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By: itsmedamon

itsmedamon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:46:27 +0000

So far, Leopard has been great, except my NES emulator (NEStopia) no longer functions properly.

Going to try a reinstall…

By: Tips From Tony » Blog Archive » Leopard Update/Time Machine

Tips From Tony » Blog Archive » Leopard Update/Time Machine — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:44:35 +0000

[...] Leopard (OS X 10.5) on two of our household’s computers, I’m satisfied that there are no major glitches to watch out for, as long as you install it [...]

By: Marvin Sum

Marvin Sum — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:50:35 +0000

@Jasper: Sounds like a bug to me then. Hmm…

@Steve M. and Pedro: It seems like resolution independence was not included. I’m double checking this right now, but there have been multiple posts on some of the developers’ forums confirming this.

@simty and Bob: Thanks for the tips!

By: simty

simty — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:36:28 +0000

Web Clips can’t be saved or shared. Unless you know different!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:00:05 +0000

Time Machine does not require an external disk, FYI. I have 2 500gb SATA drives in my G5, and Time Machine is happily using the second internal disk.

Also tested with 2 x 250gb disks on a dual 1.25ghz G4 with 1gb of RAM. Leopard runs fine. So does Time Machine.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:57:26 +0000

I have noticed that if Leopard goes to sleep, the USB Hubs will not reinitialize and I get the beachball, having to coldboot. Also, Repairing Permission seems to take 4X as long. Other than that, it seems to run very smoothly on my G5 PPC. I installed it on an internal partition as a new install, taking me only 40 mins to install. Here are my specs:
G5 April 2004
6.5 Gb Ram
ATI XT 800 XT
DP PPC 2.3 Mhz
Also, Syncing will load everything from my .Mac account except bookmarks from Safari….weird.

Hope this helps…

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:15:51 +0000

@Marvin Sum – viewing all CPU usage for all processes, I’m using 4% CPU so there’s no call for the fans to be active.

@link – I briefly used SMC today, but my default fan speed was set to the lowest possible setting and it was still doing about 6k rpm.

I’m going to monitor it for a while to see what happens. Don’t know if it might be a coincidence, but there’s a thread on Macrumors where people are talking about their fans behaving erratically, so I’m tempted to think it’s not.

Thanks for your suggestions guys

By: Steve M.

Steve M. — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:32:26 +0000

Like pedro, I am interested in resolution independence. Any word on whether it is in or out?

By: Frasert Drew

Frasert Drew — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:05:17 +0000

@James C, on the Time Machine issue, i think it was removed as it was causing issues. Many of the earlier Leopard builds had major issues, and Time Machine was one of the things causing issues (from what’s been on the interwebs). So maybe it was going to take Apple too long to sort out the problems? I can see it being problematic due to 3rd Party Routers, and if 3 Mac’s, or more, are simultaneously trying to back up to one Airport Express, that’s a lot of data. Hopefully, however, Apple will sort it out soon!!

By: James C

James C — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:38:16 +0000

I am very disappointed about no WiFi Time Machine (with AirPort) and not having notes sync with iPhone. Honestly, I’ll be kinda pissed if the iPhone notes aren’t added in the first update. And having Time Machine on a laptop seems a little pointless if I have to go plug in every time I want to use it; besides, WiFI backup isn’t very slow if you’re using 802.11n

As far as the features that are currently included in 10.5, I’m going to wait until I have used it a few weeks before I decide anything.

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:56:30 +0000

does anyone know if resolution independence is in there too? there is no reference on the 300 features list

By: MB-switcher

MB-switcher — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:15 +0000

thanks for the many insights.
I’m holding off with my leopard upgrade but it sure looks great and timemachine seems to be a really cool backup solution.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:05:49 +0000

How are you finding getting used to the new translucent menu bar?

By: link

link — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:39:17 +0000

Jasper, I use SMC fan control which allows me to set default fan speeds but if heat increases is also overridden by the thermal fan control Apple uses.

By: Leopard Coverage: A Bit of Friendly Apple Vs Microsoft Humour | MacApper

Leopard Coverage: A Bit of Friendly Apple Vs Microsoft Humour | MacApper — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:31:03 +0000

[...] was released yesterday, with a few minor flaws which we reported earlier. However, on a day in which Apple has successfully managed to roll out a huge OS upgrade with so [...]

By: Marvin Sum

Marvin Sum — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:07:47 +0000

@Jasper: Sounds like some application is consuming a lot of CPU power. It happens sometimes in Tiger too, especially when you’re browsing a lot of Flash in Safari or Firefox.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:53:55 +0000

The only thing I’ve found that’s been a bit irritating is the seemingly random use of the fans (using a MacBook Pro). Sometimes they’re sat at 5000rpm, sometimes around 1900 – with only Safari, Mail, Adium, Textmate and Terminal open. Don’t know whether there’ll be a fix or not, but it is annoying