Comments on: Why I have not installed Leopard (Though I own it)

By: Jesus

Jesus — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:24:42 +0000

Can I have your copy of Leopard then?

By: Waiting for Leopard to change its spots/dots - The Apple Blog

Waiting for Leopard to change its spots/dots - The Apple Blog — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:54:33 +0000

[...] I rely heavily on my MacBook Pro Core2 Duo (4GB/160GB) for both work and personal computing. My work VM (Vista+Office 2007) has to be 100% functional and the various bits of software and hardware that support my personal mobility and productivity all need to function with a minimum of interruption. During the week leading up until the official release, I kept reading vendor reports that they had to wait to test their wares on the final release version and then kept seeing reports during the first week after from some of my favourite tools that they were just adding compatibility. Not to mention Brandon’s post. [...]

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:22:50 +0000

@TDI
Core Animation is just one major back-end update to Leopard, which is pretty amazing. It lets developers make stunning apps, and is behind a lot of things already in Leopard, like the new Preview and Finder QuickView. The demonstration is amazing.

There are a lot of other improvements under the hood, especially for developers. The new developer tools are cool and I’m just now starting to play with them:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/developer/

I finally got Leopard installed — I was able to get a full backup using SuperDuper so I was less heistant about blowing up my drive (since I could just do a restore). I did an Archive and Install and it worked well.

By: John Davis

John Davis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:43:01 +0000

The first time I tried to install 10.5, I got an error message, so I ran Diskwarrior and Applejack. Thereafter the install ran perfectly smoothly. I didn’t have APE installed, but it looked like it wouldn’t have installed even on my brand new iMac, without the clean up.

John Davis

By: bv

bv — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:50:52 +0000

leopard kicks so much ass. i can’t imagine not running after having it since it came out.
lovin it!
peace.
bv.

By: tdi

tdi — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:25:13 +0000

@Brandon:
yes you are right, but time machine wasin server 2003 too. I totally agree that OSX i just too good to change it more, but the fuss was too big for such small visible changes. Do you guys have some link of changes in internals? Im not talking about unix userland updates, but some core of OSX.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:41:22 +0000

Randy,

That was my first thought too. Maybe I overlooked it, but I tried looking for an uninstall option in the LCC 2.3.1 installer but couldn’t find it. Usually it’s under the “Installation Options” section, but not with this installer.

By: Randy Stewart

Randy Stewart — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:57:40 +0000

It seems that the Installer for LCC is also an uninstaller, but I don’t have my copy handy. Have you tried running the installer again?

Cheers,
Randy

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:02:57 +0000

You’re right about the lack of an uninstaller being included with LCC 2.3.1. Fortunately, I still had the DMG from LCC 2.2.2 on my iMac and it does include an uninstaller. If you’d like me to send you a copy, drop me an email.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:37:28 +0000

I've got a buddy at work that had the upgrade nuke his MBP. Needless to say, I'm extremely hesitant to do it with mine.