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| ![Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard [5-User Family Pack]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JcgilFn0L._SL160_.jpg)
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Category: Software
List Price: $199.00
Buy New: $142.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 94
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X Intel, Mac Os X
Color: 5-user
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: 5-User Family Pack
Operating System: Mac OS X Intel
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 160.8 x 160.8 x 21.6
MPN: MB577Z/A
Model: MB577Z/A
UPC: 718908999783
EAN: 0885909240555
ASIN: B000BR0NPO
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 The best OS for the Mac just keeps getting better! April 7, 2008
As I Mac user since 1985, I've looked forward to each new operating system release from Apple. I went through the bad times and the good times, but I'm happy to say the best OS for the Mac has just gotten better! OS Ten (OS X) has been a blessing for Mac users since it started. Each release just keeps getting better. I thought after "Tiger", how could it get any better? Leopard has shown that it can!
As someone that has been in IT for many years, I stay away from X.0 releases (first version), so as much as I wanted to, I resisted the 10.5.0 release of Leopard for my part-time home office which is running four Macs.
After the 10.5.1 release, I purchased this 5-client pack from Amazon. On my Intel Mac Mini and my wife's Intel iMac, the upgrade went fine, no issues whatsoever. On my 1st generation MacBook, and Dual G5 PowerMac, the results weren't the same. I had several issues with both. Not enough to cause serious problems, but enough for me to put my Tiger clone back on and keep running Tiger.
Finally, 10.5.2 was released, and this time was a charm for both machines. I am happily running Leopard on all my Macs now. Time Machine, Quick Look, the new Finder, and speed and security improvements are all features that I'm very happy with. Time Machine with Time Capsule is one of the most revolutionary features that modern personal computers have seen in a long time. I'm quite disciplined on making backups and clone images every week, but other members of my family never did backups. They either depended on me, or just lived on the edge. With Time Machine, my life has gotten so much better, and their data is rarely at risk any more. It's just a "no-brainer" backup solution that works without them even knowing about it... until they lose something! Recently, it rescued my wife's iMac from a serious malfunction when she tried to "modify" her dock settings and deleted some system files. Her entire dock disappeared and there was nothing she could do to get it back. Within minutes, using TM, we were able to bring it back to "a time" before she deleted the files. With one Time Capsule, we can keep everyone's Mac backed up on a continual basis. Some people have compared it to the Windows "Snapshot" feature, but it's not. It's much more powerful and complete. If you read the fine print of Windows "System Restore", it makes no such promise that you'll positively be able to go back and restore the exact file you lost. With TM, EVERY file (unless YOU exclude it) will be backed up. How far you can go back "in time" is only dictated by how big a hard drive you have.
The new Apple Mail has "Data Detectors". Whenever it sees a name, date, or address, it has the intelligence to understand that is specific data. When it sees a date, you can instantly pop it into iCal without having to leave Mail and open iCal. See an address? Instantly jump to Google Maps to see a map, and import it if needed. Saves me a lot of time!
"Spaces" is another great feature. Not revolutionary, virtual desktops have been around a long time, but Apple has integrated it nicely into Leopard. I use dual 24" LCDs in a virtual desktop configuration, so with Spaces, I can increase my productivity by having sets of applications into its own space. The Expose features also work in Spaces, so even when viewing dual monitors, I can separate many different views into distinct windows. You can quickly "grab" windows and place them in different spaces as needed.
Networking has improved over Tiger, and while WiFi had problems in the initial release, these seem to be all but gone now. Early adopter problems seem to have vanished with 10.5.2, including the small issues I had. Hard drive partitions can now be dynamically changed without losing data from your startup partition (though be careful as you would with any disk utility).
Some people have complained about the transparency, but I've had no issues with it, and it can be turned off now. What's really surprising about Leopard, is it makes my 4-year old PowerMac run faster! In the Windows world, whenever you upgrade the OS, you are usually required to upgrade the computer as well (very nice for computer retailers!), but on Macs, this isn't a problem, unless you have a really old Mac or one that is terribly under-configured.
The big cat has hit a home run with my small office! Can it get any better?
Best OS April 7, 2008
I love mac os x. Leopard is a great upgrade to cool new features. I purchased this upgrade for spaces and for ichat screen sharing capabilities. Spaces lets me stay more organized and less cluttered. I can work on photoshop as its own space and have another space for all my internet windows that I have open. I can switch between them with a click of a button rather than hitting expose and searching for the window a that I am working on. The screen sharing is my favorite. My brothers are goof balls so I can go ahead and control their computer through ichat with screen sharing. No more 3rd party software. The old os is perfect. Only updgrade if you really need to.
reinvigorates an old Mac -- faster and more responsive March 26, 2008
I waited a while to upgrade, until 10.5.2 had come out, & have had no problems doing a straight upgrade on a iMac that's more than three years old. The improvement in performance is remarkable -- suddenly my old machine feels like a much newer computer. They've made some technical improvements -- multi-threading the Finder, passing more work off to the graphics card -- that speed things up & reduce delays (I don't think I've seen a single beachball since installing -- compared to several every hour at least with Tiger) and using Spaces also makes things much more responsive. Keeping apps open and maximized in their own space (1 for iTunes, 1 for Mail, 1 for work is my current pattern) makes them much snappier to activate than minimizing to the Dock and maximizing again.
New OS X Leopard Family pack March 25, 2008
This is really a great new operating system for Mac. One purchase and I was able to upgrade all four Mac in our family. Microsoft should learn a lesson and do the same when they do an upgrade to the OS. Anyway, we all lovbe the new features in Leopard, including the neat, new utilities.
Great update March 23, 2008
Leopard is a great update. One of the things you'd be easy to overlook as a little so-what is the Quickview, but it's one of my favorite features! Sample songs, check out pictures or documents easily and once the quickview pane is up, you just have to switch to a something else to get it's quickview.
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