Received my eMac through the post yesterday, and I must say, i'm very impressed
I'm amazed at how quick this thing boots up and shuts down! It boots up far quicker than my old eMac with Panther and shuts down just as quick.
The dashboard with the widgets is really cool and convenient, and Front Row works like a charm
I thought it would struggle slightly because it's only just over the requirements to run Leopard but it's running better than my old eMac with Panther!
Plenty of hard drive space still available. With the OS, all of my applications, and all of my documents only taking up 9GB of my 40GB hard drive.
Yet to buy and external hard drive so I can enable Time Machine and put my documents on it.
Having said that though, I do have a couple of gripes....
First one being, I have a game, 007 Nightfire, that with my old eMac with OSX Panther, worked. But now on Leopard it won't even start and crashes when I try to open it. Is there some sort of compatibility mode I can try, similar to the Windows one?
With OSX Panther, to access my Windows shared files all I needed to do was to enable "Windows Sharing" in the Networking preferences. Now it seems Leopard does not have that option, and I have to connect via the "Connect to Server" option where I have to enter the IP of the computer to access the shared files. It works, I don't like doing it this way because the IP changes when I turn everything off at night then turn it back on, so I have to go through the hassle of finding the IP for the computer I want to access files.
Is there any alternative way of accessing the shared files without the "Connect to Server" method?