I was just wondering how many people are going to get leopard when it comes out and how many are going to wait for 10.5.1 to see how stable it is and for bug fixes.
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10.5 or 10.5.1
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10.5.0 for sure! I can't wait to get my hands on it.
I love working out the bugs in new software. Too bad I could not be a beta user for Leopard. I would have loved it.
10.5.0 for sure as well. I got tiger when it was 10.4.0 and had no issues. After all, this isn't Microsoft having to worry about billions of combinations of hardware. Any bugs will be minimal and the productivity increase and convenience of having all the newest features will far out weigh any problems you may incur.
The earlier builds for Tiger on Intel were awful, at least for some...personally I suffered the random shutdown syndrome on my Macbook...
wasn't that a hardware issuse, my housemate had those and the took it away for repair. Something to do with temperature sensor wire being faulty.
I'll be on 10.5.0 just like i was on 10.4.0
I'll get it on the first day it's released.
Of course I'm backing up before installing just in case it is too buggy, but I expect it to be fairly solid.
I had no major problems when I loaded 10.4.0 on the first day that was released
Of course I'm backing up before installing just in case it is too buggy, but I expect it to be fairly solid.
I had no major problems when I loaded 10.4.0 on the first day that was released
I think I might wait until 10.5.1 mainly because I have no idea if the current software I have running will support 10.5 right off the bat, so I figure I should give the makers some extra time to start shipping 10.5 compatible versions, which I figure will be around the same time that 10.5.1 comes out.
Good question.
I *had* been planning on 10.5.1, to avoid bugs, but some of the posts I've seen here about the likelihood of the bugs being worked out already have got me second-guessing that... I guess I'll live if I'm an early adopter (although I hope there aren't going to be any of those "MacBook random shutdowns")
I *had* been planning on 10.5.1, to avoid bugs, but some of the posts I've seen here about the likelihood of the bugs being worked out already have got me second-guessing that... I guess I'll live if I'm an early adopter (although I hope there aren't going to be any of those "MacBook random shutdowns")
10.5.1
I'm 99% confident that there won't be any problems with Leopard as it hits shelves. But I can't afford any disruption, so I'll let everyone else test the waters first. You never really know until the code is on ten million systems in the real world. I've been waiting two years so far, another month won't make much of a difference.
I'm 99% confident that there won't be any problems with Leopard as it hits shelves. But I can't afford any disruption, so I'll let everyone else test the waters first. You never really know until the code is on ten million systems in the real world. I've been waiting two years so far, another month won't make much of a difference.
Using errr.. just about every OS launch I've seen as a template...
10.5.1 will be out a few short weeks after 10.5 is released. It will fix things that they knew about in the Gold Master - but ran out of time to fix, or issues they found between GM and shipping.
10.5.2 will be the version to address some of the issues that spring up as a result of a much wider use base and hardware/software combinations. No product survives contact with the enemy ...errr... customer. Probably see that around January.
10.5.3 will be the point where things are beginning to settle down. Figure April 2008.
So, there WILL be issues, and it will take about 6 months before most of them are sorted out. However... just how much those issues impact on you depends on exactly what you are doing. Some people had lots of problems with early versions of Tiger - but I was using it from 10.4.0 and never encountered anything specific.
Of course Tiger on Intel was another whole ball of wax. While Apple had been keeping a parallel development of OSX going all these years, it is blatantly obvious that - while functional - it lacked the polish of the PPC version. They did enough to get it out the door with the new intel machines, but sitting them side by side there are a few niggeling little areas where things dont always "just work" unlike the PPC experience.
Leopard will be the first true intel release for the OS - and its going to be very interesting to see how it works out. I'll be puting 10.5 on my Mac Book. If the software I need works and there are not show stoppers then my Mac Pro is next. Otherwise it is going to have to wait a bit.
I've got some nice external firewire dirives that get used to clone my systems - so in the worst case I can always roll back.
10.5.0 for me - I just can't resist new Apple stuff, for the most part. Will probably archive and install, though just in case. Or better yet, install it first on my external HD and boot up from that.
I'll scrutinise macrumors to see how the early adopters get on. If there are no issues that are likely to effect me then I'll get 10.5.0. Otherwise I'll wait longer. I'm happy using Tiger until Leopard is sorted.