os X 10.5 leopard!

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:04 am

so who is excited? who's preordered it? buying it?! I need a new mac, all mine are g4 era :/ 10.5 requires a g4 and up, but i think there may be a hack out to turn off the core animation so it will run on a g3, justl ike ilife 2006+ wont run on a g3 but you can hack it to, or at least some of the apps.

WaveAction · Post by **WaveAction** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:07 am

i wouldnt know what this is but i guessing it's for a mac not a fan of the macs, they're pretty cool though, like the new G3's i think they are

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:14 am

I'm looking forward to it. I've had stuff like multiple desktops in Linux for as long as I've been playing in Linux, I always have eleventeen different apps open all the time so it really helps declutter... So for all of Leopard's features that one seems to be my fav... All in all, it looks promising.It's probably going to slow my mighty 1.24 GHz G4 mini w/ 512 megs of RAM though. I'll probably hold off on it for the time being, I think Tiger puts enough strain on this thing as it is.

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:26 am

the dashboard is a mem hogging freak. Also the minimac uses a slow rpm hdd, 5400, hence the slowness you see even in tiger. My parents also have that same minimac, but i just upgraded them to 1gb of ram. I also disabled their dashboard and that helped a ton. BUT if you use/like dashboard, get a app called Kickstart it makes life so much better. it preloads your dash so when you hit f12 it doesnt just sit there loading :/

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:32 am

I went ahead and ordered it. My mini is out of warranty in a few days, so....time to pop the case open and add more RaM.....I actually have a gig that I just pulled out of my laptop that I think will work. DDR2-5300

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:39 am

i got a 1ghz g4 w/ 1gb ram im going to try this on. My roommate has a new macbook so his will work fine. If apple releases a solid state laptop id on that like white rice

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:06 am

I thought dashboard would be cool to have when I didn't have it... But I really haven't used it much now that it is there. Maybe killing it would be nice.

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:16 pm

to enable/disable dashboard in 10.4 tiger, open a terminal and type!To turn Dashboard off: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES To turn Dashboard on: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO You have to restart the Dock after making either change for it to take effect: killall Dock

Petrucci914 · Post by **Petrucci914** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:50 am

I'll maybe wait until 10.5.1 comes out. Tiger has been good to me.

ramenboy... · Post by **ramenboy...** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:41 am

my g4 ibook just died. or at least the hard drive did. took about an hour to boot up, then right away it said the hard drive had no more memory to run any apps. so now i'm on my previous g3 ibook just so i can keep up with emails and get online a little bit.not a techy person. i don't trust myself with the tight insides of a 12" ibook. so i might drop it off at microcenter to get it fixed. anyways, back on topic, they just installed leopard on my computers at work, so i'll see how cool it is when/if i get back to work on friday.

Petrucci914 · Post by **Petrucci914** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:42 am

How so? Leopard isn't out yet.

ramenboy... · Post by **ramenboy...** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:52 am

aaah...maybe the latest 10.x but i'll find out when i get back to worki believe they just installed 10.4.6 could be wrong. its happened before

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:00 am

10.4.9 just came out i think.... that was a system update. To install leopard you'd need a new cd and do the full install. Not that i condone things....but leopard is leaked already.....

Petrucci914 · Post by **Petrucci914** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:01 am

I'll leak on you, buddy!

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:22 pm

easy adam...stop leaking your SC oil on me ...euw

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:31 am

(removed)!!! im installing it now!

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:28 am

I've had it since Friday morning. It's pretty good, but the install time was ......well, insane....6 hours.

Petrucci914 · Post by **Petrucci914** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:32 am

6 Hours? Are you running an air pump?

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:50 am

Nope, Mac Mini, Power PC chip, with 2 300+ gig external HD's.

Petrucci914 · Post by **Petrucci914** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:52 am

Wow. I had one of those. They weren't speed demons but they were decent. I'm surprised that took that long.

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:17 pm

wow it shouldnt take 6 hours...did you upgrade? or do a full reinstall with format? it should only take that long if theres some bad hardware... like a dirty/dying dvdrom, harddrive (it is a 4200rpm drive but shouldnt take that long).if you installed it to a external drive ie. firewire or usb then yes i can see it taking a couple hours or so but even tiger could install to a firewire within a hour.you should run the diagnostic disks that came with your mini mac for any hardware errors...and run disk warrior or do the mac disk utility for verify/repair on that hard drive....

tribalman · Post by **tribalman** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:40 am

well this explains the 6 hour install. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2...ems/1wait to upgrade to OS x 10.5. there are more holes than swiss cheese and no apps to try and help close them. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2...ems/1wow, i wonder which had a worse opening week, vista or leopard?

northvibe · Post by **northvibe** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:32 am

i ran into a install error myself last night. My tiger install was kinda messed up (needs a system repair done) so when i went to install leopard it had a install error of "essentials" apps not able to install. Blah...well I need to repair 10.4 to see what data is on there...blow it away then put 10.5 on. SO if you install it on a clean drive or format and install your times should be less than 1 hour, its just the "upgrading" that can run into those install issues. thats the problem with writing a OS that runs on 2 hardware structures, intel and ppc.

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