Apple said Tuesday that it sold over two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in the company's history.
Sales included copies sold at Apple's retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac computers. In comparison, it took the Cupertino-based Mac maker approximately six weeks to ship its 2 millionth copy of Mac OS X Tiger back in 2005.
"Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. "Leopard's innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac."
Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X and is packed with more than 300 new features. Among them is Time Machine, an effortless way to automatically back up everything on a Mac; a redesigned Finder that lets users quickly browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to instantly see files without opening an application; Spaces, an intuitive new feature used to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; a brand new desktop with Stacks, a new way to easily access files from the Dock; and major enhancements to Mail and iChat.
View: AppleInsider
Sales included copies sold at Apple's retail stores, Apple Authorized Resellers, the online Apple Store, under maintenance agreements and bundled with new Mac computers. In comparison, it took the Cupertino-based Mac maker approximately six weeks to ship its 2 millionth copy of Mac OS X Tiger back in 2005.
"Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. "Leopard's innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac."
Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X and is packed with more than 300 new features. Among them is Time Machine, an effortless way to automatically back up everything on a Mac; a redesigned Finder that lets users quickly browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to instantly see files without opening an application; Spaces, an intuitive new feature used to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; a brand new desktop with Stacks, a new way to easily access files from the Dock; and major enhancements to Mail and iChat.
View: AppleInsider
THIS IS GOING TO TAKE ALLOT OF EFFORT
Now I just need to decide whether to (for legal reasons not) try it on my laptop... I (for legal reasons didn't) put 10.4.1 on, but as predicted the usual Mac stability was (would have been) gone due to the unsupported hardware. Perhaps I shall try again.....
Now I just need to decide whether to (for legal reasons not) try it on my laptop... I (for legal reasons didn't) put 10.4.1 on, but as predicted the usual Mac stability was (would have been) gone due to the unsupported hardware. Perhaps I shall try again.....
It worked for me. I just had to add a EIDE hard drive. It didn't like my SATA drive, for some reason... but it works.
What Microsoft demonstrated in the early Longhorn builds would be a nice start. That showed some nice, innovative features; unlike the sad end product that is Vista.
What Microsoft demonstrated in the early Longhorn builds would be a nice start. That showed some nice, innovative features; unlike the sad end product that is Vista.
Fine then. What, other than a bunch of fluffy eyecandy and WinFS, didn't make it into Vista?
Why do you feel the need to defend the corporation after they failed miserably to deliver what they had initially promised? I shouldn't have to explain myself, go watch the videos on youtube. I followed development from the very beginning and watched as MS made blunder after blunder and removed feature after feature eventually coming to what we have now, a bloated, slow afterthought pushed out the door after multiple delays just to get a new product out to the masses and recover some of the money they wasted away all those years. Vista has more in the way of activation and DRM than anything else along with a poorly designed UI and resource hogging system split up into fragments. Many of the changes were unnecessary and most of the security is poorly implemented and overly extreme.
You may not see it that way, but I do.
Why do you feel the need to defend the corporation after they failed miserably to deliver what they had initially promised? I shouldn't have to explain myself, go watch the videos on youtube. I followed development from the very beginning and watched as MS made blunder after blunder and removed feature after feature eventually coming to what we have now, a bloated, slow afterthought pushed out the door after multiple delays just to get a new product out to the masses and recover some of the money they wasted away all those years. Vista has more in the way of activation and DRM than anything else along with a poorly designed UI and resource hogging system split up into fragments. Many of the changes were unnecessary and most of the security is poorly implemented and overly extreme.
You may not see it that way, but I do.
Wasted? I'm sure that they'll NEVER implement anything seen in Longhorn. Yes, because had MS done what it did with Longhorn, it would have not have been more "resource hogging" than it is now.
Oh yeah, and there is no DRM in Vista.
Oh yeah, and there is no DRM in Vista.
1. You don't know that (it depends on the quality of the code and design)
2. yes there is. Don't be naive.
im assuming those bundled with new Mac's includes those stil sitting in the warehouse and those coming of the assembly line
What's the problem? It is a comparison of Leopard vs Tiger, so the measurement method is the same. Just comparing one Apple product to another.
What's the problem? It is a comparison of Leopard vs Tiger, so the measurement method is the same. Just comparing one Apple product to another.
Very true. But a lot of Neowinians can't seem to stomach this.
Very true. But a lot of Neowinians can't seem to stomach this.
If it makes you feel better, I think Leopard looks pretty cool, but I'm not buying that Mac dongle you have to use to get it to run.
Giggling to Steve Jobs' saying "Leopard's innovative features are getting great reviews"
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/macosx_leopard.asp
I would have no problems with Apple if they stopped coming out with such strong words about their products. No, most of what they do is NOT revolutionary... sorry! It's their statments such as the one about no blue screen's on Mac's (and Leopard causing blue screens or gray or black or whatever color... it is a CRASH! no arguments) that really make me anti Apple.
However, I agree with Knight85 and Paul in this case, Apple is very good at making their products seem like the best thing since sliced bread when in fact most of their stuff is nothing special or even downright junk. Leopard is simply put, Tiger with a few changes here and there, nothing out of the ordinary at all.
Apple loves to create hype over items that don't deserve it.
You want an unbiased point of view, this is coming from someone that doesn't like Microsoft or Apple.
However, I agree with Knight85 and Paul, Apple is very good at making their products seem like the best thing since sliced bread when in fact most of their stuff is nothing special or downright junk. Leopard is simply put, Tiger with a few changes here and there, nothing extraordinary.
Apple loves to create hype over items that don't deserve it.
Obviously a company selling a product is going to SELL it. They aren't gonna dumb down the marketing are they. And Leopard isn't just Tiger with a few changes here and there.
