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Announcement

Information Technology New Product Review

Apple Macintosh Operating System Upgrade

OS X 10.5 Leopard

On October 26 Apple released the latest upgrade to the Mac operating system to OS X 10.5 Leopard. This document is a review of the new operating system.

The following programs have been informally tested and seem to work properly:

Office 2004

Mac Mail

Entourage 2004

Cisco VPN 4.9.01

Meeting Maker 8.5 client

Safari 3.0.4

Foxfire 2.0.0.8

Adobe Reader 8.1.1

Dreamweaver 8.0

Contribute 4.0

Real Player 10.1.0

Windows Media Player 9

The following browsers have been informally tested and are not recommended for accessing the Portal:

Internet Explorer 5.2

Netscape 7.1

If you have questions about upgrading your operating system contact the Information Technology Help Desk at ext 1400 or visit the Information Technology Help Desk Walk–In Center in the Oviatt Library Garden Level.

Changes in Macintosh OS X 10.5

The new Macintosh operating system has a redesigned desktop as well as new features that make better use of your desktop and make organizing files much easier.

Desktop Redesign

The Leopard desktop is basically the same, with a transparent look to windows and to the Dock plus new file stacks that are pop–ups that organize desktop space in a more economical way.

destop redesign

Finder Additions

Now you can actually see your files in the Finder — not just as icons, but as they really look. Using Cover Flow, you can flip through your documents as easily as you flip through album art in iTunes. Cover Flow displays each file as a large preview of its first page, and you can click through multi page documents or play movies.

finder additions

Quick Look

Browse, play, view, and page through your files. Without opening them.

quick look

Time Machine

See how your system looked on a given day and restore files with a click. Every hour, every day, an incremental backup of your Mac is made automatically as long as your backup drive is attached to your Mac. Time Machine saves the Time Machine icon hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month. Only files created and then deleted before the next hourly backup will not be included in the long term. Put another way: You’re well covered.

time machine

Spaces

Create custom workspaces to stay clutter–free and organized. You do a lot on your Mac. So how do you keep order when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your application windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a space for everything and makes it easy to switch between your spaces.

spaces

Boot Camp

Run Windows at native speed. Boot Camp supports the most popular 32–bit releases of Windows XP and Windows Vista. When you use either operating system on your Mac, your Windows applications will run at native speed. Windows applications have full access to multiple processors and multiple cores, accelerated 3D graphics, and high–speed connections like USB, FireWire, Wi–Fi, and Gigabit Ethernet.

boot camp

Symantec LiveUpdate Issues for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

Symantec advises running LiveUpdate before upgrading to Leopard to get the latest versions of Norton Mac products.  For more information visit the Symantec Leopard compatibility page at http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/0/0a49831366880dcd652573800068396e?OpenDocument 

Norton AntiVirus 10 for Mac is listed as compatible with the following note:
If you encounter any problems with running LiveUpdate and downloading the virus definitions, install the latest version of LiveUpdate http://service1.symantec.com/Support/num.nsf/docid/2007102922255911?Open&docid=2007102700270911&nsf=num.nsf&view=0
For other 10.5 Leopard compatibility issues, visit Macintouch’s web site at http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/compat.html.

How to Get Leopard for Your Macintosh

If your work Macintosh is part of the yearly Apple AMP Licensing Program, your local technical support person will be able to upgrade it for you. Check with your local support person or contact Chris Sales at ext. 7497 for more details.
To buy Leopard for your personal Macintosh, take advantage of the great discount offered by the Matador Bookstore.  Please see one of the representatives at the computer kiosk in the rear of the Bookstore or at the front checkout if you have questions.  Visit the Matador bookstore online at http://www.csun.edu/universitycorporation/bookstore.html.

For additional information about alerts, call the Information Technology Help Desk at: (818) 677–1400, or on campus: ext. 1400, email: helpdesk@csun.edu.