This weekend I have installed Leopard on my MacBook, as I have said before, I have been waiting for 10.5.2 update to install it and after 24 hours after installing I have to say it’s a stable operating system.

The installation took me 30 minutes to finish and the first boot was a bit slow but I think it’s normal, then the first thing I did is to update the leopard to 10.5.2, works fine here and then I had the Leopard 10.5.2 OTB (out the box).

The first boot told me if I wanted my external drive as a Time Machine drive but I said no because I have a poor free size, so I’ll wait to free some space to try Time Machine. When all goes fine was time to install some apps, the most important or the apps I recommend are:

• Onyx: Repair permissions, improve the health of operating systems used periodically. Visit here.
• Growl: Notifications of all the events in the apps installed. Visit here.

What I like of Leopard is the new stacks, I have all my apps or movies in the dock and I can explore them when I want. With Quick Look is so easy to show your photos or make a presentation. Spaces, I have to say I come from Linux and always had more than one desktop, bring it to Leopard are perfect for me!

What I don’t like are a little bugs Leopard still have and specially the software that are trying to adapt the code to the “new” OS, like GrowlMail or Azureus, I have to say that GrowlMail isn’t compatible with Leopard but I got some crashes from these two apps. What I’m really worried about, is from the crashes of Mail, when sync with my imap server I got two crashes but seems fine now and I don’t get it anymore.

For now it’s all I can say, after 24 hours I think is a poor analysis but enough for the small time I have tried.

The opinion of the users about the last Leopard update 10.5.2 are a bit confusing, resolved but new bugs too are coming with this version.

There are many bugs resolved and the best, is that Apple seems to hear their customers. One of the first complaints was the new feature stacks and the missing folder list in it, a more common view of the stacks like a contextual menu:

The next feature is the new finder icon of Time Machine shich let the user make the backup almost instantly or check the last backup done.

And in my opinion, the best feature Apple could do, activate or deactivate the translucent menu bar. The ‘new’ translucent menu bar was the most feature discussed around the web with a lot of complaints, too many for Apple and the developers though is better the optional way.

And the last most remarkable new feature, share optic unit to support the new Macbook Air lack of CD/DVD.

But not all are good news, as always the new software fixes bugs but do new too, and the 10.5.2 update comes with a new bugs like problems starting up, Mail.app, wifi, trackpad, mice… you can find a list of this bugs in MacFixit, here and here.

The images over these lines are from ArsTechnica and its analysis.

Apple just releases the very expected update for Mac OS X Leopard.  This is a very large update which size it’s 341Mb and fixes a lot of changes, 180+.

In my opinion this is the real Mac OS X Leopard, the OS that Steve Jobs wanted to release as the first version but it isn’t because another delay would be horrible to the comapny image and the shares… so he prefered sell an unfinished OS and shut up some people than sell this final version that sees the light today.

I was waiting for this update since Leopard is out to install it, I had readed some critiques about Leopard and I’d prefer to wait until a very large update comes… and here it is, this weekend I’m going to install Leopard on my Macbook and update to 10.5.2…