Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard

this sounds like a great product, however, I have doubts about boot camp. mainly, will I be able to run assassin's creed using boot camp? click yes if you think i can.

The necessity for this product on 4+ year old MACs seems to be Bill Gates' retirement parting shot to Steve Jobs
and all Apple users. Just after Gates announced his retirement, my MAC (and that of several of my friends) could no longer do what it had been doing for years (get Hotmail, attach and forward data, etc.), and told us to "upgrade your browser". So, we drove 50 miles to the nearest Apple Store, which told us to go to Best Buy or Amazon (to buy a product that says, "made at Apple in California" on its box cover). Then, the installation instructions were generic, so we had to hire a consultant to install it on the different models... Now I fully understand why Gates and Jobs get to retire long before me -- the next time Apple and Microsoft pull this scam, I'm cutting everyone out of my life who can't remember how to use snail mail --(Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard)

This is by far the worst upgrade yet. I bought the most recent 10.5.4 and installed it a few days ago on my G5. It installed fine, including the X-tools. After having almost 10 years of rock solid performance from OS9, Panther, and Tiger this has been nothing but a nightmare. My G5, now with Leopard, randomly and continually crashes with Safari, Mail, iPhoto,and as well as many other programs. Even the disk utility First Aid hangs the computer. In two days now it has crashed probably twenty times. The force quit will not terminate hung programs and the computer has to be restarted with the power button. I have Disk Warrior on order to try to fix things but right now I'm seriously considering deinstalling this crap and going back to the stable Tiger. Fortunately, I have a G4 with Tiger that runs, with the same software, without problems. After being an ardent Mac supporter for many years It is very disappointing to see Apple come out with software like this.

I'd backed up the PowerBook completely, fully expecting the re installation of everything to be full of bumps and unpleasant surprises. The installation went so much easier than I'd expected that I came out of it feeling as though it had just done everything on it's own. All programs that I'd been using on the earlier operating system seem to be intact and still in working order. I didn't have to pull out old key codes or anything. This was a very pleasant surprise.

On top of this some of the new functions are very nice to have. BootCamp works nicely, as it gives me more of the computer's capabilities to use in Windows XP. I'd previously been using Parallels, and was frustrated that a tiny amount of the computer's RAM was allowed by the program. The one concern I had about using BootCamp instead was the need to reboot the computer when switching to the other operating system. For my purposes this is a minor inconvenience. As it takes time to open Parallels first and then to start up Windows anyway, I'm not regretting the time taken to reboot through BootCamp. I was still able to make an icon of the Windows part of the drive, and it's accessible in the Mac desktop. I can therefore click and drag files back and forth. It would be nice to have this happen as both operating systems run at the same time, but I'm sure this will be available some time in the future.

There are quite a few little things that have now become automated, much to my pleasure. For instance, getting access to the other computers in the home network is now a little less of a process and the icons representing other computers appear automatically in their own section of the far left column of the finder window. At the moment many of the other things just don't spring to mind. They just pop up as pleasant surprises here and there. They're not necessarily crucial things, but the details still make me happy.

The one disappointment comes just from the knowledge that there's one earlier version of OSX that has a driver that can make our particular printer (an Epson Stylus Photo 1280)recognizable by the AirPort Extreme. Otherwise there's no way to get that printer to work from the router. To be fair, this isn't so much the fault of the OS. It's just that seeing documentation that there was one version that could do it, and then to find that this one can't is a little disappointing.

I lost EVERYTHING on my hard drive because I didn't pay attention to the window during install. One of the first windows that comes up asks how you want to install... One of the options is to erase your hard drive, and then install the new operating system. This is the option selected unless you click the others. Beware, and pay attention.