I strongly do NOT recommend to use Mac OS X Leopard in a productive environment!

The initial release 10.5 got launched on October 26, 2007. It contained a number of serious bugs which should have been addressed in the first upgrade. On November 15th Apple released the first major upgrade 10.5.1. Most people believe all serious bugs are squashed by now and start to use Leopard in productive environments. I would rather wait for 10.5.2 or even 10.5.3!

Here you’ll find an extensive article about the massive data loss bug in Leopard by Tom Karpik.
His tests are based on Leopard 10.5 and I didn’t find any information about this bug still persisting in 10.5.1. But I was pretty shocked about what happened to me last night…

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Warning: This article was written by a Windows/Linux User who just started to switch to OS X after a period of 10 macless years.

Two days ago I got my new Mac Mini and finally I’m serious about switching from Windows Vista to Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just too annoying to wait 4 years for a new Windows system which is worse than it’s predecessor and which might start to get useful as of SP1 which still is not out (my standby still does not work and I gave up on installing “SP1 beta pre-RC1″ – what the hell?!!). Vista is more like a blown-up XP that does everything worse than XP. I like its user interface but not if I need to sacrifice 50% of my CPU-power on a powerful IBM T60p.

My first impression of OS X Leopard: WOW!
My second impression: If you go with all the defaults, it works like a charm. If you want to get a bit further, OS X is no way easier to fine tune as a Windows OS but still much easier as tuning a Linux.
My conclusion: Cool, Leopard rocks! But hey, be realistic, each OS got his pros and cons.

Here are my Tips & Tricks of the last two days…
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