Category Archives: OS X 10.5 Leopard

Leopard Upgrade: Executing the Plan - Part 1

By ray | October 26, 2007

The Leopard DVD was waiting at more door when I got home tonight, left by Fedex 10 hours earlier (damn work!). My memory upgrade had arrived earlier than expected and was waiting with the DVD. So I set about executing my upgrade plan, which is to do a full erase and install.
I synced my iPod [...]

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Leopard: The Plan

By ray | October 25, 2007

Leopard’s 36 hours away and I have my upgrade plan. The smart thing to do would be upgrade a spare Mac first rather than my primary machine. So I was going to upgrade my MacBook first and then test out my software on that.
But I shifted gears. I’m going to upgrade my primary Mac (iMac) [...]

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The Time Machine Quandry

By ray | October 23, 2007

There’s been a lot of noise about the Time Machine feature in Leopard. The idea isn’t new, functionally it appears similar to Shadow Copy in Windows Vista. It has a flashy interface which looks good in demos, but I’d almost prefer Microsoft’s right-click and select from a menu. Maybe I’m just turned off by flashy [...]

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Ready For OS X 10.5 Leopard?

By ray | October 22, 2007

[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.]
It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used [...]

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