bronxbomber92 Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Would anyone suggest installing leopard over Tiger, or would it be better to get rid of Windows and install Tiger? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 i think it is fine. the only thing is that safari has to be the the single most unstable application in the system. It good enough for me to use as a main operation system. But remember to backup with your computer (with time machine or something else). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-182684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxbomber92 Posted September 6, 2006 Author Share Posted September 6, 2006 Anyone have any other suggestions or comments? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-182983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masna Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Anyone have any other suggestions or comments? Stick with Tiger. Leopard is pretty unstable as far as the preview goes. Tiger is a very solid OS, with very flew flaws. Leopard is crawling with chances to quit "unexpectedly." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-183793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxbomber92 Posted September 7, 2006 Author Share Posted September 7, 2006 I get thise every once in awhile though... I think I may install it as a secondary OS and if I don't like it I will reinstall windows... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-183879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOIKAI Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I don't know why but there's a complete silence from people who have been running Leopard and not telling their opinion about it. Prove me wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-185262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
s3ct0r3 Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 yeah, because they all signed an NDA ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-185635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simania_NL Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Im going to kill the silence I'm running Leopard on my MacBook Pro and until now I don't really feel much difference between Leopard and Tiger. Spaces is a superb feature, but after all it's not worth paying another 150 euros.... Stabillity is a small issue, since I've encountered only minor crashes. Speed seems to be more of a problem, I think it's about 25% slower with Leopard. Rgds Simania Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-188056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdriven Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Heck, Leopard on my G4 PowerBook has run flawlessly except for the bluetooth bezel..... I have had no problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-188133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazkid Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Leopard on 12" PB: No issues besides cannot play itunes purchased videos and ac3 audio. I thought about restoring Tiger, but realized I cannot live without spaces. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-194636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOIKAI Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 no problem here with Leopard on a ppc Mac Min 1.42, only minor crashes.Faster than Tiger for me and better control of ram. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-195032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabaczka Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 AH!.. I have Leopard running on an external harddrive of mine and everything works perfect so far. I can't decide if I should make it my main OS on my mbp... I still think something could go wrong when I need it.. hmmm what to do.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-195133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnyk Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 It works great, but dont use it if you plan on using iwork. The refresh rate when scrolling is all messed up. See Here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-195830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTA Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Because of certain situations beyond my control, I don't have access to Tiger with my new MBP, and couldn't find a torrent with unpatched Tiger (Intel), so I took the next best route and snagged a copy of Leopard, installed it without problems. Whats to say about it..? It..runs. Spaces is nice, so are the new features in Ichat and Safari. But stability is a -major- issue. Applications crash, and at least for me, when they crash, they crash hard. I had to go force quit them, repeatedly. It hangs a lot, and heats my MBP to nearly unbearable tempetures (more so than even XP). Honestly, my advice to those asking is, stick with Tiger until at least a beta-release, or at the very least put it on a another partition/HD. It's not something you want to be using as your primary OS. I've deleted my Leopard partition and am using XP on my shiny MBP, if that tells you anything about the quality of Leopard Dev Preview. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-196284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Stabillity is a small issue, since I've encountered only minor crashes. Speed seems to be more of a problem, I think it's about 25% slower with Leopard.Rgds Simania 25% slower? It's too much for a daily use... thanks for pointing this out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-196564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 CMills, did you install the update for the dev preview? It fixes alot of things. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-196641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTA Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 Yea, I installed the update and tweaked it and what not, trying to make it bearable as a primary OS ('cause really...who wants to use XP?), but in the end stability was just to bad for primary use. Then again, i'm a power-user. Five or six applications open at all times, albeit light ones, so that might have something to do with it. The applications crashing didn't actually bother me so much, it was the fact that when they crashed I couldn't simply click 'ok', I had to go kill the application repeatedly via forcequit before I could move on to anything else. I'm not being picky or anything, I fully understand this is a dev-release, and the OS isn't in the beta-phase yet. And then, maybe I just got extremely unlucky with my install. The experience people have seems quite varied. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26846-recommend-leopard/#findComment-196654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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