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Is it worth upgrading to Leopard for the iPhone?

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glanv

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Hello everybody!

Just wondering whether I should upgrade to Leopard for the iPhone 3g? Been wanting to do it for a few months, so may as well anyway. If anyone knows of any advantages to doing this please post.

If I was to stick with Tiger, does anyone know if I was to upgrade to Leopard after pairing the phone with Tiger, would I encounter and problems / difficulties?

Cheers!
 
i doubt very much there would be any problems when upgrading, and you dont have to have leopard for the iphone, do you?
 
glanv said:
Hello everybody!

Just wondering whether I should upgrade to Leopard for the iPhone 3g? Been wanting to do it for a few months, so may as well anyway. If anyone knows of any advantages to doing this please post.

If I was to stick with Tiger, does anyone know if I was to upgrade to Leopard after pairing the phone with Tiger, would I encounter and problems / difficulties?

Cheers!
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God I hope so, because I did. I upgraded my hard drive and upgraded to leopard this weekend.
 
Pooshka said:
why are you still on tiger???
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Tallest Skil said:
You don't have to, but why aren't you already?
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Wooh! Easy tigers! Haha! I've never really got round to it, I study a hell of a lot and work long hours (almost a chartered management accountant, which isn't easy) and don't get a lot of free time. Although, all my free time has been spent on MR recently!
 
For me, Leopard has added absolutely nothing. There isn't a single feature which it has introduced which I've thought "wow, yeah, I can't be without that anymore". Of course Boot Camp is now a part of it, but if you're not interested in that Tiger is just fine.

Tiger is also much more stable than Leopard.
 
How about a finder that isn't useless and frustrating as well as apps that don't crash every day?
 
neiltc13 said:
For me, Leopard has added absolutely nothing. There isn't a single feature which it has introduced which I've thought "wow, yeah, I can't be without that anymore". Of course Boot Camp is now a part of it, but if you're not interested in that Tiger is just fine.

Tiger is also much more stable than Leopard.
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lol....are you serious?! i'm glad you're content then because now that i've used Spaces.....i could never go back to Tiger. I really enjoy Time Machine too.
 
I've upgraded to Leopard a while ago, and I love it.

I don't have an iPhone yet, but I don't think there is any improved interoperatability between the phone and the new OS. So it's just up to you.
 
Leopard doesn't have a single groundbreaking update that makes it amazing, but all of the smaller updates do tend to add up. I feel much more secure having Time Machine constantly backing up things (I haven't had to use it yet, but I have deleted and restored some "test" files just to make sure it does in fact work... would suck to have a false sense of security then find out the backup doesn't even work)
Spaces is very handy if you do a lot of multi-tasking, Quicklook is one of my favorite features because I always find myself wanting to preview various files. My laptop still has Tiger and I find myself always hitting the spacebar to preview something but finding out I can't. The Finder is improved yes, but it's not a huge fix (but then again, there's no much to fix... the tabbed Finder that people keep wanting would just be dumb on such a drag-and-drop heavy interface like OS X, IMO)

Features aside, the overall look of Leopard just feels vastly improved and much sleeker overall.


neiltc13 said:
For me, Leopard has added absolutely nothing. There isn't a single feature which it has introduced which I've thought "wow, yeah, I can't be without that anymore". Of course Boot Camp is now a part of it, but if you're not interested in that Tiger is just fine.

Tiger is also much more stable than Leopard.
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You must be one of the people that don't do much on their computer aside from email and web browsing. If you used your computer for actual work, there's plenty that Leopard offers that lends an extra hand. And saying Tiger is more stable? Now that's just silly. Leopard has proved much more stable than Tiger did- not that Tiger had many stability issues)
 
Time Machine is worth the upgrade. It finally made backing up easy enough that I convinced my parents to do it. And the ~10 day nag feature is a great reminder that makes them take notice.

And what do you know, 3 months later my mom's HD dies. Took the MacBook to the Apple store and had it replaced under warranty. Came home and restored from the backup. Within 2 hours, everything was up and running and she lost nothing.... which means I didn't have to spend MY weekend rebuilding her machine!

Sure, there are plenty of backup apps out there, but none that are a brain-dead easy for people who look for reasons to NOT backup.

Ichat theater/screen control is worth it too. I have all my relatives set up so if they have a question I can take control of their screen and SHOW them how to fix the problem rather than trying to explain it to them over the phone.
 
Leopard is worth it with or without an iphone. This aint Microsoft Windows, updates and upgrades tend to be good.
 
It is worth upgrading to Leopard just for Leopard.... what features does the iPhone lack when running on Tiger anyways? Just get Leopard... it is stable enough now to use as your main OS.
 
neiltc13 said:
For me, Leopard has added absolutely nothing. There isn't a single feature which it has introduced which I've thought "wow, yeah, I can't be without that anymore". Of course Boot Camp is now a part of it, but if you're not interested in that Tiger is just fine.

Tiger is also much more stable than Leopard.
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Two words: Time Machine.
 
iphonematt said:
It is worth upgrading to Leopard just for Leopard.... what features does the iPhone lack when running on Tiger anyways? Just get Leopard... it is stable enough now to use as your main OS.
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"now" ?

I upgraded to Leopard at around noon the day it was released and have had almost no issues at all this entire time. The only notable problem I've had was my airport connection would randomly drop after the 10.5.1 or 10.5.2 update, but an airport fix was released and it's been great ever since. I never reboot this machine unless it's required by an update.
 
glanv said:
Hello everybody!

Just wondering whether I should upgrade to Leopard for the iPhone 3g? Been wanting to do it for a few months, so may as well anyway. If anyone knows of any advantages to doing this please post.

If I was to stick with Tiger, does anyone know if I was to upgrade to Leopard after pairing the phone with Tiger, would I encounter and problems / difficulties?

Cheers!
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It's worth upgrading to Leopard even if you don't buy an iPhone :apple:
 
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