More Vista-bashing commercials appeared yesterday, compliments of quite possibly the most arrogant company in history. I love a good spoof (I had a good laugh over the first “cancel/allow” ad), but when you keep spewing the same false bullshit over and over it becomes obnoxious. It also shows me a company full of people and users that have a serious inferiority complex.
Let us just review the reviews of their latest release shall we???
*notes before we start:
– These are just the tip of the iceberg, the web is full of stories just like this…
– Karma is a bitch ain’t it Apple???
Dreaded Blue Screen of Death mars some Leopard installs
Apple support drones are getting an earful from Mac users who are getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death while trying to update to the latest and greatest version of OS X…We can only hope the normally smug Mac Guy is duly red-faced. After all, aren’t BSODs, botched installs and kludgy fixes the stuff of the inferior OS to Cupertino’s North?
I’m not happy with Leopard
I’ve given Leopard a chance, but it’s pretty clear, this is not a good operating system release…It’s that unpleasant to use. It disappears for long periods of time. Systems that didn’t used to crash now crash regularly. On one system three hard disks were rendered unusable… The user interface is quirky. The new networking interface is a big step backward. The firewall moved and lost features!
Why Leopard Isn’t Better than Vista
What’s bugging me about Leopard is what bugged me about Vista eight months ago:
* Feature or UI changes made without really good reasons* Application compatibility problems
* Diminished performance compared to the predecessor operating system
* Irksome sense the software shipped before being really ready
Like Microsoft, Apple has added new and annoying security prompts to the operating system…got a warning popup asking if I really wanted to open this application…already I’m thinking about switching the MacBook Pro back to Tiger. Isn’t that a story told and retold about Vista, where people went back to XP?
Leopard Time Machine: Don’t trust it yet
With more than 100 posts, the Time Machine Errors thread on Apple Discussions keeps growing. The complaints fall into three categories: Time Machine won’t complete its initial backup; it won’t complete a subsequent backup; and worst of all, it won’t complete a restoration of a file or drive.
Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard
Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.
Rotten Apple: Leopard
I have never heard so many complaints about a Mac OS upgrade…the firewall is more of a picket fence with an unlocked gate than a true security barrier. The firewall turns itself off by default on installation. Whose bright idea was that?…If you attempt to move, instead of copy, a file from one network volume to another, or just from one volume to another on your hard drive, and the transfer is interrupted for any reason, both the original and new file will be destroyed…It turns out that if you max out your Wi-Fi connection, your bandwidth will start dropping… and dropping… and eventually your network connection will start failing.
Weak spots found in Apple’s Leopard
Computer owners installing Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, may be making their machines less secure, according to experts.
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