To Mac users : your take on Leopard upgrade ?

I have just received my copy of the Leopard Family Pack, and from what I’ve read so far, upgrading is not that easy...
Since there are a lot of Mac users @the MODx forums, I thought I’d probe you guys and see where you stand...

As far as I am concerned, I’ll back everything up with SuperDuper! to clone my current system to an external bootable drive before going along with it...
Leopard is a major upgrade, which means that quite a few apps break along the way...

I’ll keep you posted about my experience !

I upgraded my Tiger install on my macbook at the start of the week to Leopard and had some real quirky issues after the upgrade - random kernel panics, system preferences refusing to open etc.

Ended up doing a clean install in the end, been working fine since then. (I backed up using iBackup - works fine for the amount of data I was backing up). I’m just gradually reinstalling my apps as and when I need them.

So far, I haven’t found one app that doesn’t work under Leopard, fingers crossed that I don’t now I’ve said that

I did a clean install on a new system plus an upgrade on Dad’s.

Make sure if you upgrade there are no traces of the Unsanity APE stuff... it will kill your upgrade.

I’m more interested in the firewall bugs, and that report of a data loss bug when moving files if the destination goes away for some reason. Although that one was somebody moving files to a Samba server, and the server crashed at some point. It’s possible that the files had actually finished transferring, and since he was doing a move, the source files would be removed by then. I’d have to hear more about that one before I got too worried about it. Still, I do try not to get in on things before they’ve had time to shake out some of the odd bugs.

Anybody runs Parallels Workstation on your Mac? This is the main concern I have in upgrading to Leopard. I haven’t ordered the OS as feedback from Mac-list isn’t good. I am also torn with whether to get a new iMac that comes with Leopard or stay with my Macbook Pro for another year or two.

I installed Leopard on my g5. Everything went pretty smoothly except that I had an old version of the DiVX support libraries which caused hanging problems at boot. I rebooted into Single User command line mode, nuked the library, and I’ve been in Leopard happiness ever since.

I got stung by the blue screen deal on upgrade. I knew about the APE thing but didn’t realise I had it on my Mac but it wasn’t too much drama getting it sussed. Had a small issue with Finder on reboot, but i just killall’d Finder and haven’t had any issues since. I run Parallels and there’s no problems there either on Leopard (but we’re probably gonna switch to Fusion cos’ of how you can mount a BootCamp partition in Fusion.

Back !

Did the simple upgrade (not the archive and install) and it went... smooth !
After reading so many posts about the so-called disastrous upgrade process with Leopard, I just wonder if it’s plain FUD...

Really, I merely had to re-install the GMail widget is all that bugged so far
I am an happy upgrader

Edit : Did you also notice that Leopard uses quite a bit more RAM than Tiger did ?
I seem to notice that it uses about 30% more RAM...

But is it me or it’s also MUCH faster on Intel at least ?
I notice a nice performance increase here with 4Gb

A lot of active Mac users, the kind that will post on forums and such, have been happily hacking away at their system for years. Then they get all huffy when a straight upgrade chokes on their hacks.

I had exactly the same problem when Windows98 first came out. A lot of my boss’s customers had added whatever odd thing caught their fancy, and the upgrade would choke. The worst was when they’d just come in to the shop and buy a cheaper Win98 upgrade CD, then bring their hosed machine in, yelling and hollering. Next to impossible to get it to do anything; I’d have to boot off of a CD into command line just to back up their important stuff, then make them pay for a full 98 install disk and re-install fresh. Of course, nobody had their old 95 install disks; most of them were "ghosted" and had no install CD to begin with (before I started working there, of course )

I said earlier that there were no issues with Parallels but ATM here it always seems to hang when ’waking’ a suspended VM, although this has or is probably about to be fixed by an upgrade. About the RAM usage in Leopard, its the same as with Vista, RAM isn’t useful unless it’s being utilised and the actual feature here is memory management.