Leapin’ Leopards: Another Update

It’s only been seven months since Leopard leapt onto the scene but Apple’s now on its third major update with the release of OSX 10.5.3 (Note: There really should be names associated with these updates to give them some more marketing appeal because 10.5.3 does nothing to capture the imagination!)

Coming in at a whopping 450 420MB, 10.5.3 fixes a whole bunch of things (MacWorld reports that it’s precisely 70) that will surely make your Mac running better, faster, smarter and even better than Vista – or something like that. It does make you wonder, however, why there’s been three major upgrades for a product that was in development for four years.

Yeah, I know operating systems are complex beasts and software development always involves bugs but this is Apple we’re talking about – the king of design, ease-of-use, etcetera.

In any event, it is interesting to see how Apple updates are received differently than Windows updates. With Apple, most people say, “Cool, a Leopard update and proceed to download it right away”. With Windows, there’s a lot more skepticism to upgrade at a time when many people would love to downgrade from Vista.

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