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Leopard Spotted

By James Gaskin on Fri, 10/26/07 - 10:28am.
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PCWorld has a good early review about the fifth major update to Mac OS X called Leopard. Regardless of operating system features, Another article from MacWorld talks about ten of the overlooked gems in the new operating system.

I think the Tiger and Leopard names work better than XP and Vista. Do companies have "naming engineers" on staff, or are there name consultants out in Silicon Valley?

If you already have Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.5, tell everyone which new features thrill you the most, and which features you consider a waste of disk space. No OS Wars, please, just reports from the field.

Prepare for a big batch of OS War articles, however, since we now have Vista, Leopard, and the latest Ubuntu release, 7.10, to compare. I just received Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva 2008, and SuSE 10.3 to play with, and I'll let you know which I like best.

For the price sensitive, Vista runs from "free" on new PCs to $399 depending on the version. while Leopard costs $129. The Linux versions can be downloaded for free, although I ordered CDs from OSDisc.com for $1.95 per CD.

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