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Last night I bought Leopard from the SoHo store in NYC, got the t-shirt and everything. I also bought iLife '08.
After backing everything up, I inserted the disc and selected Upgrade. I chose to 'Upgrade' and decided to install everything except X11 (which I never use) and all the language packs.
After watching the install for a few minutes, I left it with the message 'Time Remaining 2 hours, 43 minutes'
After watching about an hour of Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, I took a peek at what was going on. There was no DVD activity and it still said 'Time Remaining 2 hours, 43 minutes'. Oh dear. Another 30 minutes later, same message, so I aborted the install.
On restarting everything, selecting 'Upgrade' again, it tells me, there is nothing to upgrade. Clearly it had already trashed Tiger (as expected) but not installed anything. Great.
So... lets try again. This time, clean install. My Saturday morning would now be spent restoring everything.
Within a few minutes, the machine appeared to go silent again. 'Time Remaining 55 minutes'. 45 minutes later, 'Time Remaining 55 minutes'.
What's going on?
I took a look at the log, and there was some error about UI0 trying to open a folder, that wasn't there. I am not that great with error logs, so I was not sure if the problem was on the DVD, or the HDD.
So, tried everything yet again. Format, install...
Again, nothing.
Finally, I just tried installing including X11, and it worked... flawlessly.
One thing, when it first booted up, my fans went crazy and the system crawled. After looking in th Activity Monitor, it looked as though the system updater was trying to do something. Launching it manually killed the CPU hog, and it promptly downloaded the Remote Desktop client, 3.4 or something.
So, I am in Leopard right now...
Office 2004 installed flawlessly, but there are 4 software upgrades from the CD sold in 2006, one of them quite large.
iLife '08 also installs with no issues, as you'd expect, but there are 150MBs of updates already. If you're on a slow DSL line, you're in for a wait.
But I have a huge complaint, something so significant for me, I am eyeing up my Tiger disc. The Dock.
OK, I don't think it is THAT ugly, but it IS laggy. I mean really laggy. It's as bad as the Jaguar Dock was on a 128MB G3 iBook in 2002. Bear in mind I am in a 2ghz Intel machine, with 2 gigs of RAM. I'd hate to see this on a 1ghz G4 or lower.
Maybe there will be a fix for this, but the Dock for me is a huge part of the Mac experience.
Also, the folders are all this awful shade of blue, with no funky pictures or bright colours on them. It's almost like a poorly installed skin.
OK, so I am sore about losing everything and having to restore my life... but Leopard has not impressed me so far...
I'm sure it'll grow on me.
Please please please, backup before installing this. Or wait for 10.5.1...
After backing everything up, I inserted the disc and selected Upgrade. I chose to 'Upgrade' and decided to install everything except X11 (which I never use) and all the language packs.
After watching the install for a few minutes, I left it with the message 'Time Remaining 2 hours, 43 minutes'
After watching about an hour of Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, I took a peek at what was going on. There was no DVD activity and it still said 'Time Remaining 2 hours, 43 minutes'. Oh dear. Another 30 minutes later, same message, so I aborted the install.
On restarting everything, selecting 'Upgrade' again, it tells me, there is nothing to upgrade. Clearly it had already trashed Tiger (as expected) but not installed anything. Great.
So... lets try again. This time, clean install. My Saturday morning would now be spent restoring everything.
Within a few minutes, the machine appeared to go silent again. 'Time Remaining 55 minutes'. 45 minutes later, 'Time Remaining 55 minutes'.
What's going on?
I took a look at the log, and there was some error about UI0 trying to open a folder, that wasn't there. I am not that great with error logs, so I was not sure if the problem was on the DVD, or the HDD.
So, tried everything yet again. Format, install...
Again, nothing.
Finally, I just tried installing including X11, and it worked... flawlessly.
One thing, when it first booted up, my fans went crazy and the system crawled. After looking in th Activity Monitor, it looked as though the system updater was trying to do something. Launching it manually killed the CPU hog, and it promptly downloaded the Remote Desktop client, 3.4 or something.
So, I am in Leopard right now...
Office 2004 installed flawlessly, but there are 4 software upgrades from the CD sold in 2006, one of them quite large.
iLife '08 also installs with no issues, as you'd expect, but there are 150MBs of updates already. If you're on a slow DSL line, you're in for a wait.
But I have a huge complaint, something so significant for me, I am eyeing up my Tiger disc. The Dock.
OK, I don't think it is THAT ugly, but it IS laggy. I mean really laggy. It's as bad as the Jaguar Dock was on a 128MB G3 iBook in 2002. Bear in mind I am in a 2ghz Intel machine, with 2 gigs of RAM. I'd hate to see this on a 1ghz G4 or lower.
Maybe there will be a fix for this, but the Dock for me is a huge part of the Mac experience.
Also, the folders are all this awful shade of blue, with no funky pictures or bright colours on them. It's almost like a poorly installed skin.
OK, so I am sore about losing everything and having to restore my life... but Leopard has not impressed me so far...
I'm sure it'll grow on me.
Please please please, backup before installing this. Or wait for 10.5.1...