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#1 2007-10-30 10:04 am
Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I am so glad I resisted the urge to upgrade to Leopard on the release date. I have spent lots of time since the release date reading about others experiences, and whatever under the hood performance increases Leopard might offer, it just isn't worth the headaches and usability problems at this point.
I'm not saying I would never upgrade, but Leopard will have to be a lot more stable and usable before I will install it. Tiger is rock solid on my machine, and I see no reason to ride the bleeding edge.
Anyone else holding off for awhile? What will have to change in Leopard for you to upgrade?
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#2 2007-10-30 10:06 am
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I'll be holding off a long time. I mean, I have Tiger, and it's serving me well. 10.5 is just not worth the $$$ yet. Maybe I'll get .6 or .7, who knows.
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#4 2007-10-30 10:18 am
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I have at home, but at work I'm just gonna wait 'till Adobe puts out a patch. Then I'll most likely be OK to do it. I haven't found any show stoppers at home, but hearing that Adobe has found "a few bugs" in "limited testing" tells me to wait.
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#5 2007-10-30 10:20 am
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Does CS2 work with Leopard at all? Or is one forced to upgrade to CS3 to run Leopard?
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#6 2007-10-30 10:22 am
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I won't be installing it because I don't have the money, however, I am getting a new MacBook this week and it will have Leopard.
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#7 2007-10-30 10:42 am
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I have an older Mac (G5), so I held off on ordering it, but I went to the Apple store last Friday and played around with it. I really dont like the dock, folder icons, menu bar look, and I am worried about whether it would slow my machine down rather than be peppier and more efficient. I dont have intel chips on my machine and I get the feel like this OS is really geared for that and not necessarily mine. I know I can run it, but I dont really know if I should. I do plan on updating the OS at some point, but I'm probably going to hold back until revisions are made.
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#8 2007-10-30 10:48 am
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
StaticAge wrote:
I have an older Mac (G5), so I held off on ordering it, but I went to the Apple store last Friday and played around with it. I really dont like the dock, folder icons, menu bar look, and I am worried about whether it would slow my machine down rather than be peppier and more efficient. I dont have intel chips on my machine and I get the feel like this OS is really geared for that and not necessarily mine. I know I can run it, but I dont really know if I should. I do plan on updating the OS at some point, but I'm probably going to hold back until revisions are made.
FWIW, both my G4 machines feel faster with Leopard, so I think your G5 will be OK.
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#9 2007-10-30 11:00 am
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Zander wrote:
I won't be installing it because I don't have the money, however, I am getting a new MacBook this week and it will have Leopard.
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#10 2007-10-30 11:04 am
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I see no reason to upgrade. I don't like pretty much any of the arbitrary UI changes, and I'm not going to blow another 4 GB of hard drive space and 512 MB of RAM on eye candy. I have work to do.
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#11 2007-10-30 11:20 am
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Hey..has anyone heard any rumors about 10.4.11? I thought that it would be out by now...
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#12 2007-10-30 11:45 am
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I won't be upgrading to Leopard until I upgrade my computers, in another 6 months or so. Should have most of the bugs out by then.
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#13 2007-10-30 11:57 am
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Zander wrote:
I won't be installing it because I don't have the money, however, I am getting a new MacBook this week and it will have Leopard.
Am i missing something?
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#14 2007-10-30 12:28 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Maybe he's "getting" a new mac in the sense of "receiving as a present"
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#15 2007-10-30 12:34 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Random User wrote:
Does CS2 work with Leopard at all? Or is one forced to upgrade to CS3 to run Leopard?
Here's Adobe's .pdf on the subject of Leopard compatibility:
Adobe PR dept wrote:
Q. Will older versions of Adobe creative software—such as Creative Suite 2 and Macromedia Studio 8 software—support Mac OS X Leopard?
A. While older Adobe applications may install and run on Mac OS X Leopard, they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may, therefore, experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Leopard. For a complete overview of compatibility between Adobe creative applications and Mac OS X Leopard, see the chart on page 2.
In other words, "We really hope you do encounter problems so you're forced to buy the upgrade."
I'm in a similar situation with Rapidweaver, a website design app which came out with a paid upgrade recently. I hadn't planned to upgrade to their latest version, since I'm happy with the current app's abilities.
For me, this question of software compatibility is the big thing holding me back. The last thing I want to do is spend $$ on new versions of software in cases where I'm happy with the old version.
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#16 2007-10-30 12:35 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
its DLANTZ again.... wrote:
Zander wrote:
I won't be installing it because I don't have the money, however, I am getting a new MacBook this week and it will have Leopard.
Am i missing something?
I'm guess all of the money was spent on a new machine and theirfore "DLANTZ again" lacks an addtional 129 to upgrade the balance of his computers.
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#17 2007-10-30 12:58 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I'm not installing it. My system is exactly how I want it to be. Upgrading would mean a lot of work getting everything back to how I want it again.
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#18 2007-10-30 1:17 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I wasn't going to, but I ended up getting a copy. I'll slap it on the G5, see how it works.
And you can bet I'll be doing an archive & install. Thanks, early adopters!
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#19 2007-10-30 1:23 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I'm glad I got it. It has been ROCK solid. I haven't had any apps crash or blue screens. Maybe I am just lucky? 
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#20 2007-10-30 1:24 pm
Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I have it, it's sitting on my desk. I've ordered an external hard drive. I want to do a backup before I install. I may also wait until a point release or two.
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#21 2007-10-30 2:22 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
yup 
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#22 2007-10-30 3:10 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
Mines supposed to be here soon, so not yet. Maybe there will be some updates out by the time I get it installed.
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#23 2007-10-30 4:45 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I am standing pat with 10.4 hor the time being. Tiger is just absolutely stable and functional for me and at least from what I have been reading in reviews for every cool new thing in 10.5 there are 3 that just blow chunks
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#24 2007-10-30 4:49 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I'm strickly bleeding edge. However, I will install it from scratch on an separate HD, not my main boot drive. That way I can have the best of all worlds.
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#25 2007-10-30 5:06 pm
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Re: Anyone else NOT installing Leopard?
I installed it at home, but I will wait and wait and wait to do it at work; no sense in putting my production machines at risk of not working right.
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