wbarnhill
Final Approach
I'm just wondering if anyone else has dealt with 10.5 yet. My initial reaction to Leopard was "This is gonna be great", until I got to the hour long "Disc Verification" stage PRIOR to the actual install which took an additional hour. So OS X installs now take longer than Windows installs.
Ok, so I'm installed and ready to go, and Leopard boots for the first time. Odd, it's a bit slower than Tiger... Maybe that's just the first start up. Ok, Time Machine, my 500GB external drive should be perfect for this... Oh, wait... Mac wants to reformat it first which means Windows won't be able to read it. There goes that idea.
A restart just to clear out any installation residue in memory, and once again, it's slow booting. When Tiger would literally jump to life, Leopard reminds me of XP Pro slowly loading piece by piece. Dock, menu bar, hard drive icons, and finally the rest of my icons. Ok, it's booted, how about programs. Crap. Bouncing icons for 20 seconds before the program actually shows up.
This is a 2.4 Ghz C2D with 4GB of RAM. What the heck is going on here.
Then finally this morning I get to work and go to wake it from it's sleep, and the login screen pops up but lo and behold, they beach ball of death just sits there spinning and I can't type in anything, just move my mouse pathetically around without being able to click anything either. So a hard power down and started back up and here I am.
As soon as I have the patience to do so, I'm going back to Tiger. Leopard has disappointed me greatly.
Other thoughts and opinions?
Edit: Before anyone suggests spotlight indexing, the system ran all day Monday and Tuesday, and there's not much on here. Index should be done by now.
Ok, so I'm installed and ready to go, and Leopard boots for the first time. Odd, it's a bit slower than Tiger... Maybe that's just the first start up. Ok, Time Machine, my 500GB external drive should be perfect for this... Oh, wait... Mac wants to reformat it first which means Windows won't be able to read it. There goes that idea.
A restart just to clear out any installation residue in memory, and once again, it's slow booting. When Tiger would literally jump to life, Leopard reminds me of XP Pro slowly loading piece by piece. Dock, menu bar, hard drive icons, and finally the rest of my icons. Ok, it's booted, how about programs. Crap. Bouncing icons for 20 seconds before the program actually shows up.
This is a 2.4 Ghz C2D with 4GB of RAM. What the heck is going on here.
Then finally this morning I get to work and go to wake it from it's sleep, and the login screen pops up but lo and behold, they beach ball of death just sits there spinning and I can't type in anything, just move my mouse pathetically around without being able to click anything either. So a hard power down and started back up and here I am.
As soon as I have the patience to do so, I'm going back to Tiger. Leopard has disappointed me greatly.
Other thoughts and opinions?
Edit: Before anyone suggests spotlight indexing, the system ran all day Monday and Tuesday, and there's not much on here. Index should be done by now.