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Yay - We Can Run Bootcamp! Hoorah!
You can run XP, Linux, Unix, OS X all on one laptop. What's NOT to love?

Bootcamp comes with Leopard as a free addon... totally worth it!

Necessary Upgrade
Leopard 10.5.1 navigates smoothly, yet additional memory, also was installed. The iMacG5 is not a light home PC; I was glad I did not buy a new computer.

think before ya speak and look before ya leap
Dont even think about the shift till there is a faster more stable and more COMPATIBLE(for pro audio applications and drivers) is available...

Everything old is new again
I purchased this product mainly out of necessity, as the current generation of Mac Pro video cards don't accept anything less than MacOSX 10.5.2. That said, I appreciated the boosts in speed and efficiency over Tiger. There have been many small changes to the UI, such as the new pop-out expansion of folders in the dock, and the addition of Spaces, which adds an extra number of desktops.

My praises aside, I'm a little disappointed in this current version. It doesn't bring much to the table. Where 10.3 brought Expose and 10.4 brought the dashboard, 10.5 brings Spaces (as I previously mentioned). Spaces is mildly useful, but a bit of a processor hog, and its position is redundant, as Expose does all the same things with simple keystrokes, and you don't have to navigate through all of your screens. Also, they dropped support for 256 colors in 10.5.3, so any games that may run in that color mode (such as Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo II and Starcraft) will no longer run.

All in all, I like the speed and efficiency boosts, but I wish that they did a little more with this installment.

PRETTY BUT PRACTICAL
First off, I want to say that I've used mostly Windows Operating Systems until I got introduced to Linux Kubuntu which then got me into OS X. There are things I love and hate about all three, so I hope you find my review unbiased.

THINGS I LOVE ABOUT OS X:
It sounds cliche, but probably the first thing you'll say when you see OS X is: "Wow! What a beautiful desktop!"
The Dock is really colorful and large--great for us that are stimulated visually. It's also really intuitive as far as adding and removing icons go.
Printing is a breeze! I plugged in the USB cable from the printer and I was instantly able to print. No software required or install screens!
The Dashboard feature is really nice for checking out weather, date, time and a few calculations.
The Expose feature is really handy if your desktop is cluttered with lots of windows.
The Startup and Shutdown times are superb: ~1 minute Startup and ~15 second Shutdown! Even better than my Linux Kubuntu desktop!
Very intuitive overall, once you play around with it for about a month.
It's very stable (not prone to crashing, etc.)

NITPICKINGS:
Virtual Desktops are a must, hence OS X's Spaces, but I was disappointed that there was no wrap-around feature like you find on most Linux distribution desktops. Thankfully a little free program called Wrap fixed this.
The default application software is not bad, but I've seen better (Amarok, K3B, etc.)
No fan control options, but this can be fixed by installing smcFanControl.
In general I found that most programs did not have any as many options as I would have liked.

THINGS I HATE ABOUT OS X: Honestly, I can't think of anything I HATE about OS X, but if I wanted to play a video game I'd definitely switch to Windows and if I wanted to customize things like crazy to my personal taste I'd go with Linux Kubuntu with E17 added on.

OVERALL: Probably the best OS I've used, right alongside E17 (Enlightenment). Windows definitely has some catching up to do . . . .