Apple really needs to pay you for advertising, 'mano.

I mean, damn. :-p

I liked it a lot too. Until it started to make iPhoto, Skype and PhotoShop CS3 crash and freeze. I'm still on hold with Applecare right now.

Oh, please! not again...

yikes. i';ve not had any of those problems. what is it with you and computers, molina?

I haven't had any problems with CS3, Skype, or iPhoto either.

I do really miss Mail Appetizer though.

What the hell is the Tamale Machine? LOL.

You know me... Everything I touch turns to shit!

How long did it take to upgrade? Quicklook sounds pretty cool...

yeah the Quicklook rules eric. saves time on opening things just to see whats in a doc. it took an hour, maybe. full package. anyone doing an "upgrade" vs an "install and archive" should remove any APE haxies, pref panels and all, first. be warned. and it seems the old divX codec should be removed, too. if not, your restart will be troubled and you'll hang for infinity. or not be able to log in.

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oso, that's actually my dedicated external drive for the Time Machine jammie. jeje! :)

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Nah, molina. not true...you just have a mac curse, serious. i've never had the probs you do on macs, DIFFERENT macs and new ones, too! it's impressive how many machines and new ways you can find glitches.

oh and to any who need to know, you can google yourself a new free version of the DivX codec for Leopard.

i tried to vote for you on the best latino blog award but they failed to list you as the
le mejor onda chicano. oh well i guess we will have to 'roll our own'

mac is okay what else is there? soon to buy the i-mac. fasscissta con classicaamente.

someday they will knock at your door with a 'macarthur genius award' i am waiting for mine anyday
now.

jeje. tahnk you for trying to vote for me. that's cool of ya. i hope you get macked over soon. stacked up. tricked out. shake that motherboard about. we shall roll our own!

gracias, M! i guess if they paid me for these types of endorsements, i'd take my loot in the form of...software. :]

Oooh pretty. Man I wish I had a Mac.

Leopard is friggin' buggy and the only good thing to come out of it was the new and improved Terminal that supports Unicode without me screwing around with it.

how is your leopard buggy? mine is hella stable for a first iteration of a major upgrade to the OS. i'm sure Apple will issue a few patches and minor updates as is the case usually, before it settles down. but really, i've had no issues. not yet, at least. sorry to hear it.

they are pretty, rafa. prettier than TEN of Lou Dobbs' computers.

and smarter than...well...you know.

My friend's Leopard is buggy on his G4 PowerBook and I can't even run it on my G3 iBook. We both have heavy customizations - his with Python 2.5 (or 2.6?) , mine with Ruby 1.8.6, and we're both running as webservers. If I had a spare drive I would just run rsync to backup my stuff instead of Time Machine which requires you to have another drive running Leopard. (Mm...Ubuntu.) It's just too flat looking and Coverflow is irritating.

Ugh, what happened to the Apple of yore, that cared about it's customer base? Or do they just want to sell us all iPods so we won't notice the kind of crap they shove in their boxes?

well. how much any huge corporation "cares" about their base of humans i dont know. i know they care about sales. i dont feel uncared for. but i guess i only expect a few things from Apple. and they have not let me down on that with this. hell, i was with them for 8.6, and thsi is millions of miles ahead.

you're actually mistaken about needing "another drive running leopard." i have a dedicated drive just as you mentioned ("Spare drive") for Time Machine. but leopard is not installed. it's just a drive. the OS is in my primary HD, where its always been.

you dont need to use Cover Flow of course. thats just an option in the folder. an extra one. so you lose nothing you had before. you just have more choice.

clearly you would be happier in Tiger. tiger was still good.

ive installed Leopardio also on an iBook, G4 1.2 Ghz PPC chip. no problems!

of course its the "customizations" i'm betting are giving you bugs. it will take the third party software makers a while to catch up. (dunno why, they can get early dev kits but i guess thats how it goes). APE haxies as i said and the old DivX codec were messing witha lot of peeps' installations. i'm betting the more third party stuff done, and especially if you did an "upgrade" instead of an "archive and install", the more problems. which is why i have none, maybe. i read up first and then threw out a few files to avoid problems talked about on the Apple discussion boards.

oh, and...i wouldn't expect a G3 to run Leopard! i mean, i was being optimistic when i loaded Panther on the ole Beige. but leopard? i mean...sooner or later you have to upgrade your machine. if you were running Tiger on a G3, that seems like an accomplishment to me!

i mean...sooner or later you have to upgrade your machine.

HAH! I'm still running win98, not even SE you understand, original flavor 98, an OS that is virus proof for the simple reason that most of the viruses died out back before the cambrian explosion. Upgrades are for wimps, wimps and people who want new fangled shit to work on their computer.

When I saw the pic with the time machine on it, I assumed it was a joke thing, like "leopard's so awesome it comes with a Time Machine and a device that turns farts into candy spaceships that end world poverty while flying you to the moon and letting you play amongst the stars."

But I take it from the comments that it's a server of some kind. I like my version personally.

well, i guess i'm a "wimp" then! i can deal with that. I do like new fangled shit to work sometimes. with all my many uses of my computer, from being the heart of my recording studio, to intensive illustration and video projects, i need my interfaces and basic major apps to work and communicate all around and across.

i'm not going to pretend that my mac is not a toy! it is. i like my toys! and i also happen to loathe windows. i mean, by itself it was fine. but once i began using macs around OS 8ish (even back when it would hard to argue that they were, in actual mechanics and ability, inferior to IBM machines) i right away dug their style and setup. and that is my preference.

i dont really like linux either, which i had for a year. i learned on PCs first, (with basic language when i was in sixth grade!) and back in my first college. i used to keep my written journals on 5 1/4" floppies! before Windows® existed. MS DOS baby. i'm not really a big "platform war" person...just happen to like this product MUCH better.

the Time Machine is just a way to mainstream the back-up function. most people dont do it as it stands. this gives you a conceptual narrative and a pretty GUI process so finally people can do it without thinking about it, and can "go back in time" to a previous state of the computer if they delete or lose a file. its GREAT. but of course you can do this many other ways. you dont need a mac. they were just smart about it. and did it with a cherry on top. but that is the extra that does it sometimes.

hey. i understand people's attitudes toward the flood of mac ads for years. i hate ads. i think apple does some of the best for the genre, but i do understand feeling grossed out by corporations and their methodology. but i'm a Thing person, i like my Things, and when i find Things that really please me, i steadily endorse them and for free. i've done this with a few brands in my life, ones that work very well and please my sense of aesthetic. of course this is my taste, nothing definitive. i dont care or expect others to agree all or some of the time.

and i'm glad you like your version, really. if you ever want to fart around up in the stars, i'll be there.

I'm actually in denial about the upgrade front, because the last windows OS I might have possibly bought was XP - which you can't buy now, due to how microsoft is really trying to push that malware and spyware ridden piece of crap they call vista, so I'm going to have to buy a mac at somepoint (and I did do a geek squee at the pics by the way, becuase it looks yummy), which I can't afford for yonks, and also require me deciding whether I need a new computer more than I need plugs in my fallopians, and attempts to prioritise those two is just too freakin weird if you ask me, becuase it goes into a whole weird "not being pregnant is good, and it saves on the pill and shit, but those buttons look so awesome and hte GUI is very chic" area that I don't want to think about.

ah yes. the old "Mac or Fallopian Plugs" dilemma. you travel a time-worn and honorable road, dear R.

Woman to woman, R.M., I chose the Mac. I can always plug the tubes, and these GUIs are damned pretty.