Apple could make people buy a sock at four times the markup, in fact, they did. If you would take off your Apple branded goggles you would see that yes, Leopard is Tiger with a slightly different UI and some small updates to various programs. Big whoop. It's still OSX, not OS11.
Read the ars.technica review. I trust his judgement more than yours frankly.
Read the ars.technica review. I trust his judgement more than yours frankly.
I couldn't care less whose judgement you trust. Seems people are so easily impressed these days.
Wow, Leopard has a backup system
Wow, Leopard has a transparent bar, mirror dock and new wallpaper
Wow, Leopard has an updated chat with backgrounds for video feeds
I watched the half hour or so video Apple released that went over all the major features, color me unimpressed. It's a nice improvement over Tiger but excuse me while I turn over and fart.
All the nerds expressing their love for this crap is akin to all the Windows nerds who scream like little girls over damn service packs with security updates. I find it quite amusing.
"the biggest problem with Leopard is that it doesn't really offer enough of an advantage over Vista to make anyone want to switch...Leopard was Apple's chance to once again leapfrog Windows, and given the five years of delays Microsoft put us through, it should have been a slam-dunk. That Apple was only able to come up with something that's roughly as good as Vista is both surprising and telling, I think. Leopard just isn't better than Vista. And it should be."
Rather than dismiss the article as "bias" it helps to READ first, then comment.
Read the ars.technica review. I trust his judgement more than yours frankly.
I couldn't care less whose judgement you trust. Seems people are so easily impressed these days.
Wow, Leopard has a backup system
Wow, Leopard has a transparent bar, mirror dock and new wallpaper
Wow, Leopard has an updated chat with backgrounds for video feeds
I watched the half hour or so video Apple released that went over all the major features, color me unimpressed. It's a nice improvement over Tiger but excuse me while I turn over and fart.
All the nerds expressing their love for this crap is akin to all the Windows nerds who scream like little girls over damn service packs with security updates. I find it quite amusing.
Believe it or not, ars.technica's review was rather unbiasd, the guy hated the dock and menu bar.
I like em.
"the biggest problem with Leopard is that it doesn't really offer enough of an advantage over Vista to make anyone want to switch...Leopard was Apple's chance to once again leapfrog Windows, and given the five years of delays Microsoft put us through, it should have been a slam-dunk. That Apple was only able to come up with something that's roughly as good as Vista is both surprising and telling, I think. Leopard just isn't better than Vista. And it should be."
Rather than dismiss the article as "bias" it helps to READ first, then comment.
Vista rated a 4/5? I'd give it a 2/5, 2.5 tops. I've run a number of configurations including XP, Vista, a few Linux distros and OSx86 Tiger all running on the same system and Vista was by far the worst of them. I preferred Tiger to them all tbh but stuck with XP because of software support, plus I like playing games in my spare time.
+1. Paul isn't exactly a computing god-like figure to ALL us Microsoft lovers... I think he's still eating his foot (pretty much the entire leg by now) over his comments that XP SP3 will never, ever come out. I didn't have much respect for him before that fiasco, that one pretty much sealed it up for me.
Gladly Chicane-UK. The answer to your question is the second post up from yours. I haven't played with Solaris though.
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Apple could make people buy a sock at four times the markup, in fact, they did. If you would take off your Apple branded goggles you would see that yes, Leopard is Tiger with a slightly different UI and some small updates to various programs. Big whoop. It's still OSX, not OS11.
Premium brand.
See Prada, Gucci, Dior, etc.
There's a market for it. If you aren't part of it . . . then don't comment.
+1. Paul isn't exactly a computing god-like figure to ALL us Microsoft lovers... I think he's still eating his foot (pretty much the entire leg by now) over his comments that XP SP3 will never, ever come out. I didn't have much respect for him before that fiasco, that one pretty much sealed it up for me.
Um, XP SP3 still hasn't come out, so he doesn't need to be eating anyone's feet.
See Prada, Gucci, Dior, etc.
There's a market for it. If you aren't part of it . . . then don't comment.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
I will comment all I like thank you. You can go back to your hole now.
/jk
might be full of bugs and errors without checking it ? that's crazy, and then are suprised that people can't cope with OS, no odd then ...
That said, I do plan on getting it within 6 months.
Ab-SO-freakin-lootly
Wait a minute, is there something your not telling us?? There's 2 Million people out there enjoying Leopard, and you appear to let on as if you know something that we don't... is it there something we should know?? Should we all just return Leopard... or ??
A closed platform will ALWAYS be more reliable than anything else, as a general rule.
Either way, I'm glad you find Vista stable.
Just to keep with tradition
tradition again...
tradition again...
<insert logical user comment who utilizes XP, Vista, OS X and *nix comment about how each has advantages over the others>
Why by a Civic to pull a boat? Why by a Apple computer to play games? Why buy a truck and try and drive it like a sports car? Yes, I do feel more secure on a Mac. Yes, I have more FUN on my PCs. I'm still learning Ubuntu. To each his own.
tradition again...
<insert logical user comment who utilizes XP, Vista, OS X and *nix comment about how each has advantages over the others>
Why by a Civic to pull a boat? Why by a Apple computer to play games? Why buy a truck and try and drive it like a sports car? Yes, I do feel more secure on a Mac. Yes, I have more FUN on my PCs. I'm still learning Ubuntu. To each his own.
<insert logical user comment who utilizes XP, Vista, OS X and *nix comment about how each has advantages over the others>
Well that leaves you out then
What I see here is 2 million people desperate for an upgrade.
Compare it with that of the competition.
Now you understand that people's faith in Apple has been earned.
btw, Check out this site http://stardock.com/ just to show you that anything you see in a mac can be done on a PC.
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