Will Leopard require a GPU?

Will leopard require a GPU or can it be run using GMA950 or X3100?

 

It will run fine on GMA950 if previous OSes are of any indication. Many five-year-old Macs run OS X Tiger fine, so Leopard shouldn't be a concern of any sort.

 

leopard will certainly run just fine on the gma 950. no doubt. hands down.

 

It will work with integrated graphics - Core Animation (the most intensive GUI aspect of Leopard) will work with GMA950 just fine.

 

yeah, and luckily, every single computer available has one. . .

what kind of question is this?

 

thats really good to hear, i was worried all the new snazzy animations might not work in GMA950, but if thats the case then ill be purchasing a macbook soon

 

I will be buying my first Mac, can anyone tell me about the experience of using a Mac Operating system? I am very intrigued by macs, I have already decided what to get and such... Just wondering how "good" or "bad" the Mac OS is.

 

That's why you gotta love Macs, the system requirement for every new OS is the same as the previous OS. You dont have to upgrade your hardware to run the new OS, unlike some other OS's.

 

I think for almost anyone that has thoroughly used Mac OS X, they will say they love it. Its personal preference, so not 100% of people will be satisfied, but almost all Mac users love Mac OS X. Not the same case with Windows. Users use it but they don't necessarily love it. They just have to use it.

 

I particularly fell in love with Linux a while back, thought I would give Mac a good look, want to give it a try, of course I will be investing a lot in it, if it lasts at least 3 years, I will be good.

 

OS X has a lot of nice features and polish. It's also got its share of issues. (Finder is awful, that waiting icon is a beach ball in the sense that hell is a beach.) In my experience most Mac users seem blind to the OS's shortcomings. Maybe that's an indication of its quality... or the culture. Either way, you probably want to give it more than an hour's glance before you decide against it. Again, this is anecdotal, but it seems to me as though when OS X does go wrong, it tends to be weirder than Windows.

 

I don't think most Mac users are blind to the OS's shortcomings; all you need to do is look in a typical Mac forum for the past 5 years and you'll find tons of complaints about things like you mentioned.

I think that will be one of the nice things about Leopard though, as it looks like it will address a lot of those long-standing shortcomings, improving the Finder itself, and also allowing for a much more efficient and better performing system that shouldn't have so many "beachballs" that would bring down older versions of OS X.

 

simply put: IT'S NOT VISTA!

welcome to the mac world.

 

Thought about Vista, then I seen the new Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" no comparison, Mac hands down... I will be making my purchase as soon as Penryn comes out!

 

lol I mean that mac is not like vista with its ridiculous system requirement.

 

Or in a GUI that turns the system into molasses, speed-wise.

 

There's no ridiculous system requirement. Vista will run fine on a Macbook too.

 

Thank you! I know Vista will run ok on lower end systems, but its legacy is really annoying me. Everyone now thinks that a new OS is going to need everything under the sun in order to run properly because of the FUD about Vista.

 

All that flashy crap on Vista really doesn't need that memory just wastes it, I use Linux at the moment, and I can get the exact same "flashy" style as Vista, with less than a gig of RAM and a 3.0GHz Pentium 4.