Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard review

Verdict:

Review Date: 1 Nov 2007

Price when reviewed: (£72.34 ex VAT); Family Pack £129 (£110 ex VAT)

Reviewed By: Kenny Hemphill

Our Rating 5 stars out of 5

Subscribers to .Mac will be pleased with the Back to My Mac feature, which allows you to access any of the computers authorised with your .Mac account from anywhere, over the Internet.

Other notable features include the new Parental Controls, which give you control over how others use your Mac, including who they can use Mail and iChat with.

Leopard also sees Safari 3 and Boot Camp come out of beta.

In our tests on a Core Duo Mac mini, Leopard ran beautifully. It feels much more responsive than Tiger was on the same Mac, and the new features will change the way we work significantly. Other than the initial glitch with Keychain Access, which has been fixed, we experienced no other bugs.

To the £85 price of Leopard you may have to add the cost of upgrading Ram - we'd suggest a minimum of 1GB - and an external hard drive to make full use of Time Machine. Even then it's worth the money. It is, quite simply, the best version of Mac OS X yet and if it doesn't add significantly to the number of people who switch to the Mac, we'll eat several copies of this very issue.

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