I know I’ve bitched and moaned about Leopard in the last few weeks, but I just can’t handle it anymore. I’m going to search for my Tiger disc and reinstall it over the weekend. Leopard has too many kinks and it’s not worth the headache. It pisses me off that Apple has screwed up so badly. I’d rather go back to XP then use this shit anymore. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? Considering the fact that I’ve been worshipping OS X like it was some higher entity or something. Like I said, Tiger is great and I’ll be going back to it if I can find the install disc or I’ll be scouring the torrent sites for it. Do you have beef with Leopard? I’m sure you do. Here’s why I want it to die. A slow and painful death. Umm. No. I’d rather push it in front of a train if it were a physical being. I guess I could smash the DVD.
My MacBook is slowly dying and I’ve only owned it for a little over a year. Want to know what happens when I fire it up? I get the “?” in a folder. What does that mean? My HDD is going to crap out soon. I did a clean install of Leopard, too, so it shouldn’t be doing that but it is. That burns my biscuits. Eat ween, Leopard. Eat it and like it.
My MacBook will eventually burn my apartment down if Leopard is left as is. I’m sorry but I don’t want my fans blasting 24/7 at 5,000RPMs nor do I like 150+ burning Fahrenheits on my lap. It’s not comfortable no matter how cold my place is. I really do fear for my apartment, the lives of my roommates and material possessions when I leave my place with the MB still on. Did I mention that it freaked out the other day and it was sleeping in my bag? Yeah, Biggs was there and said it was probably going to die soon. WTF?!
Why does my keyboard not respond half the time? It’s because Leopard is a piece of shit. It thrills me to know that my MB’s keyboard could go at any time. I guess I won’t make my living now.
Nicholas and I both don’t use anything Leopardy and he’s had to reinstall the bitch on more than one occasion even though he does a clean install every time. A clean install is the way to do it, right? Well, on anything else, yes. But not with Leopard. It hates you. Well, I hate you, Leopard.
Time Machine looked so cool when I first saw last year. I can’t even use it because it wants to reformat my external. Forget that. I’m not deleting my music, movies, comics, pictures and porn. No thanks. I’ll deal with losing whatever is on my MB’s hard drive then reformat.
You see, I haven’t even attempted to use the full potential of Leopard for fear of a massive hard drive failure or any other failure that lurks within the OS. I hate it. I loathe it. I want it to die and to never come back until all the bugs are fixed. I want my money back, too. You hear me, Apple. Get off your fucking pedestal and go back to making the OS I switched from Windows for. Or I’ll burn the MF down. The following scene from Harold and Kumar comes to mind. Enjoy it:
Thank you.
I’ve had real problems with Leopard on my MacBook.
In the month that i’ve had it, it’s crashed my comp about 4-5 times. Time machine took a whole day to get working as their seems to be a bug in how Disk Utility formats external drives pre-formatted with FAT (solution: parition the drive, erase won’t work).
Apple Mail is buggy and didn’t sync well with Gmail. Everytime i opened Mail it would pop >300 mail messiages! Eventually solvled that issue.
Leopard also crashed while running Skype, but that may have been a skype issue. But still, Leopard shouldn’t just die like that.
We’ll see how long this lasts.
After upgrading to leopard has anyone had trouble w/airport extreme on iBook G4. Airport would not work/was not seen, could not even get on internet with ethernet, said I was not connected. Re-installed Tiger and immediately had internet access w/’airport extreme card. Any one else experience this? Any suggestions if I decide to re-install leapord??
Thanks
Kathy
My problem happened about 2 weeks after upgrading to Leopard. I upgraded both my wife’s and my iBook G4’s. 1.33 GHz. The last run of the 12 inch iBooks. Leopard should run on them, and there have been no problems *knock on wood* with my wife’s laptop. Mine however is a completely different story. I can no longer log onto Airport. I can use the internet with Ethernet, but not with Airport. The moment I turn Airport on the computer freezes and an image of the power button is displayed telling me I need to restart my computer. I checked the error logs and it says it is having trouble with the Airport driver. I upgraded both computers using a clean install and am glad the one is working. The other is not and I figure it is best to return my laptop to Tiger until an Airport patch is released. Anybody else have a similar problem with Airport on Leopard? I know it can be buggy on Tiger, but I never had any complaints with either of our computers.
Oops. Didn’t read the last post before me. Though, the previous comment said they could not use Ethernet either, where as I am able to connect via Ethernet, and my computer freezes and must be restarted when Airport is turned on.
I’m going to write again. Sorry for all the posts, but to aid in the problem, I have repaired the disk, repaired permissions, and performed fsck repeatedly, with no change in the problem.
i have had similar problems with leopard. the best part about the entire process was when i went to the apple store at the bullring in birmingham and asked one of the employees why my machine has now crashed 3 times in the past month while running leopard and he replied with “You must be unlucky.” personally, the only “unlucky” part of my story is/was that i bought leopard when my tiger install, from the day i purchased my macbook in 2006, never kernel panicked once!
once again, when will apple go back to making computers? the answer to that question is or can be at the very least, when they stop making ipods.
I’ve owned Macs since 2000 and have been using them for even longer. I’ve seen and had experience on Leopard all the way back to about System 7.5, so I’ve seen my fair share of Mac operating systems. I can honestly say that Leopard is the worst operating system Apple has put out since I’ve been owning Mac computers. I believe Mac OS 9 was a lot more reliable that Leopard. Now, over a year later, there are still tons of issues. I have had to clean install Leopard over 8 times in the past two weeks because of various issues. The most recent was a couple of hours ago, only to find out that once installed, Leopard decided not to hide the UNIX file structure from me. These are serious system files that, if modified or even touched, could destroy your computer. After a bunch of Terminal commands to try to solve the problem, I still have a few folders (etc, tmp, and var) that will not accept the Terminal hide command. This is certainly not the sign of a good and stable operating system. I will be downgrading back to Tiger until Snow Leopard. Because, after 8 attempts, it’s clear that Leopard will not run on my mid-2007 MacBook Pro at all anymore. I wish I could use it because I cannot stand the brushed metal appearance and Finder sidebar Tiger boasted, but I really don’t have any other choice. I cannot afford to keep having issues such as this one and many others I’ve had.
It just seems like Apple (and Microsoft too) just care about features nowadays. Stability is now an afterthought. This is a shame. Snow Leopard better correct all this bullshit because Leopard is making me question my 8-year loyalty to Apple.
Mac’s suck. I tired one upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and it froze, crashed amd fucked up everything. I switched back to PC. Got a souped up DELL XPS it smokes the mac for lunch, plus I can actually use all the non-crapple software again.