Ask a Mac Nerd: What's the Deal with Leopard?

Published: October 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

Mac released its new Leopard operating system on Friday, and low-tech Seattlest wonders what's up. So we asked Aron Beal, a Web applications developer and genuine Mac nerd, to tell us. 1) What's the deal with Leopard--is it a new thing, or just a normal upgrade, or what? Leopard is a full fledged operating system release, similar to the one you might have made when upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP (or to Vista). It is meant to compete with Vista, and it unfortunately has ramped up requirements like Vista has; the minimum system required to run it has increased a fair bit. The old Mac G3 and some of the slower G4 lines in the PowerPC architecture are now obsolete as far as this OS is concerned, and you'll need more that what apple usually ships as stock for computer memory in order to be able to run it properly (Official tech specs here). 2) Are Mac nerds totally freaking out about Leopard iPhone-style, or is it not such a biggie? The update itself is a big deal,

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