OS 10.5 - Upgrade or No Upgrade: Leopard

XMARLTONX · XMARLTONX #1 (**permalink**)

03-23-2008, 10:11 PM

So I have been thinking of upgrading to Leopard. At first I wasn't too impressed, however I now have the need for some windows only software.

I could get Parallels or VM Fusion, but it seems Leopard has boot camp and a ton of other features, and it doesn't hurt to be up to date.

I was mostly worried about it slowing down my macbook (2.0ghz 2gb ram intel core 2 duo) and toast 8 not working with it, although I dont know if there are issues with that.

Basically I was wondering, does anyone have any great praise for leopard, or does anyone wish they never upgraded?

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #2 (**permalink**)

03-23-2008, 11:12 PM

Find Leopard fast, responsive and rock solid, although my advice to anyone needing to use Windows software is set up a cheap PC laptop such as a Dell Latitude Pentium 4 with 2GHz processor. Can get them for about $250.00.

MacRenegade · MacRenegade #3 (**permalink**)

03-24-2008, 06:38 AM

I regret I didn't upgrade earlier!

Rambaud · Rambaud #4 (**permalink**)

03-24-2008, 06:52 AM

It will depend on your individual circumstances.

I have both but prefer Panther (just), and have reverted to Panther on my internal drive with Leopard on my external drive.

XMARLTONX #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 14, 2007 Location: Marlton, NJ Posts: 852 Mac Specs: 3.06 iMac i3\|12GB\|500GB	03-23-2008, 10:11 PM So I have been thinking of upgrading to Leopard. At first I wasn't too impressed, however I now have the need for some windows only software. I could get Parallels or VM Fusion, but it seems Leopard has boot camp and a ton of other features, and it doesn't hurt to be up to date. I was mostly worried about it slowing down my macbook (2.0ghz 2gb ram intel core 2 duo) and toast 8 not working with it, although I dont know if there are issues with that. Basically I was wondering, does anyone have any great praise for leopard, or does anyone wish they never upgraded? 3.06 i3 iMac \| 500 GB \| 12 GB \| 10.7 1.25 DP MDD \| 480 GB \| 512 MB \| 10.5.8 1.6 SP G5 \| 80 GB \| 2 GB \| 10.5.8 iPhone 4 White \| 16GB
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harryb2448 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,095 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	03-23-2008, 11:12 PM Find Leopard fast, responsive and rock solid, although my advice to anyone needing to use Windows software is set up a cheap PC laptop such as a Dell Latitude Pentium 4 with 2GHz processor. Can get them for about $250.00.
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Rambaud #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 15, 2006 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 236	03-24-2008, 06:52 AM It will depend on your individual circumstances. I have both but prefer Panther (just), and have reverted to Panther on my internal drive with Leopard on my external drive.
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