[DM-MUG] Leopard Review

[Victoria L. Herring]

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>Here's a link to a review of Leopard by PC Magazine
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><http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2207556,00.asp>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2207556,00.asp
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If you're in the market for a new machine, it's time to look 
seriously at a Mac, especially now that all Macs can run Windows 
along with OS X through the built-in Boot Camp feature that lets you 
install Windows and Leopard in separate partitions. Even better, 
third-party software from Parallels or Vmware make it possible to run 
a Windows program in a window on the OS X desktop. It's even possible 
to set up OS X so that Word documents automatically open in the 
Windows version of Microsoft Word. I'm going to wait until early 2008 
before buying a new Mac, however, because I want to use the 
Mac-native version of Microsoft Office in its forthcoming 2008 
version, and because I want to restrain my Leopard-envy until Apple 
releases an update or two.
If you're thinking of upgrading an existing Mac, I would definitely 
plan on doing exactly that, but, again, I plan to wait until early 
next year. If, like me, you still use one or two "Classic" 
applications on a Power PC-based Mac ("Classic" has never worked on 
newer Intel Macs), be warned that Leopard won't let you run Classic 
applications even on Power PC machines. My advice to potential 
upgraders is to find a cheap, bootable external hard disk (you 
probably already have one) and install Leopard on it, and use it to 
boot your existing Mac. I did this with my two-year-old Mac, and I've 
been able to experiment with my existing applications to find any 
incompatibilities so that I don't get any nasty surprises after an 
upgrade.
Leopard again raises the question of whether to switch from Windows 
to a Mac. I've found Vista to be a major disappointment that tends to 
look worse the more I use it. I still use Windows XP for getting 
serious work done. But OS X is easier to manage and maintain and I 
vastly prefer OS X to Windows for Web-browsing, mail, and especially 
for any task that involves graphics, music, or video. Leopard 
performs all such tasks even better than previous versions did-and 
Leopard is the only OS on the planet that works effortlessly and 
intuitively in today's world of networked computers and peripherals. 
Leopard is far from perfect, but it's better than any alternative, 
and it's getting harder and harder to find good reasons to use 
anything else.
-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
515/255-4475;  iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com;  Skype:  vlherring.
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