I don't know if anyone has any experience with this. If any of you has I'd like to know if its okay to upgrade an existing setup of Jaguar to Panther and keep all the apps and stuff in harmony?
What it is, my father has a 17" pb running Jaguar mainly for editing movies with iMovie and iDvd. I, on the other hand, have a newer 15" pb running Panther. Both OS's on the machines were set up using the disks that come with them.
As the 17" pb my father uses was originally mine, and since I've been using Panther on my 15" for a time now, I think its probably better to have expose and all the other slicker features.
So do I upgrade his machine using my bundled disk? Or will Panther reduce the old installed apps, like iDVD, useless.
And furthermore, what happens later when the apps themselves (classic, iDVD etc) need a restore. Will the disk for Jaguar that has the extra sofware on it work in the newly upgraded Panther OS. Because these disks (only the extras, disk 2) seem to work only on the precise machine they were bundled with. Other wise I could just upgrade his with my disk, then throw in the extras into the newly updated architecture.
Am I right in my thinking that his old apps (iDVD etc) will still work fine under the newly upgraded OS? If I am right, and I think I am, (I tried opening the older versions over an airport network and they opened up in Panther just fine) then that would just leave the tricky issue of the extras cd for future restoration.
I don't want to go ahead and frag the hell out of all his home movies, so any help would be mightily appreciated.
oyoudo
What it is, my father has a 17" pb running Jaguar mainly for editing movies with iMovie and iDvd. I, on the other hand, have a newer 15" pb running Panther. Both OS's on the machines were set up using the disks that come with them.
As the 17" pb my father uses was originally mine, and since I've been using Panther on my 15" for a time now, I think its probably better to have expose and all the other slicker features.
So do I upgrade his machine using my bundled disk? Or will Panther reduce the old installed apps, like iDVD, useless.
And furthermore, what happens later when the apps themselves (classic, iDVD etc) need a restore. Will the disk for Jaguar that has the extra sofware on it work in the newly upgraded Panther OS. Because these disks (only the extras, disk 2) seem to work only on the precise machine they were bundled with. Other wise I could just upgrade his with my disk, then throw in the extras into the newly updated architecture.
Am I right in my thinking that his old apps (iDVD etc) will still work fine under the newly upgraded OS? If I am right, and I think I am, (I tried opening the older versions over an airport network and they opened up in Panther just fine) then that would just leave the tricky issue of the extras cd for future restoration.
I don't want to go ahead and frag the hell out of all his home movies, so any help would be mightily appreciated.
oyoudo
