Re: How usable is Leopard actually?

[Scott Howell]

You are correct, its important to make light of the good, the bad, and  
the ugly. I can tell you taht I've been using Leopard long enough to  
determine that in fact I can carry out day to day tasks on my Mac.  
True it will be a real plus when the Iwork suite of applications or  
microsoft office become fully accessible. However, for browsing the  
web, Safari does a reasonably good job, maybe not perfect, but it does  
do a good job. I can tell you that there are sites out there that are  
designed to work best with Internet Explorer and that in and of itself  
creates problems. Now for e-mail, no problem at all, most third-party  
applications for working with audio, burning CD/DVDs and the like,  
work very well, Itunes, no problems, its I'd say at about 97 percent  
accessible and maybe even more than that, basic word processing tasks  
are not a problem with TextEdit, and there much more that can be done  
on the Mac.
Is the Mac perfect, of course not, no os/platform is perfect, but its  
certainly in many way a better choice than windows on the PC platform.  
I can speak from experience cause I use windows at work, I don't have  
much choice at this point and I use the Mac at home exclusively. I've  
also used Linux so I feel I have a pretty good handle on what works  
and what does not. No one should feel as though they can not voice  
their opinions on this list, you just have to learn to ignore thos who  
feel otherwise.
Of course if you have an issue, be prepared to explain clearly why  
there's a problem etc. It does no one any good if you just say  
VoiceOver and Safari don't work because. You have to backup your  
statements with facts, it will help others in the end understand and  
perhaps assist you in resolving issues if you take the time to explain  
why.
So, in the end, yes, Leopard is fine, it is a very worthwhile  
investment and will handle most tasks you may need. Of course in the  
end you have to decide what will work best for you.

Good luck,