hey everyone.. just wondering your thoughts is it really worth the upgrade from tiger to leopard... personally i don't see that many differences...THANKS!
This is something far far beyond that ...the next big thing??....you bet.
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Past experience has shown me that "upgrading" any OS can lead to bloat and infinite issues. That means that if I do go up to Leopard, I am formatting my drive and installling from scratch and restoring all my settings manually from personal backups... Needless to say, I'll be waiting till the first few patches come out before even attempting this on my computers.
Just my 2cents.
Also, Leopard looks nifty, but I can live without the enhancements.
Obviously it's tough to say since none of us have used Leopard yet (I'm not sure if we have anyone with a beta on the site, actually?). "Worth it" is a personal call - there's absolutely nothing wrong with Tiger, and I agree with you that most of the enhancements are minor enough, or things you won't use often enough, that it might not be worth the effort.
That said, Leopard does bring with it 300 new and improved features, so it is a big release. I'd say, for the $130 it costs, you might as well upgrade. You'll have to eventually. I think I'll be waiting until the dust has settled and Leopard has established itself, but I'll take the plunge.
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Past experience has shown me that "upgrading" any OS can lead to bloat and infinite issues. That means that if I do go up to Leopard, I am formatting my drive and installling from scratch and restoring all my settings manually from personal backups...
I was just about to post a question about just this. I know this to be true from my Windows days, but wondering what everyone's experience is upgrading on a Mac. Is it better to reinstall than upgrade?
thanks for all your comments, they are greatly appreciated.. this is my first mac and i love it to pieces... i have no current issues with tiger.. but from what i can see the leopard does have a lot of neat features that tiger doesnt... just it is enough to backup all my data and reformat.... which like another user said.. i would rather go that route instead of just upgarding... its definatly the sharper choice.. altho i dont have any experience stritctly upgrading a mac.. so maybe its cleaner than a pc, because i know that can be a nightmare!! and of course fork out the 130 bucks
Memory randomization (ASLR) coming to Mac OS X Leopard
Apple has announced plans to add code-scrambling diversity to Mac OS X Leopard, a move aimed at making the operating system more resilient to virus and worm attacks.
The security technology, known as ASLR (address space layout randomization), randomly arranges the positions of key data areas to prevent malware authors from predicting target addresses. It is used in tandem with additional security features to reduce the effectiveness of exploit attempts.
... just it is enough to backup all my data and reformat.... which like another user said.. i would rather go that route instead of just upgarding... its definatly the sharper choice.. altho i dont have any experience stritctly upgrading a mac.. so maybe its cleaner than a pc, because i know that can be a nightmare!! and of course fork out the 130 bucks
I don't know........I went from 10.2.8 to 10.4.3 to 10.4.8 to 10.4.10 without reformatting and starting from scratch.
Seems like a lot of extra work to wipe everything clean - download these hundred applications I accumulated over the years and then set each one up again the way I like it.
One question - is there a list anywhere of which applications are Leopard compatible or is this not a concern?
Alchemy TV/DVR broke when I went from 10.4.8 to 10.4.10, but fortunately they had an up-issue on their website. That fixed the problem.
I'm sticking with Tiger; Leopard doesn't do OS9 and there's one graphing app (Deltagraph) and a couple of games (Civ II and Master of Orion II) that I use which are classic based. If Numbers did error bars I'd ditch Deltagraph and keep a bootable Tiger external drive for my old time gaming!
Regards
from Ottawa
Harvey
One question - is there a list anywhere of which applications are Leopard compatible or is this not a concern?
Alchemy TV/DVR broke when I went from 10.4.8 to 10.4.10, but fortunately they had an up-issue on their website. That fixed the problem.
I was wondering the same thing, will half of my current programs be useless, like what Vista did?
- oh indeed it is. 
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