my machine is too old to run leopard

 

The things that are jumping out to me so far are the integration between Time Machine and Spotlight, data detectors in Mail, and the on-demand guest accounts.

 

http://www.apple.com/macosx/guidedtour/

Guided tour of Leopard and I can't wait!

I gotta say I love Vista and Mac OSX, vista mostly for compatability. I have older printers and scanners in my house and its a bitch trying to find the drivers for them on Mac side, I am sure they are out there but its a Pain to try to find someone who hosts it. I plug mine into the vista side of my Pro and it starts right up.

Another thing someone might be able to help me with. All of my media is on an SMB windows share and every time I close my macbook lid I have to go in and reconnect to them. Vista on the other hand I have virtual drives setup and as long as I am connected to the network they are fine. I am also sure there is a resolution for this in mac...just haven't gotten around to looking.

 

Billiam pretty much nailed it; integration. Seems that Apple took care in developing Leopard around the thought of integration. For example, the Time Machine hooks are integrated right into Mail, Address Book, etc. Search across netowrked drives with Quick Look.

The video really shows some neat new things.

 

What sucks is that to back up to a remte computer using Time Machine, the remote computer much be running Leopard. And my G4 that I'm going to be replacing isn't supported.

So... It's either hope someone can hack the installer to get past the processor check, or spend $170 and get a 1GHZ G4 processor and swap out.

fawk

 

or just ditch that old POS altogether and get something shiny and new

 

I'm already going to be plunking down $2k for an iMac.

From what I can gather, I should be able to get it to work on my G4. Likely it will be able to be installed via Target Disk Mode from another PPC Mac. My Dad has a mini.

Should be OK.

 

I just bought a 24" iMac in August...I'll probably end up buying the leopard update....after its been out a month or two.

 

So no more Boot Camp beta... They are forcing users to upgrade if they dual boot...

http://www.crn.com/software/202600797

 

i think if you already have boot camp, you are fine. You just can't download it for free anymore.

 

My understanding for current Bootcamp-on-Tiger users is:

A) Everything you have set up will continue to function
B) You can't add any new partitions or edit existing ones
C) There will be no more driver updates

 

Macs are nothing but over-priced PC's so this pool is kinda silly IMO.