SYROSL  just bought this app ten days ago, so far so good, but adding a little cocktail to it will be appreciated, like showing temperature or weather information, I think I'm not alone for this opinion, so waiting for another upgrade, and look forward to some new features from the dev..

btw, it's a good app and it worths the money. :D   
(Version 5.0.2)

BHOFF  I'm still not upgrading until the author adds weather/temperature data.  
(Version 5.0.2)

KOSOVAR1  EarthDesk is such a resource hog, I'm sure it would benefit from being rewritten as a 64-bit program. About once a week, there is a temporary defect in the downloaded cloud cover graphic function, which mars the desktop appearance. The solution seems to be to delete the cloud graphic file and let the program re-download it from scratch. Other than this, I think the feature set is fine and it makes a dynamic and fascinating desktop for my 24" iMac.  
(Version 5.1)

EARTHDESK  There is a setting to control this behavior in the Display Tab. You an either leave the last generated image on the screen, or remove it to restore the original desktop.  
(Version 5.0.1)

DCANNIS  With the latest versions (5.0.1)when I stopped Earthdesk the background turn with the map still loaded.

MacBook Pro unibody 15" Intel Core 2 Duo 2,40 GHz  
(Version 5.0.1)

MC_SHIZZEL  With the latest versions (5 and 5.0.1) I've noticed that sometimes the background will either turn black or white with the map partially loaded.  
(Version 5.0.1)

KOSOVAR1  I contacted the developer and was surprised to receive a response within two hours, along with the aforementioned (by Xeric Design) beta of EarthDesk attached. I installed beta 2 of version 5.0.1 and Voila! cloud images display now perfectly. Xeric Design's website references the known bug, although the wording there was much vaguer than how the developer explains it here. I'm living in Germany, using a brand new iMac running OSX 10.5.7 with the english module active, but with the international preference pane setting for German numbers formatting. That appears to have been the problem, but once again, EarthDesk works now without any further tinkering. Now that it works and because it seems the upgrade might be a bit snappier than version 4, I'm doubling my previous the rating, but especially for the super-fast email support.  
(Version 5.0)

KOSOVAR1  I've always liked this program when it worked. It worked well for a couple of years after I first bought version 1 or 2 (?). Then I upgraded to version 4, but it was months before I could get it to display satellite cloud images. Everything else worked OK, except for it drawing a bit heavily on system resources and being sluggish. Yesterday I upgraded--fool that I am!--to version 5 in spite of my past headaches with EarthDesk. Since then I've spent hours trying to figure out why, once again, the cloud image won't display. Since the time I was having problems with version 4 of EarthDesk, I'd switched from a Powerbook Pro 17" to a new iMac 24" and OSX version 10.5.7. The preference pane confirms "Cloud image downloaded:" with a specific date and time, but it also displays "Cloud image captured: Never" So what does this mean? I've already repaired permissions, reinstalled the preference pane, discarded the old cloud image manually and waited for the re-download, removed the old preference files, restarted, tinkered with preference pane settings, restored system permissions, over and over, and still no clouds. I am going to contact the developer again, and wait for his advice on something I haven't tried already.  
(Version 5.0)

KOSOVAR1  After purchasing and using EarthDesk for a couple of years, it simply stopped working on my notebook as of a month ago. I've tried every problem-solving trick I know (including re-installation), but EarthDesk just sits there displaying nothing. Before this, Earthdesk worked perfectly and was a very nice program which has become useless on my MacBook Pro running 1.5.4.   
(Version 4.3)

AWT  Requires a lot of memory, uninstallation prodedure provided only on support developers site. Better would be a, uninstaller as you have to go through user and home libraries, delete caches, preferences and so on. Anyway nice to look at sometimes.  
(Version 4.0.1)