Upgrade to Leopard

[sk3pt1c]

yeah, i'm of course talking about the properly released version of leopard

so with an upgrade install everything would be left as it was before, right?

any disadvantages to an upgrade install as opposed to a clean (format hd and install from scratch) one?

 

[gauchogolfer]

yeah, i'm of course talking about the properly released version of leopard

so with an upgrade install everything would be left as it was before, right?

any disadvantages to an upgrade install as opposed to a clean (format hd and install from scratch) one?

It depends how much time you want to spend re-installing all of your applications, I guess

 

[sk3pt1c]

It depends how much time you want to spend re-installing all of your applications, I guess

sorry, didn't get that
i'd need to re-install all my applications with a clean install?
or with an upgrade install?

would an upgrade install have any disadvantages compared to a clean one?
performance, memory?

 

[gauchogolfer]

sorry, didn't get that
i'd need to re-install all my applications with a clean install?
or with an upgrade install?

would an upgrade install have any disadvantages compared to a clean one?
performance, memory?

An upgrade install would preserve all of your installed applications and data. A clean install involves a hard drive format, and thus you are starting from scratch.

I don't think there's a big performance benefit from a clean install, but some people like to remove the 'fluff' that OS X can install (language files, drivers, etc.).

 

[sk3pt1c]

cool, that's what i suspected, thanks dude
looks like an upgrade for me then
let me ask something else though
leopard would probably have been built
with intel in mind
so, would it perform worse on a g4?
would it demand more of it than tiger does now?
i do have 2gb ram but i'd rather use it for video editing
and stuff like that rather than just to run the os

 

[gauchogolfer]

I also have a g4 in my powerbook. As to performance, many people claim that tiger runs better on their machines than panther did. Apple seems to streamline things with more experience on each platform. As to leopard, given the intel/ppc switch, we may see less of that, but no one really knows. I'd just wait till it comes out, see what others' experience is on older machines, and make a decision then.

Cheers

 

[iMeowbot]

leopard would probably have been built with intel in mind
so, would it perform worse on a g4?

All the previous OS X releases were built with Intel in mind too, the general public just didn't see that.

Apple still make and sell PowerPC systems, and will continue to do so at least into October. It's far too early for them to stop paying attention to performance on that architecture.

would it demand more of it than tiger does now?

The new features, if you use them, will probably add more. Spotlight and Dashboard certainly added some overhead, and I'm sure there will be more of that in Leopard.

i do have 2gb ram but i'd rather use it for video editing
and stuff like that rather than just to run the os

We'll all know pretty quickly if RAM becomes an issue. Meh, just wait a couple weeks before upgrading and see if there are any disaster stories.

 

[sk3pt1c]

cool,thanks guys
i think i will stick with tiger for another year
and then just get an intel mac with leopard
hopefully by then any problems will have been solved
with both machine and operating system.

 

[this is funah]

I have an iMac G5 that i really want to upgrade to leopard (which i now have, but have NOT installed). Is it possible to create a partition on my 160GB hard drive to use for my Leopard testing? and just hold option down to select which system i want to use (in boot camp fashion).