[...] more guidance on preparing your Mac for Leopard, you’ll want to consult this article, which covers giving your Mac a basic health checkup and backing up your [...]

Waiting for my Apple store preorder to be delivered. Maybe Monday? In the meantime I’m enjoying first-adopter stories and making a full backup.

Maybe Apple overwhelmed Federal Express.

Peace,
Gene

I got my copy last night at the Regent St store in London.

My process was:
a) Run Applejack to get rid of most of the detritus and then run through the Apps folder and delete anything I don’t use.
b) Carbon Copy Clone to my backup drive. My G4 MDD has 3 internal drive and I use one as a full backup. CCC3 is a great piece of software.
c) Archive & Install. I noticed that it took a while to run the optimiser at the end. The Installer seemed to be on “about a minute” for a good quarter hour.
d) Check stuff. Everything seems to be working fine. I had to reinstall the Logitech Control Centre for my trackball, but that was only to get the extra buttons working properly. Also, I had to turn my Airport on, so whilst the settings were transferred, it didn’t activate them.

Contrary to the blurb, Time Machine will run quite happily on an internal drive, so I don’t need to get an enclosure for my backup drive. Everything else look great. I’m quite impressed with the updates to the Finder, it’s snappy and responsive.

Waiting for my Apple store preorder to be delivered. Maybe Monday? In the meantime I’m enjoying first-adopter stories and making a full backup.

I got my copy this morning (Apple Store pre-order). It installed very easily and I was amazed at how little of my software broke (only a couple of Haxies, everything else appears to work fine, certainly everything I need for getting work done). All in all, this is the most hassle-free major OS upgrade I can remember.

While Microsoft labors with massive incompatibilities among applications and drivers with Vista, Apple is just showing the way all over again.

Peace,
Gene

I got my copy this morning (Apple Store pre-order). It installed very easily and I was amazed at how little of my software broke (only a couple of Haxies, everything else appears to work fine, certainly everything I need for getting work done). All in all, this is the most hassle-free major OS upgrade I can remember.

Thanks Gene,
Looking forward to your review.

It is, in fact, under development and being written (like this response) on Safari 3 under Leopard

Peace,
Gene

Zero performance issues on a 1.67 GHz G4 Powerbook.

Did a full backup with SuperDuper and then did an upgrade install. No issues.

Thanks Gene,
Looking forward to your review.

George,
How’s the over all speed?

I am going to install it on a PowerMac G5 2.3 Dual Processor, but am more curious to see how it will run on my PowerMac G5 1.8 Single Processor at work. Right now I’m still running 10.3.9 and with my boss asking me what upgrades we need to get. I am debating to moving to Tiger or Leopard. If Leopard runs like crap on it… then Tiger it is.

So long as you have at least 1GB of RAM on your G5, I think it’ll sing and dance quite nicely. Take Apple’s minimum recommendation of 512MB with a large grain of salt, however.

As to performance, I’ll have more to say in my review, but you won’t be disappointed.

Peace,
Gene

George,
How’s the over all speed?

I am going to install it on a PowerMac G5 2.3 Dual Processor, but am more curious to see how it will run on my PowerMac G5 1.8 Single Processor at work. Right now I’m still running 10.3.9 and with my boss asking me what upgrades we need to get. I am debating to moving to Tiger or Leopard. If Leopard runs like crap on it… then Tiger it is.

Thanks guys.
Lucky Aussie!

Note that an unregistered copy SuperDuper! will create a full bootable backup – which is all you need (always assuming you have a spare external HD with enough space on it).

One advantage of living “Down Under” – we’re quite a few hours ahead of you, and I’ve been running Leopard now for several hours. WOW! It’s everything Apple has promised (so far), and better than I could hope.

I’m looking forward to a full review from you, Gene – Hint, Hint!! !

Be patient, George, and your request will be answered.

Peace,
Gene

Note that an unregistered copy SuperDuper! will create a full bootable backup – which is all you need (always assuming you have a spare external HD with enough space on it).

One advantage of living “Down Under” – we’re quite a few hours ahead of you, and I’ve been running Leopard now for several hours. WOW! It’s everything Apple has promised (so far), and better than I could hope.

I’m looking forward to a full review from you, Gene – Hint, Hint!! !

I don’t have any software to do a clone backup and I am thinking, why would I buy backup software when I won’t need it after Time Machine arrives? So I was trying to figure out how to avoid buying the software.

And you can also do a search at http://www.versiontracker.com for “cloning” utilities, if you prefer to try other alternatives. Not all of them carry a price-tag. You should be backing up before you install, rather than expect to do so after.

Peace,
Gene