Apple let go of the leash on Lepoard a bit early
Nov 26/2007
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Was the long awaited release of Apple's new and improved OSX, Leopard, a bit pre-mature? Mediocre reviews seem to back up my answer with facts quite nicely.
From Tom's Guide:
"In Leopard, when Finder moves a file from one drive to another, it deletes the file from the originating hard drive, without first checking to see if the file arrived safely on the destination hard drive. If anything goes wrong during the file transfer, such as a momentary power glitch on the destination hard drive, the file would then be destroyed on both hard drives."
I've been a mac user for about a year but still very loyal to my PC at home considering the price different of upgrades, maintainence costs, and compatibility with software. Since the release of Leopard, there have been a lot of bugs (and fixes) with anything from iCal to Finder.
Hey Apple, guess what! It doesn't always, "just work".
I don't think the OS claims to be perfect... I know I wouldn't say it is. But after years of using a Mac, I would say that it does seem to "just work". I actually get to spend my time developing creative things rather then spending time getting a pathetic Windows machine to just open the file I was hoping to work with.
And there's always going to be a development transition for any new OS. Maybe you could spend your next 20 blogs talking about all the problems that Vista has had.
Come on Steve, let's be a little less predictable. :)
...please don't block my IP. *fingers crossed*
I would never claim an OS to be perfect weither it be any "flavour" of windows, linux, osx, etc. Now, OSX doesn't always "just work":
It doesn't always "just work" when you try running firefox and your cursor beachballs for a couple minutes.
It doesn't always "just work" when trying to run Photoshop and Illustrator at the same time and you recieve random errors/program crashing.
It doesn't always "just work" when your CPU get's too hot because there is no ventilation in the case, or because Apple didn't know how to properly mount thermal creme on your CPU's.
I'm not denying that there aren't any transitions from moving from one OS to the next, I've had my fair-share of working with different variants of Linux over the years. But you know, OSX is pretty intuitive so I wouldn't have to be too worried, right?
I bet I could write 20 or more blogs about how Vista sucks. Definately not denying that. But how can a company proclaim such a strong statement about their machines when they don't always "just work"?
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