It should see 4 now. The reason the machine only saw 3 was Tiger was actually a 32 bit OS. Since Leopard is a 64bit OS, it should now see all 4. I believe during installation its makes the determination what to install based on your HW.
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It should see 4 now. The reason the machine only saw 3 was Tiger was actually a 32 bit OS. Since Leopard is a 64bit OS, it should now see all 4. I believe during installation its makes the determination what to install based on your HW.
When I hear things like this it drives me crazy. For 3 years (99-2002) I worked at an Apple dealer and did Mac repairs (friend owned the store, I had a photo studio in the back), I am an experienced Apple Tech. Obviously the experience that Saltcured had is not indicative of something wrong with Leopard, but rather something seriously wrong with his machine and/or HDD.
If I had to speculate as to a single issue it would be his hard drive. My advice would be to back up all the 'created by user' files and erase the drive and reinstall everything. Unless the HDD is about to die this should save it. The only reason I'm suggesting an erasure here is that he has already installed Leopard, probably over an already corrupt system that was heavily fragged. This way, his machine, his HDD, gets a new lease on life.
I just had to do that with my wife's MacBook Pro. She thought her SuperDrive was broken, it wouldn't eject, it wouldn't mount, just did not want to work (This issue existed for the past 3 months). I wound up having to hook up an external burner, reinstalled Tiger (which fixed everything including her SuperDrive. Then installed Leopard, afterward did a PRAM fix (anyone that does Archive and Install should always to a PRAM reset afterward to blow out any garbage that collects). Once her Spotlight indexed the machine ran MUCH better than before.
Since 9AM yesterday morning (when my copy of Leopard arrived) I've helped 26 friends, family, and co-workers (we're a company stocked with Macs) install and/or upgrade to Leopard with NO negatives showing up. I swear Leopard will go down as one of the most "complete" and "bugs-kept-to-an-absolute-minimum" .0 releases.
Simply put, in Saltcured case, Leopard is NOT the problem.
Sorry for such a long post from a newbie. I've lurked for years, but had to address this because its such a diametrically opposed reality to tens of thousands of other Leopard users I've been reading about and in those that I have assisted today, er, I mean yesterday. (long day!)
If I had to speculate as to a single issue it would be his hard drive. My advice would be to back up all the 'created by user' files and erase the drive and reinstall everything. Unless the HDD is about to die this should save it. The only reason I'm suggesting an erasure here is that he has already installed Leopard, probably over an already corrupt system that was heavily fragged. This way, his machine, his HDD, gets a new lease on life.
I just had to do that with my wife's MacBook Pro. She thought her SuperDrive was broken, it wouldn't eject, it wouldn't mount, just did not want to work (This issue existed for the past 3 months). I wound up having to hook up an external burner, reinstalled Tiger (which fixed everything including her SuperDrive. Then installed Leopard, afterward did a PRAM fix (anyone that does Archive and Install should always to a PRAM reset afterward to blow out any garbage that collects). Once her Spotlight indexed the machine ran MUCH better than before.
Since 9AM yesterday morning (when my copy of Leopard arrived) I've helped 26 friends, family, and co-workers (we're a company stocked with Macs) install and/or upgrade to Leopard with NO negatives showing up. I swear Leopard will go down as one of the most "complete" and "bugs-kept-to-an-absolute-minimum" .0 releases.
Simply put, in Saltcured case, Leopard is NOT the problem.
Sorry for such a long post from a newbie. I've lurked for years, but had to address this because its such a diametrically opposed reality to tens of thousands of other Leopard users I've been reading about and in those that I have assisted today, er, I mean yesterday. (long day!)
Bet it is Spotlight updating. On four Macs I updated only one did this, a Dual 2 GIG G5, it took an hour to totally remake Spotlight database. Once done it is faster than Tiger.
I can't believe even my ancient G4 iBook (bottom of range at the time) is running Leopard and it seems faster than it was with Tiger!
I have one question to any tech heads ... can Time Machine be 'told' to only deal with one internal drive? I have Dual G5 with two internal 350 MB drives and TM is so far trying to archive both in one go and I simply don't have a large enough drive (I'd need a TB) but if i could tell it to ignore the second drive I'd be all set. TIA.
A friend and I played with Leopard on an iMac in the Apple Store for about an hour, even though we were taking our own copies home. We found two or three "glitches" (minor interface issues), such as a pane with the top cut off. We showed an Apple salesguy who we had been chatting with. He smiled and said "Shhh! Don't let anyone hear you!"
Why does the photo from Ginza look like a mob instead of an organized line?
Why does the photo from Ginza look like a mob instead of an organized line?
which G4 do you have? ive got the 1.42, and was contemplating on whether it would be worth it or not...
Looking at those lines makes me glad I had Leopard shipped to the house.
Yeah same here, got it shipped right to my door steps!
How do you get the HDDs to display how much they have/have left under like that?
Been playing on Leo since I got it last night - It told me it would take 5.08GBs to install on both machines...Glad I have my external on the way - can't wait to start playing with TM
Been playing on Leo since I got it last night - It told me it would take 5.08GBs to install on both machines...Glad I have my external on the way - can't wait to start playing with TM
Reporting in from St. Louis! I'll just copy/paste my story from the StL thread:
I went to the West County store straight after work, so since I came from work I unfortunately did not have my camera with me.
