistent design theme, and active applications are even more distinct, casting deeper shadows.
Stacked in your favor. Take a look at your desktop. Is it cluttered with files you downloaded or saved there (somewhat less than) temporarily? You’re not alone. Everybody does it. Time to clean house with Stacks–a brand-new feature in Leopard. Create Stacks from anything you want to access quickly from one place: a handful of documents, a group of applications, an entire folder. Files you download in Safari or save from an email are automatically directed to a Stack in the Dock, and when the download is complete, the Stack signals that a new item has arrived. When you want to see the files in a Stack, all you have to do is click–Stacks spring open from the Dock in an elegant arc for a few items, or in an at-a-glance grid for more. Pretty neat.
Browse your files like you browse your music with Cover Flow. Finder. Give your files the rock star treatment. Imagine if browsing the files on your Mac was as easy as browsing music in iTunes. That’s the idea behind the new Finder in Leopard. Now you can access everything on your system from an iTunes-style sidebar and flip through your files using Cover Flow. 
Grouped sidebar items help you find what you need fast.
The sidebar steps up. Leopard brings new power to your old friend, the sidebar. Now items are grouped into categories: places, devices, shared computers, and searches–just like the Source list in iTunes. So with a single click, you’re on your way to finding what you need.
See what you seek. Bring your files to life with Cover Flow in the Finder. Just as you use Cover Flow to flip through album art in iTunes, now you can use it to flip through your files. Cover Flow displays each file as a large preview of its first page. And you can page through multipage documents or play movies.
Search party. Stop looking and start finding with Cover Flow and Spotlight. Click a prebuilt search like “yesterday” or “all images” in the sidebar and Cover Flow displays your search results in the perfect at-a-glance format. Leopard comes with a number of helpful prebuilt searches, but it’s easy to create your own customized searches as well.
Closer connections. With shared computers automatically displayed in the sidebar, it’s far easier to find or access files on any computer in your house, whether Mac or PC. All it takes is a click. But here’s where things get really interesting. By clicking on a connected Mac, you can see and control that computer (if authorized, of course) as if you were sitting in front of it. You can even search all the computers in the house to find what you’re looking for.
And now, back to my Mac. Ever need something on your Mac when you were thousands of miles from home? With Back to My Mac and a .Mac account, you can connect to any of your Macs at home from any Mac on the Internet. Your home computers will appear in the shared section of the sidebar just as they do when you’re in the living room. 
Improved spotlight searches.
Look deeper. From the Finder or the menu bar, Spotlight in Leopard lets you search for more specific sets of things. Use Boolean logic to narrow search results by entering “AND,” “OR,” or “NOT” into a search request. You can also search for exact phrases (using quotation marks), dates, ranges (using greater than [>] and less than [
This review is from: Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard (OLD VERSION) (Software)
First, an important message: When installing, make sure to SKIP the Disk Verification process…otherwise you will waste about 45 minutes for nothing.
I installed the Leopard upgrade on my first-generation Macbook Core Duo 1.83ghz with 2gb of RAM and a 60gb HD. The installation went smoothly, taking about 40-45 minutes to do so. When I started Leopard for the first time, all my files were intact as before and all my applications worked great as well. There were two items that did not work: an isync plug-in for my Sony Ericsson phone, but reinstalling the plug-in fixed that; and a widget for gas prices does not work, with no fix yet. I also had Windows XP installed via boot-camp; there were no changes made to that and it is also working fine. The manual says to insert the Leopard disc in Windows so that it will upgrade the drivers.
I tried out time machine; it took about an hour to back up about 38gb worth of files to a USB 2.0 external drive. Photobooth’s new backgrounds are fun to play with, but they work well only if your background is a plain wall with no objects behind you. If there are objects, then they tend to distort the background; not very pretty, needless to say. Another feature that is greatly improved is the Wifi networks menu in the menu bar; now you can finally tell which networks are WPA/WEP secured thanks to a padlock icon. Also, the menus seem to be faster when clicked; there doesn’t seem to be a lag anymore as was apparent with Tiger. Spaces is a very nice feature to organize the “clutter” of different programs open at one time. Make sure to learn the CTRL- shortcut keys to get the maximum benefit from Spaces.
Finally, the only serious bug I’ve noticed is that my Macbook seems to be running much warmer than with Tiger. The average CPU temperature with Tiger was about 120 degrees F with a fan speed of 1500 RPM. With Leopard, the average seems to be around 170 degrees F and a fan speed of 2400 RPM. The keyboard also feels noticeably warmer to the touch. I’m hoping Apple will release a fix for that.
Otherwise, Leopard is a great buy and is definitely worth the money. I highly recommend getting it if you love your Mac; Leopard will make you love it more.
EDIT: The 10.5.1 update has resolved the fan issue. The CPU is now running closer to 140 degrees F but the fan speed runs around 1500 RPM again when idle.
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