Comments on: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard: Five Reasons to Wait

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:47:47 +0000

My new Mac OS X version 10.5. I am having trouble. Lost my main computer network. When I proceed to correct I am asked to enter my administrator name and pasword. I am set up as a standard account and won’t recognize my name and password. Please help.

By: Stephen Goodenough

Stephen Goodenough — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:57:43 +0000

I attempted an Archive and Install on my iMac this last weekend, which was rather disappointing to say the least. I’d done a cloned back up and also tried to make sure I’d removed any APE or similar hacks. The A & I took about 2 hours after which the system appeared to be working, but …

Performance was terrible (even after Spotlight had finished indexing). .Mac sync wasn’t working (although it works fine on my other 10.4 machines and on the iMac prior to updating) and I was getting “PubSubAgent has quite unexpectedly” errors every few minutes. Despite spending some hours trying, I couldn’t get the iMac to find my network printer (attached to a small Linux box running CUPS) although in my previous Tiger system it “all just worked”. After 3 days struggling I reverted to my backup. A shame because I liked QuickLook and was eager to try the new codes in IChat which I use every day when I’m away from home. I can’t see me trying again until Christmas when I’ll have a few days to try and make sure that all the problems get resolved.

By: Lawerance Oak

Lawerance Oak — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:07:33 +0000

I too have upgraded and I have yet to have any problems. Just did a straight upgrade over my existing OS which was Tiger. I haven’t noticed anything major with the OS. I should note I am just installing this on my laptop which is used for more common things verses my G5.

If anything I have noticed I have just noticed application problems verses OS. I will be running the bigger test this weekend when I use the Adobe Creative Suit in full action.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:52:06 +0000

My upgrade went quite well. Everything seems to be working as expected (except Dashboard crashed on me once). This definitely is a drastically new OS version. There are some little things that I dislike (removal of Music, Pictures, etc from the sidebar, the sidebar icons being really tiny, the light in front of open apps in the Dock not being quite noticeable enough, etc.), but all in all I am quite happy with Leopard. I just got done installing it on my second machine tonight (I was going to give it a week to see how things went initially).

I’m always extremely cautious on any new OS. I’ve learned that it’s a really good idea to wipe your HD before installing the OS after backing up everything. Generally my upgrades have gone smoothly in the past, but It’s not a bad idea to just have a clean system even if you don’t foresee any problems. Previous OS versions just leave a bunch of files behind that the new OS has no idea what to do with. Sometimes files can be left behind that can cause conflicts if you just do the default “upgrade” install. The “archive and install” option works pretty well If you don’t want to take the extra time to wipe out everything. Also, be sure to check if the apps you use day-to-day are already Leopard compatible. Some of mine did not explicitly state being so anywhere but run flawlessly under Leopard anyway.