Leopard is the New Vista

[Sonny]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2223921,00.asp

all I have to say is

[srwatters]

Consider the source...

Leopard has NEVER crashed on me since I installed it.

I run it on a G5 iMac, PowerBook Pro, and Mac Pro.

[jeffkohn]

You may be a lucky one Scott. There certainly seem to be a lot of comlaints about Leopard, much more so than previous releases. Not to mention all the compatibility issues. Just one example, Capture NX 1.3 that it shouldn't be used on Leopard because images get corrupted. It seems especially ironic given Apple's current advertising campaign.

[DeLeon]

This why I stick with DOS...sure editing photos is a bit harder, but I still get to use all of these floppy disks!

[srwatters]

The squeaky wheel is the one that is ALWAYS heard. I think the biggest issue is the upgrade path you take. I did fresh installs because I wanted to clean out any extraneous setting and old applications I don't use any more.

My 9 year old has the G5 iMac and plays all sorts of games on DVD and online. It's never crashed on her. Of course YMMV.

[kenw]

actually, I've never had any issues with Vista......

so there....

[CobyPhoto]

Originally Posted by srwatters

The squeaky wheel is the one that is ALWAYS heard. I think the biggest issue is the upgrade path you take. I did fresh installs because I wanted to clean out any extraneous setting and old applications I don't use any more.

My 9 year old has the G5 iMac and plays all sorts of games on DVD and online. It's never crashed on her. Of course YMMV.

I am with Scott on this one. I never just install an upgrade OVER the existing system. Clean installs always work the best.

But then, the average user usually isn't as tech savy...so those are the ones that will squeal! (No matter the OS!)

CJ

[AllenAyres]

vista (especially IE on vista) has been buggy for me and it was a fresh install from dell - everything uses too much memory and eventually it slows to a crawl (we purchased it with 2gb of ram). With IE7 on XP if you minimized it to the tray it would release most of the memory it used - not so with vista.

I only know 2 people who have installed leopard - both have had and still have issues.

[Collins]

Sounds like a shock value title to me.

I've heard nothing but positive reviews besides this one.

[Detonate]

Originally Posted by srwatters

The squeaky wheel is the one that is ALWAYS heard.

As long as you will concede the same holds true for EVERYONE.

[darktiger]

Originally Posted by srwatters

Consider the source...

Leopard has NEVER crashed on me since I installed it.

I run it on a G5 iMac, PowerBook Pro, and Mac Pro.

I actually can say the same thing with vista too. I have 4 computers running Vista at home and both of my work computers run Vista....Not one crash yet....

[cnoise]

Leopard has been fantastic for me. No problems(yet of course).

[Sonny]

I agree with my fellow tech-nerds. A clean install is your best choice. Although it might take some time in the beginning to back up data, install the OS, and apply all the update you'll save yourself the headache later of troubleshooting problems due to upgrading.

I have one desktop and one laptop running Vista Ultimate. I also have not had any problems with the OS. Not one blue screen, not one driver conflict, or program incompatibility. Now driver support is another story, but not a bad one...at least me it wasn't. When installed Vista on my desktop my 4 year old Matrox PCI video card and my 3 year old SoundBlaster sound card did not have vista drivers available. Like I said no big deal. In fact it gave me an excuse to buy some newer hardware I wanted. So I bought a dual head PCI VGA video card (along with my PCI-E vid card now I'm rockin 4 monitors) and Creative Sound Blaster soundcard. Both card were very inexpensive!

[Spec A!]

No issues yet, and I just upgraded over top. However I'm being impatient as I want to get a good 1TB drive to backup to first before I do a clean install anyways.

I now work on an MS only environment, and I know that even with issues I'd rather be on a Mac with OS X than this. But that's totally personal experience and opinion- no need to get into a versus argument.

I'm not surprised there are issues- it's a major enough change to the OS, and Apple's market saturation is a LOT more than it was when Tiger came out. I for one am not surprised there are more people with problems, simply because there are more people using it now, and the percentage of those people that are novice, not tech saavy/literate is much large than it ever used to be as well.

[Sonny]

Originally Posted by Spec A!

No issues yet, and I just upgraded over top. However I'm being impatient as I want to get a good 1TB drive to backup to first before I do a clean install anyways.

I now work on an MS only environment, and I know that even with issues I'd rather be on a Mac with OS X than this. But that's totally personal experience and opinion- no need to get into a versus argument.

I'm not surprised there are issues- it's a major enough change to the OS, and Apple's market saturation is a LOT more than it was when Tiger came out. I for one am not surprised there are more people with problems, simply because there are more people using it now, and the percentage of those people that are novice tech saavy/literate is much large than it ever used to be as well.

MACS SUXORZ!

just kidding. sup anthony? where you been lately?