# The Leopard Backlash

- Link: https://www.timprobst.com/2007/11/09/the-leopard-backlash/
- Published: 2007-11-09T17:07:05-06:00
- Author: Tim Probst

As my good friend, Scott Driza, so [eloquently pointed out](http://www.hobbub.com/2007/11/05/slow-mac-leopard/)
on his blog, [Hobbub.com](http://www.hobbub.com/), there has been some negative 
press coming out about Apple’s latest operating system release, Mac OS X Leopard.
While I haven’t had a chance to install Leopard on my own Mac, I find it incredibly
difficult to believe some of the claims coming from historically pro-PC web sites
and magazines. As far as I’m concerned, Walt Mossberg and David Pogue have given
Leopard their seal of approval, and that’s good enough for me. Both of those guys
know their stuff when it comes to the Mac so I trust and respect their opinion. 
While I also have respect for magazines like eWeek, I know that they are relatively
new to the Mac scene so I take a lot of what they say with a grain of salt. I know
their experience is mainly with Windows, and that’s cool because I use Windows at
work and like to keep up with what is going on in that world too. Anyway, I have
a feeling a lot of the negative comments about Leopard are being a bit overblown
now that Apple is in the mainstream spotlight, and really, that’s a good thing because
it will only make Apple work harder to make their products that much better, and
that must really have their competition shaking in their boots. Many of Apple’s 
products are already industry standards for quality so just imagine the products
they will introduce thanks to the increased coverage and pressure from the mainstream
press and Wall Street.

For those of you that want to get the scoop on everything going on in the Mac world,
I would suggest [Macworld](http://www.macworld.com), [TUAW](http://www.tuaw.com),
[MacRumors](http://www.macrumors.com), and [AppleInsider](http://www.appleinsider.com).