'Speculation' Category
Leopard Student Pricing + Exam Software Warning
$69 for Some Students
You may have already read this elsewhere, but just in case, here’s the scoop: Some schools are selling Leopard for $69. Reports from several Mac Law Students readers have confirmed this. So if you are interested in picking up Leopard, check with your student bookstore before you try the Apple Education Store [...]Law School Apps and Leopard
As I mentioned earlier, Apple hasn’t sent the shipping version of Leopard to third-party developers yet. This means that although most of them have a pretty good idea of how their apps will work in Leopard, it’s difficult for some of them to be 100% sure. Will Leopard introduce small glitches here and there? Probably. [...]
Leopard and Third-Party Apps
Steven Frank of Panic (the folks who make CandyBar, Coda, Desktastic, Stattoo, Transmit, and Unison) has written about why third-party developers don’t necessarily know if their apps will have any glitches in Leopard:
It increasingly looks like we won’t be getting access to the final build of Leopard until the same day our customers do. We [...]Look Before You Leap Into Leopard
If your school uses a Mac-native exam software package (see here for a rundown on exam software and a listing of what some schools use), you should check with the IT department to be sure they’ll support Leopard for upcoming exams. If you’re at a SofTest school that allows use of Boot Camp for exams, [...]
Leopard for Law Students
Mac OS X 10.5 (aka “Leopard”) is due some time this month. If earlier precedent holds, the OS upgrade will cost students $69. While there are dozens of new features in Leopard, here are the ones that jump out at me as being of interest to law students:
Preview will have improved PDF annotation and markup [...]