Are You Holding Off The Upgrade to Leopard?

[anirban]

Hello all!

As the title says, are you holding off the upgrade to Leopard for now? I plan to do an erase and install on my MBP, but I just have way too much stuff on it- and very less time to back them all up. Apart from that, I am waiting for 10.5.1 to be released before upgrading. I am also waiting for the applications to iron out the bugs they may have in Leopard. For now, Tiger is just more than enough for me to get my work done.

But this view of mine has come under.. criticism (for lack of a better word) by other Macintosh users.... so was just wondering what the general consensus is out here.

Thanks!

 

[Veritas&Equitas]

Yeah I held off...



for about 3 minutes.

Once I saw screen shots, the speed increases, and how much I could increase my productivity, I fed my hungry slot-loading drive the sexy little disc as soon as my mucky little fingers could cram it in.

No regrets so far!

 

[xUKHCx]

I jumped straight in and did an upgrade. There are some issues but no show stoppers.

There are a lot of people around that will be waiting until 10.5.1/.2/.3 before upgrading, or they will be waiting for mission critical applications to work.

 

[AdeFowler]

It depends what you use your Mac for. If you work on it, ie. make your living on it, I'd wait until all your apps are working and the kinks have been ironed out. If it's just surfing the web, email, iLife etc, I'd upgrade now.

 

[technicolor]

Wont upgrade until Thanksgiving or Xmas break. I dont need any headaches during the school week.

 

[anirban]

Well, this is interesting. I have some peer pressure now

I am still skeptical of everything going smoothly- hence I am reluctant to mess around with my computer during the semester.

as technicolor said, I might consider upgrading over christmas, but I had made up my mind to wait until 10.5.1 is released, but you folks are screwing around with my head now

 

[Blue Velvet]

Yes, I'm holding off... there's nothing in Leopard that will currently do anything for the apps that I need to run for my work; QuarkXpress, Creative Suite with some other graphics related apps.

Here I am today, typing this on Tiger on my MBP, on a machine that works exactly the way it did yesterday as I have work to do... so I'll wait for key app patches and maybe OS 10.5.2 or something.

 

[Palliser]

Yes, only because I just switched from PC to MAC about a month ago. So I'm still getting used to everything. So its all still new to me anyways!

 

[thomasp]

I'm going to be holding off until at least Christmas, when I can afford to have a bit of downtime on my computer (lots of Uni work, etc).

Leopard just doesn't jump out and say "Buy me!" in the same way that Tiger did... not really sure why. I think it's some of the UI changes that I don't like like the dock, menubar and folder icons. Also, I am only using a 1.5GHz G4 PowerBook (and watch a lot of DVDs on it...), so I'm a bit sceptical about how fast Leopard will be, and whether or not it'll make things worse, speed-wise.

 

[Doctor Q]

A guy in line with me said he won't install Leopard until after the first patch release. So why did he wait over 2 hours in line!?!?!?

 

[anirban]

A guy in line with me said he won't install Leopard until after the first patch release. So why did he wait over 2 hours in line!?!?!?

Did the free Tshirt have anything to do with that? Or maybe he wanted to buy batteries for his wireless Apple keyboard?

 

[IJ Reilly]

I'll probably wait until 10.5.1. I'm less worried about bugs in the initial release of Leopard (though there probably will be a few) than I am about figuring out how to migrate cleanly from the few applications I still need to use occasionally in Classic, which Apple so unceremoniously deleted from Leopard.

 

[imfrog2002]

I'm waiting until Christmas, mostly because I can't afford it, but I also want a fairly smooth running mac. I have to take my mac in once a month with new glitches anyway, and I don't need to open myself up to any more, thank you. (If you can't tell, I'm glitch prone. If it can happen, it will, with me...)

 

[zioxide]

Yeah, for two reasons

1. because I don't feel like dealing with all these little bugs

2. I don't have enough cash right now (especially with the $50 increase in edu)

I'll probably end up getting it for Christmas

 

[byakuya]

Yes, only because I just switched from PC to MAC about a month ago. So I'm still getting used to everything. So its all still new to me anyways!

I'm waiting also...
switched a little while ago (about 6 months now I guess) but I still find new stuff that amazes me so tiger is still "new" to me also

 

[XTRanger]

waiting until 10.5.1 comes out... there seems to be some minor issues with 10.5.0 that is making me stay back from upgrading..........