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Do you regret upgrading to Leopard?
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I DO regret installing Leopard. Running it on 3 Macs. Left Tiger on old iMac and I thank God I did. I can't sync my Treo to Address Book and iCal with Leopard. Have to sync old iMac to dotMac and then sync Treo to old iMac. It's a pain. Also, Adobe's In Design acts badly in Leopard. For example, I can't "save as." In Design just shuts down. Creates a problem for me.
Kashchei
macrumors 65816
Regret (in the thread title) may be a bit strong, but GNice is at the other end of the spectrum entirely. GNice, you must be one of the few upgraders that hasn't had any problems at all so far.
That's right...no problems at all. Zero, zilch! And I don't think I'm one of a few. Many haven't had problems. Those of us that haven't had issues haven't been nearly as vocal as those that have...that's what actually prompted my response. I think those of us that have had positive upgrade experiences probably need to make it more known. Think about about...one doesn't typically "shout" it works since that's the expected behavior. However, if something is broken it is expected that one would voice displeasure. Maybe you know something I don't (empirical evidence), but I think it's a bit much to say only a few people haven't had upgrade issues.
macbwizard
macrumors 6502
I haven't had any problems either. Leopard for me has been great and I like it so much more than Tiger. Spotlight is blazing fast and it feels like the whole OS is much faster as well. Leopard has been the best OS upgrade that I've ever performed by actually increasing the performance of my mac (1st gen MBP). Sorry to hear that you guys are having problems.. I find Leopard and its apps to be much more stable.
vansouza
macrumors 68000
Kashchei
macrumors 65816
I'm happy to be proven wrong. I was only using the ratio of complaints vs. praise on leopard threads on this forum as a guide, and, as you said, people are more likely to complain than not.
daneoni
macrumors G5
I installed Leopard on another partition (Thank God) about 2 weeks after release and was underwhelmed. Stacks was a huge disaster, the Dock was waay ugly and hardly usable. I did appreciate that Safari was significantly faster than Tiger despite both OS having version 3. Same thing for Finder.
But networking in system preferences was slightly weird partly due to Internet Connect being MIA in Leopard. Then there was the permissions issue, it was slow and always caused my CPU and hence fans to rev up.
I tried to live with it for a few weeks but ultimately decided to go back to Tiger and delete the Leopard partition and i'm much more happy
Shame you can't get macs with Tiger pre-installed instead of Leopard. Looks like i'll be hanging on to my iMac for a while.
Leopard is not a disaster....far from it. Its just not much of a successor to Tiger for me
But networking in system preferences was slightly weird partly due to Internet Connect being MIA in Leopard. Then there was the permissions issue, it was slow and always caused my CPU and hence fans to rev up.
I tried to live with it for a few weeks but ultimately decided to go back to Tiger and delete the Leopard partition and i'm much more happy
Shame you can't get macs with Tiger pre-installed instead of Leopard. Looks like i'll be hanging on to my iMac for a while.
Leopard is not a disaster....far from it. Its just not much of a successor to Tiger for me
No regrets...couple of minor issues with mail and stacks but 10.5.2 hopefully will take care of them.
max1018
macrumors member
I upgraded a couple of days ago, and the biggest thing for me is Wi-Fi on my MacBook. Cannot connect to my Netgear router, drops my other router when connected without the power supply and is generally unstable. I am going to hold out until 10.5.2 to see whether they fix the problems or not (which apparently should be fixed then) 🙁
No Way
Leopard is amazing it might of been hyped a little to much but I definantly don't regret it. The only problem i've ran into was that certain features of pro tools (a sound editing tool) havn't worked well
Leopard is amazing it might of been hyped a little to much but I definantly don't regret it. The only problem i've ran into was that certain features of pro tools (a sound editing tool) havn't worked well
I have the exact same problem. My airport singal keeps dropping and then reconnecting. Hopefully Apple fixes this.
Kashchei
macrumors 65816
I'm having the same problem on my wife's MacBook as well. I'm pleased that some people have had no problems with Leopard, but I think this is the least ready-for-primetime version of OS X since the original
BlakTornado
Guest
I upgraded just over 10 hours ago and had one problem with Final Cut Express 4 (which I installed shortly after) - a minor freeze that lasted no more than 15 seconds.
I love it! I really do!
I haven't tried every app I own but I've tried a few and they work (Except Adium which has trouble connecting to MSN - but that is a known 3rd party issue and easily resolved by downloading the Microsoft Client temporarily). If anything, all I can say is praises. I made an initial list of good and bad things about Leopard about an hour after I installed it and a few hours later, I could cancel out almost all of the bad things with something good instead.
It's great! I recommend it to everyone who can run it on their computers. Really, a good buy.
I love it! I really do!
I haven't tried every app I own but I've tried a few and they work (Except Adium which has trouble connecting to MSN - but that is a known 3rd party issue and easily resolved by downloading the Microsoft Client temporarily). If anything, all I can say is praises. I made an initial list of good and bad things about Leopard about an hour after I installed it and a few hours later, I could cancel out almost all of the bad things with something good instead.
It's great! I recommend it to everyone who can run it on their computers. Really, a good buy.
kajitox
macrumors 6502a
I would agree with this about 100%; the hype was over the top and I would have gotten it with our without the hype.
From the perspective of the average user I think the hype may of been overdone. I believe Leopard offer's far more for the developer.
djejrejk
macrumors 6502a
I have had no problems other than a slight CS3 UI problem that was patched. Tiger crashed very infrequently, Leopard has not crashed on my MBP so far *crossing my fingers*
Then again, my MBP is not a production machine.
dukebound85
macrumors Core
max1018
macrumors member
Yeah, many people still think this is a hardware problem, having not heard about pretty much everyone else's problems with Leopard. Let's just hope that 10.5.2 fixes it, or some kind of update before that.
leopard
Why is everybody speaking so highly about Leopard ? face it, what is this amazing thing you all speak of ? Spaces ? quicklook ? Those two are the only functions that is useable. Time Machine is silly. No way to configure it at all. The new dock is for child and chumps and don´t get me started on Stacks.
Ask yourself this, what could you NOT use with Tiger that you can with Leopard ? ( except for Spaces and Time Machine )
With Tiger, everything worked and going from everything to something just because of Spaces and Time Machine is not making any sense at all.
I may have missed out on some points, but for me, this is the case.
Why is everybody speaking so highly about Leopard ? face it, what is this amazing thing you all speak of ? Spaces ? quicklook ? Those two are the only functions that is useable. Time Machine is silly. No way to configure it at all. The new dock is for child and chumps and don´t get me started on Stacks.
Ask yourself this, what could you NOT use with Tiger that you can with Leopard ? ( except for Spaces and Time Machine )
With Tiger, everything worked and going from everything to something just because of Spaces and Time Machine is not making any sense at all.
I may have missed out on some points, but for me, this is the case.
kajitox
macrumors 6502a
I keep hearing all kinds of complaints about Stacks, QuickLook, and Spaces, but I believe these are the most useful functions of Leopard! I have found that these functions, when used correctly, greatly improve productivity and ease of use of the operating system. I find Stacks wonderful to access files that I use every day instead of cluttering a desktop. I love Quicklook for my Word documents and powerpoint presentations; I'd say I probably use it many times per day. And Spaces I love using instead of filling my screen with windows. As someone who loves to take pictures, surf the web, use iTunes and chat on multiple IM programs at once (and more) I love having the option to split my desktop into more logical "pieces" to to speak.
Edit: And I completely forgot to mention screen sharing is WONDERFUL. I have used it countless times to help out my not-so-Mac-literate friends.
