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Time to Upgrade to Leopard?

Submitted by themike on January 25, 2008 - 9:02am. Intel Macs

Hi all, I am seriously considering upgrading my MBP to Leopard for a couple reasons but I am not sure about it yet. Who has made the upgrade? Was it worth it?

I am mostly excited about Boot Camp because a lot of the work I do requires being able to boot into Windows which is why Parallels is nice, but the Boot Camp assistant 1.4 no longer works.

I guess what I am asking is if the upgrade is worth it.

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Worth it IMHO

Submitted by tmtomh on January 25, 2008 - 1:35pm.

I upgraded my Aluminum iMac to Leopard and have had no problems - it's been great.

To be safe, I strongly recommend upgrading via Archive and Install, which creates a fresh System but migrates your User folder and apps over to the new system automatically.

Given what we're hearing on the Mac Web these days, I'd also recommend waiting a week or so - by then the gigantic 10.5.2 update should be out, and it reportedly contains over 100 bug fixes.

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Matt

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Maybe I'll Wait

Submitted by themike on January 25, 2008 - 5:46pm.

Thanks Matt, I think maybe I will wait a week or so. I am pretty eager to upgrade though... I am torn.

I think I am actually just going to format my disk and start fresh. The install of X.4.11 has been on here since I got this computer last January.

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Submitted by TheUltimateMacUser on February 12, 2008 - 2:32pm.

Do it. seriously. Leopard is great. I've been running it on my 17" G4 PowerBook since it came out, and i've had no issues.

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10.5.2 is now out so you migh

Submitted by Simon27 on February 12, 2008 - 7:13pm.

10.5.2 is now out so you might consider going for Leopard. Even if you buy 10.5.1 you can still upgrade for free. I've had no problems with Leopard that I installed on a MacBook but I don't use that all the time as my main machine (which I'm keeping on Tiger for just now).

Unless to have any oddball software that won't work well then I don't see any point in waiting. It's definitely worth it.

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I did!

Submitted by Red_Draconi on February 21, 2008 - 2:10am.

I upgraded to Leopard as soon as I got my copy in the mail. I've had no real issues (except that when connecting to wireless g/n routers, my MPB wants to give itself an IP..)

Time machine works great and I've had no software issues. So go for it!

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Installing the 10.5.2 update

Submitted by Jon on February 21, 2008 - 2:12pm.

Installing the 10.5.2 update will also give you a TM menubar icon to do 'right now" backups and more like use other TM volumes.

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