After a long wait in the Starbucks line for some requisite "wake-up" juice I made my way towards the Apple store to meet up with my buddy at around 5:15. I am terrible at guesses but I would say we might have been around the 50's-70's in line.
I didn't plan on buying Leopard, I just love these events. I mainly wanted to show up and mix it up with others waiting, and play around with Leopard. After nabbing a free t-shirt in the door I had 4 different employees approach me and ask me how many copies I wanted. I told them that I wanted to play mainly.
After playing around for 15-20 minutes I decided just to buy it right there. We probably left the store around 6:45 and there was still a line of about 30-40 people waiting to get in I would estimate.
Haven't had the chance to install yet, but I love these Apple events! I went to the Tiger release at the West County store, and the opening event at the Galleria. I wish we had another opening around here sometime soon...I love this stuff.
I went to the West County store straight after work, so since I came from work I unfortunately did not have my camera with me.
After a long wait in the Starbucks line for some requisite "wake-up" juice I made my way towards the Apple store to meet up with my buddy at around 5:15. I am terrible at guesses but I would say we might have been around the 50's-70's in line.
I didn't plan on buying Leopard, I just love these events. I mainly wanted to show up and mix it up with others waiting, and play around with Leopard. After nabbing a free t-shirt in the door I had 4 different employees approach me and ask me how many copies I wanted. I told them that I wanted to play mainly.
After playing around for 15-20 minutes I decided just to buy it right there. We probably left the store around 6:45 and there was still a line of about 30-40 people waiting to get in I would estimate.
Haven't had the chance to install yet, but I love these Apple events! I went to the Tiger release at the West County store, and the opening event at the Galleria. I wish we had another opening around here sometime soon...I love this stuff.
In Finder, click "View" on the menu bar, then click "View Options" from the drop down menu. Tick the box "Show item info" and you are all set
The pic from Tokyo makes me laugh. I recently got back from Tokyo and nearly ever pic I took of the city street looked the exact same (OSX event or not). There are just sooooo many people there...
There was certainly no shortage of people when I visited Ginza. But nothing like the crowds on the loop line train to get there!
Not sure why it's obviously my machine and not Leopard, the Apple support forums indicate many keychain issues for example. I'm not saying my computer isn't the problem though. It is my second (24inch 2.16 iMac) the first was replaced for free because Apple couldn't diagnose it's multiple crashes/panics. So if my second machine is having hardware issues too then, well, that sucks!
I'll wait a couple of days and see how things go before I do a clean install, I would like to avoid that ordeal if I could.
Only a 1.33 and 512 RAM, really bottom end only used for Mail and Safari till now and I never thought it would take Leopard but it loves it
I have an old G4 733 which is below min spec ... I wonder??
Well first real day getting to use Leopard Extensively. Here are the results. Probably caused by Azureus.
That's a shame you had that happen. So far I have done 5 upgrades on machines from old iBook to brand new MacBook Pro with G5s and G4s in between. Not a single glitch. Smoothest update ever (and fast) and many of these machines started with 10.0 and have simply been updated through all X's iterations not clean installs. Only snag I hit was Parallels needed updating to 3.0 on one MacBook.
My Tokyo Ginza store pics
My wife is an Apple employee for the Japan Marketing team, She got me into the store before it opened at 6pm. Here are my pics.
http://flickr.com/photos/modernangel/sets/72157602722095141/
My wife is an Apple employee for the Japan Marketing team, She got me into the store before it opened at 6pm. Here are my pics.
http://flickr.com/photos/modernangel/sets/72157602722095141/
My wife is an Apple employee for the Japan Marketing team, She got me into the store before it opened at 6pm. Here are my pics.
http://flickr.com/photos/modernangel/sets/72157602722095141/
素敵よ！「ギンザ」へ行きたいんです。本当に楽しいそうですね.
この写真はすてき、Modernangel。よくできました
- Open Disk Utility, perform: Repair Permissions, verify disk, if Verify disk fails, then boot up using OS disk and Repair Disk.
- Keychain, open keychain, see if it's locked. If locked, unlock it.
- I would repair permissions after (and before) each system update and installs that require your password.
4GB capability iMac Late 2006?
I have tried Leopard with my iMac 24" (Late 2006) which has 2 modules of 2GB making a total of 4GB. Using Leopard it shows 4GB in systemprofile and 4GB in Activity which I found odd, as the same machine shows 4GB in systemprofile but 3GB in Activity using Tiger...
I did find Leopard a tad slow (it seemed it was already finished indexing), whereas using Tiger it is quite fast.
It is equipped with the default 250GB HDD (haven't changed that yet), the memory modules are two OCZ branded modules type OCZ2MV6672G.
There are more reports of this phenomenon mentioned in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4411888&posted=1#post4411888
Are there more people who have seen this happen?
I have tried Leopard with my iMac 24" (Late 2006) which has 2 modules of 2GB making a total of 4GB. Using Leopard it shows 4GB in systemprofile and 4GB in Activity which I found odd, as the same machine shows 4GB in systemprofile but 3GB in Activity using Tiger...
I did find Leopard a tad slow (it seemed it was already finished indexing), whereas using Tiger it is quite fast.
It is equipped with the default 250GB HDD (haven't changed that yet), the memory modules are two OCZ branded modules type OCZ2MV6672G.
There are more reports of this phenomenon mentioned in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4411888&posted=1#post4411888
Are there more people who have seen this happen?