Leopard sucks

[beatdetective]

Hi Everyone,

I am a new member and read with interest the previous posts on this topic on Leopard.

Having been an OSX 10.4 user I upgraded to Leopard without any problems. That was 10.5.1. Then the update for 10.5.2 arrived via the Software Update, which I installed. Also no problem, but when 10.5.3 arrived in the Software Update, I installed it just as before, however this time it knocked my system, a Dual 1.8GHz (separate processors model) for "6"! After the update it would start up and the power supply just switched of while the gray Apple logo and spinning cog where on screen. To cut a long story short having removed and re-installed hardware, tried to re-install the software, but it still switched off while booting from the OSX CD, I discovered that the firmware had somehow become corrupted. I discovered this as I had also lost one of my PCI slots - slot 4. Pressing the SMU button and clearing PRAM helped, but did not restore the PCI slot detection and the card in it. I found the only solution was to remove the lithium battery and disconnected the power cord for about 2 hours. After refitting the battery and powering up, the PCI slot 4 was now OK and I manually downloaded 10.5.3 and installed it from the hard drive and it went in this time without a problem. So it would seem that it might be a better option for all those who suffer upgrade problems to do it this way instead of using the Software Upgrade option, which is fine for minor software upgrades which do not involve the OS.

Hope this helps
Philip

 

[Digital Skunk]

I'm sick of apple's bs os, I'm writing this post on my mb pro with 10.5.3 installed and I just cannot shut down the machine since I installed 10.5.3 unless I do a hard shutdown or kill a bunch of processes from terminal first. The only machine I've not had any problems with is an older mbpro with ubnutu installed as the main os. Neither apple or microsoft are capable of making a decent operating system and they spend most of their money and energy trying to protect a pile of crab with patents, legal agreements and other bs. Let's us imagine a world without microsoft or apple: Very peaceful

Yeah, you're basically a troll. Can we ban him right now and save ourselves the trouble of proving his unsubstantiated statements wrong, then having to deal with him typing IN ALL CAPS and flaming us as his/her defense.

By the way breckentroll. Anyone can say that they have this and that problem yadda yadda yadda, got some proof to back that up? Like a screen shot or an actual problem that you are trying to seek aid for?

And many here have used Ubuntu (it is a proper noun you know) and it's a great OS indeed, but since I can't run many of the industry required apps on it, Mac OS X is it. Once the Ubuntu community devos get off their @$$es to give me a professional level video editing application, I will jump ship okay.