Keep OSX Tiger or install Leopard?

[fizzy_drink]

Apple have been good to me and replaced my MB 13" with a newer machine (slight imperfection in the plastic on my original one).

I was allowed to keep all discs etc, so now I have installation discs for both Tiger and Leopard.


I'm installing a new 250GB HD at some point, and I'm not sure whether to install Leopard because I've never used it.

I'm guessing it'll be buggy because its so new?

 

[Daz]

You'd be crazy not to install Leopard

 

[fizzy_drink]

Ok, but why?

I know absolutely nothing about mac (apart from how to install bootcamp on a triple partitioned drive).

I will be getting software for it in the future, however I havn't made the investment yet.

I DO like the media experience though... very nice.

 

[fizzy_drink]

PS Anyone ever got away with installing a 7200 rpm drive on a MB13" before?

 

[Daz]

There's absolutely no reason to use Tiger now Leopard is out.
I had the 7200rpm drive in my old Macbook Pro - was really good.. I'd imagine opening a Macbook would be a pain tho.

 

[fizzy_drink]

There's absolutely no reason to use Tiger now Leopard is out.
I had the 7200rpm drive in my old Macbook Pro - was really good.. I'd imagine opening a Macbook would be a pain tho.

Under the battery... then three screws will give you access to memory and HD.


It comes std with a 5400 drive, and all the upgrades they offer are 5400 drives... I wonder whether the faster ones get too hot in there (no vents for the drive).

 

[Dansta]

Dude, leopard has all the reasons why tiger is good and then a load of extras on top... theres no need not to.

 

[Daz]

There's absolutely no reason to use Tiger now Leopard is out.
I had the 7200rpm drive in my old Macbook Pro - was really good.. I'd imagine opening a Macbook would be a pain tho.

Under the battery... then three screws will give you access to memory and HD.


It comes std with a 5400 drive, and all the upgrades they offer are 5400 drives... I wonder whether the faster ones get too hot in there (no vents for the drive).

Ah, not bad then - wasn't that easy on an MBP if I remember..

My MBP did get super hot.. but the faster drives don't tend to add heat as such.. (Just battery drain, and even that is neglible)

 

[fizzy_drink]

^^

ooo... well, anything's faster than the std 120GB drive.

I'd like a faster windows startup time - that's the only thing I dislike about my MB... everything else is super.

 

[fizzy_drink]

OH, while I'm here:

Does anyone know why XP SP3 crashes IE?

I've edited the registry which sorted it, however I don't understand why Microsoft couldn't do that for us.

 

[Red Cup]

I fitted a 7200rpm Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 to my Macbook the other day. This drive is top of the 2.5" leaderboard on www.storagereview.com

It's noticeably much quicker and doesn't seem to have affected battery life much, if at all. No warmer either.

 

[planetx]

on the leopard v tiger debate.......I am still running tiger, but thinking about switching to leopard.
But I don't like the new imovies, will I be able to continue running the old imovie on leopard???

 

[cava83]

doesnt leopard have issues with CS3 or the other way around ?.

 

[Rich]

My CS2 would not run properly under Leopard, CS3 is fine.

 

[planetx]

rich any ideas with my imovies query??

 

[Rich]

I have never even opened it here under Leopard or Tiger on mine - sorry !

 

[Tom]

rich any ideas with my imovies query??

Its not a leopard related question.

Imovie HD and Imovie08 are separate applications. Both work under leopard.

 

[Longy]

I have issues with leopard and CS3 also issues with some of our production printers.

* Crashes
• Fonts Dropping
• random print problems

Just gotta wait for updates......

 

[vsva0]

well shov leopard on it and install windows!!! it's what i did a few weeks ago and you get the best of both worlds, im running windows xp on mine and i think it works quicker than mac osx! but there are quite a few things that aoy me about windows, so when they do i just change to mac operating system!
cant get better!