Is it Time.....this is the Question? Opinions Please
Is it time...this is the question?
Every 3 or 4 months since the release of Leopard I ask myself this question. I've been using Apple's Tiger operating system since it was released and I've been extremely happy with it and more to the point so has my aging iBook G4. "Circa Mid 2005" I've had almost no problems running Tiger, it's the most stable OS I've ever used and for the most part the only issues that have ever given me grief or frustration has been 3rd party software and plug-ins for Safari. However recently I've started noticing that more and more software developers are not offering OS 10-4 updates and their new software versions will not work on the Tiger OS and/or require an Intel processor. It annoys me when I read about some great new software I'd like to try only to find out it won't work without Leopard.
I guess my question is two fold really, will upgrading to the Leopard OS give me a better computing experience on an older machine, or am I going to be held back regardless because my laptop still uses a PPC processor? At this stage I'm not really considering buying a new laptop as this one is perfectly fine and until now has been bulletproof! What is the experience/opinions of other Mac users who upgraded their older machines to Leopard? Was it worth the hassle and after the initial interest in a new operating system wares off would you recommend upgrading?
So is it time.........or should I wait until this machine dies and makes this question a mute point?
Hi Raymon!
The kind of question we are all faced with at some time! Bear in mind that the following are only my opinions, as this is all very subjective!
It annoys me when I read about some great new software I'd like to try only to find out it won't work without Leopard
The main reason why I upgraded to Leopard was to run iLife 9. The other reason was that Leopard is likely to be the final OS upgrade for a PPC Mac.
will upgrading to the Leopard OS give me a better computing experience on an older machine
Define 'better'! I have only run Leopard for 2 weeks but so far, as in Tiger, I have had no crashes of any kind. BTW, updates to Quicktime 7.6 and security update 2009-001 are vital. The real answer depends on the speed of your Mac. Leopard is a bit more resource hungry than Tiger, but I have noticed no changes in operating speed, and certainly no slow downs. Leopard has a lot of eye candy: using all of it uses extra resources, but they can all be switched off! But I like the new versions of iTunes and Front Row.
Was it worth the hassle and after the initial interest in a new operating system wares off would you recommend upgrading?
See above! But it was no hassle. Use the Archive and Install method for upgrading. Best of all, clone your entire system to a bootable external drive before upgrading, then if all else fails you can always go back to good ol' Tiger.
The one thing you WILL notice is that repairing permissions on Leopard takes at least half an hour! On Tiger it takes 2 minutes!
Just in case you forgot: check that your Mac meets the minimum specifications for Leopard, and you need a minimum of 1GB of RAM despite what they claim!
Good luck!
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edit:
image 1 wifi
image 2 wired
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