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October 30th, 2007

Did Apple Pull a Vista?

written by Steven Bristol

Leopard/Vista:

Similarities:

  • Both shipped late.
  • Both dropped features before shipping.
  • Both are buggier and less stable than their predecessors.

Differences:

  • Vista took WAAAYYYYY longer to ship than Leopard. And at least we got the iPhone as an excuse from Apple.
  • Leopard dropped relatively minor features. Vista dropped everything except the glass.
  • I don’t think I’ll be downgrading to Tiger, although a lot of people are downgrading to XP.

So no, I don’t think Apple pulled a Vista. But a few more slips and they might have.

What’s missing from Leopard:

  • In the betas Time Machine could backup over the network through an Air Port Extreme. Not in the final. This one is huge for me, I actually bought an upgraded Air Port Extreme just for this. It’s still unopened in the box and will be returned. Once Apple releases a patch, I’ll buy it again.
  • No Java 1.6. Not such a big deal for me, but Apple is way behind in JVMs. Until Shoes allows Ruby to replace Java, I think we should have the latest JVM.
  • Since Friday I have had about one freeze (forced restart) a day. Far from acceptable. I can hardly wait until the first update. Even my local Mac Genius said he never installs the new OS at his house until the first patch is out.

Over all I think Leopard is awesome. Since we all work remotely, the screen sharing in the new iChat alone, is worth the upgrade. I recommend everyone upgrade. Even with these problems I think it’s worth it.

2 Responses to “Did Apple Pull a Vista?”

  1. Kiere El-Shafie October 30th, 2007

    Ugh. Tell me about it. I was really hoping for the Time Machine to Airport Disk functionality. It would be incredibly convenient since it mounts that drive every time I open my laptop at home.

  2. Michael Christenson II November 3rd, 2007

    Steve, I’ve noticed no kernel panics or needs to force reboot the system because of Leopard. However, I have had one Kernel Panic.

    I’ve also noticed that certain 3rd party apps don’t take kindly to the HPFS+ Case Sensitive partitions. That’s what caused the kernel panic; loading parallels. Photoshop won’t take either.

    No Wireless backup? That’s extremely disappointing. But one of very few disappointments.

    All together I’m thrilled with this offering. The speed is 2-3 times faster, stability is far better than Tiger, all the most important dev stuff installed out of the box!

    This is no where near Vista flop. It’s very unfair of you to compare it to that. I think you just wanted to get this blog post seen. Well I saw it so I guess that worked.

    Also, stop monkeying around at the con. You’re not supposed to have fun ;).

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