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A Leopard not worth its spots

Nick McAvoy

Bright, shiny junk.

I’m not a Mac user and thus don’t have direct experience of the new Leopard operating system. However, my indirect experience with the OS so far is as follows:

  • My housemate went in on a license only to find that his computer didn’t have enough RAM to run Leopard smoothly.
  • My professor (Sam Apple, ironically enough) was unable to print for our class on Wednesday because Leopard didn’t work with his printer.
  • I read this story in the DP about students having trouble connecting to AirPennNet on Leopard.

Are we talking about Apple here, or Windows 98?

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