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Just bought my MacBook this last Thursday and now that I am seeing 10.4.9 being seeded. It worries me.


I plan on buying 10.5 when I can but- is my stock 2Ghz c2d macbook going to run Leopard well?


It is my first mac and I've never experienced the whole Operating system upgrading except for my windows machines uprading Win 98 -> XP -> Vista

and I was just wondering if I am going to suffer performance wise?
 
andrewxps said:
Just bought my MacBook this last Thursday and now that I am seeing 10.4.9 being seeded. It worries me.


I plan on buying 10.5 when I can but- is my stock 2Ghz c2d macbook going to run Leopard well?


It is my first mac and I've never experienced the whole Operating system upgrading except for my windows machines uprading Win 98 -> XP -> Vista

and I was just wondering if I am going to suffer performance wise?
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no i wouldnt say you would have any problems and you wont probably suffer performance wise.
But i am worried about my core duo 2.0 ghz mb and getting it to run leopard
dont worry its my first mac too
 
not only won't you see issues with your C2D Macbook, but it may be the very machine Leopard will be released on. Seeing as they were updated only a few weeks ago I can't see (unless Leopard is delayed till the summer) there being any laptop upgrades (besides maybe a new 12incher) before Leopard comes out. Leopard will run fine even on most iBooks and Powerbook G4's I think too. Maybe even older.
 
OMG, Chill.

Yes, your brand spanking new laptops will run Leopard just fine. Do you really think Apple would be selling computers that were going to be obsolete within 6-8 months?

I mean hell there are g3 iMacs running tiger out there still (although I'm not sure their still supported, but they can run tiger). You will be just fine.
 
Historically Mac OS X performance has increased through every major release, especially 10.2 > 10.3. This coupled with the fact that Apple and other developers will have had more time to optimise OS X for Intel (as opposed to the years spent optimising it for PPC) would suggest to me you've nothing to worry about at all.

AppleMatt
 
Lol yes chill. First of all, Microsoft is not Apple and Apple makes the OS and the computer where as Microsoft only cares about the OS (there's already some hardware concerns about running Vista Ultimate). Therefore Apple will make sure their computers will run their OS no matter how old they are.
 
As we've already established, Leopard will run fine on your new MacBook. But why does seeing 10.4.9 being seeded worry you?
 
andrewxps said:
because I just got my macbook and that will be the last revision of Tiger before the big leap into leopard.
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There is no guarentee that that is so. With Leopard almost certainly not going to be here before April it is quite possible that we will see Tiger 10.4.10 before Leopard 10.5.0 is available.

I fully expect my two-year-old G4 Mac Mini to run Leopard.
 
andrewxps said:
Just bought my MacBook this last Thursday and now that I am seeing 10.4.9 being seeded. It worries me.


I plan on buying 10.5 when I can but- is my stock 2Ghz c2d macbook going to run Leopard well?


It is my first mac and I've never experienced the whole Operating system upgrading except for my windows machines uprading Win 98 -> XP -> Vista

and I was just wondering if I am going to suffer performance wise?
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Leopard is going to FLY on your machine, don't worry 🙂.
 
andrewxps said:
Just bought my MacBook this last Thursday and now that I am seeing 10.4.9 being seeded. It worries me.


I plan on buying 10.5 when I can but- is my stock 2Ghz c2d macbook going to run Leopard well?


It is my first mac and I've never experienced the whole Operating system upgrading except for my windows machines uprading Win 98 -> XP -> Vista

and I was just wondering if I am going to suffer performance wise?
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Very interesting... upgrading your windows machine to Vista then purchasing your first mac. Hmmm...
 
AppleMatt said:
Historically Mac OS X performance has increased through every major release, especially 10.2 > 10.3. This coupled with the fact that Apple and other developers will have had more time to optimise OS X for Intel (as opposed to the years spent optimising it for PPC) would suggest to me you've nothing to worry about at all.

AppleMatt
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I'm curious, how do they make the operating system faster?
 
SBik2 said:
no i wouldnt say you would have any problems and you wont probably suffer performance wise.
But i am worried about my core duo 2.0 ghz mb and getting it to run leopard
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Worried? If I were you, I would be looking forward to Leopard.
 
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