Leopard vs Aperture
Keen to pick up a copy of Mac OS X Leopard? I have been running the final release for a day now, and can report that it’s an overall positive experience. It feels much faster than Tiger, and the standard set of applications—Finder, Preview, Mail, Safari, iChat et al—have all seen some great improvements.
However, there are a couple of things to watch out for. I have seen kernel panics when waking up from sleep, so to be on the safe side, don’t leave any unsaved work open. Also, do NOT attempt to run Aperture 1.5.4 on Leopard: It crashes randomly and very frequently, and appears to wreak havoc with workspace settings (although the library itself seems unaffected). So as soon as you’ve upgraded to Leopard, fire up Software Update and download Aperture 1.5.6, which appears to work fine.
October 27, 2007 #