OSX Leopard Leo4All on my PC

Since the appearance of the Leopard version of the OSX operating system, I’ve been dying to install it on my PC.

At the time I had an old Athlon CPU and I decided to get a cool new processor that would support the new OSX.

In about a week I put together a nice little computer with Intel E6850 + Intel DG33BU + GeForce 8600GT + 2 GB DDR2.

It took me months of testing and hacking and testing and crying and pulling my hair in my quest for Leopard. Finally, about 3 days ago I got my hands on Leo4All Leopard DVD ISO and that made my dream come true. Everything works like a charm (and that means the things REALLY work, fast and glamorous).

I am no professional tester, nor do I use some complicated testing tools, yet, IMHO Leopard beats the crap out of Vista in many ways. Now I can understand those MAC junkies from various forums and blogs, bragging and pretending theirs is the best OS out there. I do not know about the “best” part, but they do have a point on the looks, speed and feeling. Leopard provides all that to the fullest.

As a programmer though, I find Leopard to be unequipped by default with any programming tools (I mean there is not even a decent text editor). I tried to find a FREE text editor but I only found commercial ones. Finaly I got TextMate and it does the job just fine.

As a conclusion, I find Leopard to be a fine piece of software but definitely not targeted towards IT geeks but more to the home user segment. For those of you spending night after night in front of the computer trying to make things work I would recommend Ubuntu (either server or desktop).

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