Posted on Thursday, October 25 2007 @ 20:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The first reviews of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard arrived today. Here's a snip from Walt Mossberg's review:
Leopard felt about as fast as Tiger, and it started up much faster than Vista in my tests. I compared a MacBook Pro laptop with Leopard preinstalled to a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista preinstalled. Even though I had cleared out all of the useless trial software Sony had placed on the Vaio, it still started up painfully slowly compared with the Leopard laptop.
It took the Vista machine nearly two minutes to perform a cold start and be ready to run, including connecting to my wireless network. The Leopard laptop was up, running and connected to the network in 38 seconds. In a test of restarting the two laptops after they had been running an email program, a Web browser and a word processor, the Sony with Vista took three minutes and 29 seconds, while the Apple running Leopard took one minute and five seconds.
Here's a short list of Mac OS X 10.5 reviews:
WSJ,
USA Today,
Technology Review and
NY Times.
