Leopard upgrade advice

[judino28]

Lifetime Mac user here with a question that I already think I know the answer to, but just want some support for my peace of mind.

Due to be a full time college student and being extremely busy, I have never gotten the chance to upgrade my Mac Pro to Leopard. Now that it's summer, I'm thinking of doing so. However, when Leopard first came out, I know that there were some minor stability issues. I am completely content with Tiger and just want to make sure that the upgrade is worth it. I would, of course, do a fresh install. My set up is a Mac Pro Dual Core Dual Processor 2.66ghz, 4gb RAM, 2 Internal Hard Drives (250gb and 500gb), and 512mb Radeon x1900.

I also have a Mac Book Pro Core Duo 2.0ghz with 1gb RAM but I doubt I'd upgrade that right now as I rarely use it.

So anyway, if you guys can think of any reason I shouldn't upgrade or anything else at all, please let me know. Thanks!

 

[misterredman]

You can always install Leopard on another partition and remove tiger only when you are satisfied with leopard. I upgraded a Macbook CD to leopard and I really like it. No issues so far.

 

[clevin]

your hardware is fine, so only question you need to ask yourself is if you think what leopard had over Tiger warrants the expense.

 

[mysterytramp]

I'm in a similar boat. I have a 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo Mac mini with 1 G 667 MHz ram. I'm fairly happy with Tiger but I'm intrigued primarily with Time Machine. I also think I could put Bento to work and it needs Leopard.

Thoughts?

mt

 

[theyellowdart]

I upgraded to leopard shortly after it was released.

I had stability issues ONLY after the intial install while spotlight indexed my entire drive. Lots of unresponsive apps, crashes, and slow responses.

Once my drive was indexed, I really haven't experienced any stabiity issues that I didn't have in Tiger (be in a random lockup here, or an app crash there).

SO... don't know much of a reason not to update. It's nice : >