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By ijoselito | October 30, 2007
Since I started this blog I’ve tried to keep myself away from “Mac Vs PCs” discussions. I am a Mac user for a while but I am “forced” every class-day to use a PC and Windows software, including Windows XP. Well this is one of the reasons I tend to stay at home comfortably sat and watch my work getting done from my 23″ HD Display while my MacBook Pro, standing in its Elevator ( Griffin ), does all the work for me. Or at least it used to be like this.
Until last month, the maintenance work required to run my system in an optimum way was the odd research to find new tools or just applications that would fit with my requirements. One month ago I first got a copy of Leopard and I was ready to test it. Or was I?
I did installed the copy of Leopard in my second laptop ( the one under the bed ) and hey! this beta version was rock solid apparently. I ran a few tests, all the important ( for me CS3, BBedit & FCS) applications were running, obviously iLife and iWork 08 would run as soft as hot butter in their own environment, so I didn’t think about it as I rushed to install it onto my first laptop ( the one in the stand ). After the installation which did run very smooth, everything seemed to be working. The first crash was Parallels. The software was about to be updated to be Leopard compatible but when I tried to run the last update of Parallels I had a “blue screen” and after that the whole Parallels installation when off. I followed the instructions in the Parallels website and some other forums but I didn’t manage to get it back to work. I think that there was something wrong with the permissions in the beta version of Leopard because after a couple of days the OS did became a little bit unresponsive sometimes and it would create a fair amount of error messages and application crashes.
Now you are thinking “that was a beta version”, and that’s true, it was the BETA version. Other problems were low WI-FI signal (I have an AirPort Extreme Station set up to use the ‘n’ protocol), Time Machine errors while backing up, display mode “lid-closed” never worked, and the odd Safari hang.
Friday 26th, October. Leopard is released to the public. Monday 29th, October, I went to the closest provider to buy a copy. That was most reasonable solution, or that’s all I wanted to do really. I started installing my copy of Leopard and the first thing was to make sure I wasn’t going to lose any files. Ok, done, the “Archive and Installed” function option did very well, OK, very smooth now, that’s it! Installation superb. Let’s see my applications, umm all fine, very good. Let’s see Parallels, umm very nice, it’s all working!, wait a second….sorry I have to restart because there was a “blue you have to restart your computer screen”…..and another one…..and another one. Well in just one day I have to restart my computer more that in the last two years, that’s worrying. The reasons, kernel panics “normal in the first version” of an OS, but not what we Apple users like to have from the Cupertino firm.
So I am keeping an eye on what’s happening, the Leopard is staying in my desk for the moment because I just can’t live without its neat new features…
Jose
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