Leopard Roundup, and Why I’m Not Upgrading Yet

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Yes, Leopard’s out.  Even as a daily Mac user, I’ve not upgraded yet, and I won’t be for a while.  There’s a very good reason for this, I work in software development.  It’s that simple.  I can’t remember the last time a so-called point zero release worked, it just doesn’t happen.  When you’re talking about over 300 changes, including some fairly major new pieces of functionality, it all spells steer clear.  In particular Time Machine worries me.  Not only is is a major piece of functionality but it has hooks into the core of the OS.  If something goes wrong with Time Machine, you’ll be screwed.

Despite my personal lack of Leopard, I’ve still be following the coverage closely.  So when things do stabalise, I can jump on the band wagon.  So, I’ve listed below some of the must read Leopard coverage, everything from glowing praise to installing OSX on Windows to problems and overcoming them.

• 24 Hours of Leopard at TUAW - Covering pretty much every aspect of Leopard at The Unofficial Apple Blog.
• Leopard Blowout at Engadget - A huge gallery and nicely written coverage from the lads over at Engadget.
• Unabridged Leopard Test Notes at Gizmodo - More detailed coverage of Leopard by Gizmodo.
• MacWorld Leopard Review.
• Make a Bootable mirror of your drive at Lifehacker - Make sure you do this, just in case the worse happens.
• How to Perform a Clean Install of Leopard by TUAW.
• Install Leopard on a PC - Sacrilegious!
• Time Machine doesn’t back up to Airport Disks - Despite what I said above, this is one of the main reasons for my delay in picking up Leopard.  You have a USB disk connections to an Airport Extreme base station, and you connect your computer to the bae station.  Why can’t I back up to it Apple?  If I’m using my MacBook, I don’t want to be tethered to a USB disk in order for Time Machine to be of any use to me.  This, sucks.
• Application Enhancer Causing Leopard Problems - My advice, completely remove Application Enhancer from your system if you intend on doing an upgrade.  This almost falls into the point zero area but doesn’t really as it’s all down to a third party vendor.  It sounds like this problem will still be around come 10.5.10, so Apple get away free from this one.  Although some more thorough testing with popular apps like Application Enhancer would be nice, at least that way they can provide some nice installation advice and work arounds.

Have you upgraded to Leopard yet?  If so, how did it go?  If not, why not?

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