Disappointed from Mac OS X Leopard (for now)

I am a Mac convert. For an year now. The first month it was really painful, but when I got the "right" mental model it became a real pleasure. I guess people get so inflamable on the Mac vs. Win issue because of the one month of sufferings.

The one thing that made me really appreciate Mac was that it *just worked*. Having worked on Windows and Linux beforehand, it was really amazing to see that many things done intuitively.

And I installed Leopard. Big Mistake. Sure, there are many improvements, but apart the Time Machine there's nothing really new. Of course, there are many little improvements - over 300 according to Apple. And that's the biggest problem - this would be a nice evolution of the OS (something like the Service Packs under Windows, which by the way are FREE) if it didn't cause me so much problems.

Before installing Leopard my Mac was pretty stable. Everything worked perfectly well, no hangups.. pure pleasure. After the upgrade the system became more instable.
- Before the 10.5.1 fix I couldn't connect to the Wi-Fi network at work because WPA was broken. So, one week or so I was using a 10m long cable to connect to the network.
- After the 10.5.1 WPA works again (yess!) but my Ethernet card is acting weird. When I plug the cable in, it is shown as "connected" and after one second it becomes "disconnected". Tried with all kinds of cables. You have to retry 5-6 times and hope that it will realise that the cable is still there.
- On three occasions KeyNote (from iWorks'08) restarted the computer. You press "Start the presentation" button and you get the nice little "booting up" screen. Great thing to get in the middle of a presentation. Or just after adding several complex animations (which you might loose even if you've pressed "save" beforehand).
- For two days now the clipboard is working like crap. Some applications just ignore the text copied from certain other applications. I can't copy the URL of a web page from Safary and paste it in Mail. WTF?
- Safari and Preview are buggy. Sometimes doing a simple copy of a text makes them hang up. Great when you have 7-8 tabs or documents opened and you HAVE to restart the application. Long gone are the old days of Safari 2 when I really didn't worry that the browser might hang and I'd have to look up the same information AGAIN.
- Mail crashed several times. Afterwards several e-mails were messed up - the senders were exchanged. I almost replied to the NS2 mailing list that I didn't want to participate in a Photoshop study course.

Even with all these problems, I still feel better with Mac than with Windows. However, Apple wants us to believe that Macs are inherently better than PCs. But, in order to achieve this, they must produce rock-solid products EVERY time. Which they don't. So, yes.. they're just humans.

To put it simply - OS X 10.5.2 will be the thing that 10.5.0 should have been (at least I hope so) - an evolution of the OS that should make the life more pleasant and most importantly - care-free.