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Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death".. lol
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Ou grote
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I installed Leopard (I am in the USA), after doing an extensive carbon copy back up of my drive. I am running MBP.
I too had the blue screen - after runnning out of patience I simply rebooted the machine and it restarted again showing the blue screen, but eventually came up.
After the install ran for about 1.5 hours. I had 9.5 gigs spare on my drive when I started, and now have 4.1 gigs.
I have been experiencing a very sluggish system, and have slowly been turning off all 3rd party apps. I have a lot of Photography programs, and when I performed Apple update, there was a 100+mb Aperture update, which I was not aware would be coming out with Leopard.
Only been on Mac for 1 year, so not as technically adept yet, but still loving it. There are some cool features, and I am sure once the crinkles are sorted it is going to be awesome.
I too had the blue screen - after runnning out of patience I simply rebooted the machine and it restarted again showing the blue screen, but eventually came up.
After the install ran for about 1.5 hours. I had 9.5 gigs spare on my drive when I started, and now have 4.1 gigs.
I have been experiencing a very sluggish system, and have slowly been turning off all 3rd party apps. I have a lot of Photography programs, and when I performed Apple update, there was a 100+mb Aperture update, which I was not aware would be coming out with Leopard.
Only been on Mac for 1 year, so not as technically adept yet, but still loving it. There are some cool features, and I am sure once the crinkles are sorted it is going to be awesome.
That Aperture update is available under Tiger as well - noticed it on Friday.
Will get it at work..
Installed the update today ahead of leopard.That Aperture update is available under Tiger as well - noticed it on Friday.
Will get it at work..
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Well all seems fine now. Loving it.
Ou grote
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Is it best to format and then do clean install as per windows?
Probably, nothing is likely to beat a fresh install . . . but I never do.
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Not surprised. They become struck dumb whenever they stuff up and then release a sneaky update in a few weeks and pretend it never happened at all.
Was it worthwile dishing out a grand? Do you see any significant improvements?
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Well now that I have spent most of the day playing with it, I must be honest and say I am not as impressed as I thought i would be. I bought the family pack for $199, and consider $40 per computer as very reasonable.
There are a few cool features. I really like Time machine for automatic backups, the new browsing options and upgraded spotlight.
To be totally honest if I was in SA, I would not bother spending R1K for this, but for $40 i is worth it. I will delve deeper into Leopard throughout the week. I just love the ease and simplicity of Mac compared to decades with MS.
There are a few cool features. I really like Time machine for automatic backups, the new browsing options and upgraded spotlight.
To be totally honest if I was in SA, I would not bother spending R1K for this, but for $40 i is worth it. I will delve deeper into Leopard throughout the week. I just love the ease and simplicity of Mac compared to decades with MS.
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WRT to performance I have not really noticed an improvement , but then again it does not seem slower.
Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom all seem to operating at the same speed. Microsoft Office was a little slower in the beginning, and quite a few 3rd party app's are not working and have been disabled.
The system seems to reboot a little faster. My disk is 95% full.
Time Machine really seems to perform a back up a lot faster than any other programs I have used, although it is still running.
Once again this is not a major upgrade/change compared to Tiger, but still enjoying it.
Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom all seem to operating at the same speed. Microsoft Office was a little slower in the beginning, and quite a few 3rd party app's are not working and have been disabled.
The system seems to reboot a little faster. My disk is 95% full.
Time Machine really seems to perform a back up a lot faster than any other programs I have used, although it is still running.
Once again this is not a major upgrade/change compared to Tiger, but still enjoying it.
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just wana add my 2c.
i work at the apple store in sandton. on the 26th we received 100 copies of leopard. it was launched at 7pm. the store closed at 7:30 or summin. saturday morning at 11 ( we open at 9) every copy was sold out. it was mad. we only had 1 or 2 customers come back cause they tried the upgrade and got blue screen.
i installed it on my macbook and had this problem. was about to do fresh install when i saw the 3rd install option. the one where it saves ur home folder or summin. worked perfectly and now im frikken loving leopard!
i work at the apple store in sandton. on the 26th we received 100 copies of leopard. it was launched at 7pm. the store closed at 7:30 or summin. saturday morning at 11 ( we open at 9) every copy was sold out. it was mad. we only had 1 or 2 customers come back cause they tried the upgrade and got blue screen.
i installed it on my macbook and had this problem. was about to do fresh install when i saw the 3rd install option. the one where it saves ur home folder or summin. worked perfectly and now im frikken loving leopard!