Mac OSX Leopard behaving like any ordinary Windows system?!?

I have been having a variety of issues since updating to Leopard. I have been a very satisfied mac user for over 7 years with no issues or needed support. Installing Leopard has put all that down the drain. I have a Dual 1.5 ghz Power G4 and 1.5 gb of ram. This computer has enough computer power to run Leopard. With that aside, Apple now says we need to have supported video cards, only to find that out AFTER buying Leopard and installing it. How can you release an OS and have to change a video card recently purchased before Leopard.. My computer used to run flawlessly until I updated. My computer does random "PC like" freezes and I have to sit for 5 mins until it snaps to it. Sometimes just to have Safari load or to Send an email..When the beach ball comes out, (I'm never in the mood to play when it does) I can't even force quit. I have tried the reinstall, a clean install, and even reinstalling on a different hard drive, and the same issues. Yes, all 3rd party software/enhancers were erased when I reformatted my drive and did a clean install.. Also, I cannot open Activity Monitor because I get a message that my permissions need to be repaired.. OK, that would be fine, if disk utility didn't freeze also.. Leopard has some amazing ideas and great tools, and anticipated the long waited release, but if they cant be used and/or start behaving like a PC....., then what's the point?

I don't think your lockups are caused by the video card, although not having a Core Graphics compatible card will kill a lot of the new effects and make the remaining ones very jerky. In my case, I was getting the interminable hang-ups and beachballs until I did a clean install without "Archive and Install" or "Migration Assistant". I had to keep the install absolutely clean, and manually copy over documents ONLY.
Further, I found that my external subwoofer (iSub) and one of my external drives were causing problems. Much better without them.

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She honestly only wants it for Photobooth, iChat and Garageband...
She's a musician...
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That's three probrams, not 2 and Photobooth and Garageband come with a new Mac, not with Leopard.
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Got my new Macbook Pro (OSX version 10.5.2), need to setup
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Good news! Adobe has released ColdFusion 8.01, which among
many other
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"rich.leach" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ft2k54$t2u$[email protected]..
> Update: ... just heard from Ben Forta: Since Leopard
came out after CF8
> technically it's unsupported, but any day Adobe will
release an updater
> for
> Leopard....
>
> Anyone have any success with the stand alone server,
port 8500? I turned
> off
> web sharing and rebooted, just for grins, and
> localhost:8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm still just
runs and runs, no
> messages or feedback at all. Anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rich
>

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http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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