Morning,
G5 2.7, had an issue with restarting after Leopard was installed. I
quickly found a collection of simple remedies, just letting machine
sit, removing side panels and replacing. But once machine had updates
installed it all went well; although I shutdown instead of re-start
now. This has to do with fan controls which are greatly improved under
Leopard, no more departing aircraft when doing anything on machine it
actually utilises different sections in varied degrees, but sometimes
daemon does not reset when resetting machine. Hence the red light
light from within, and machine not booting.
Ram usage is significantly improved especially in Apples Pro products
as is processor allocation when assigning jobs between processors.
Rendering of FCP Studio products has been reduced as a consequence,
machine releases unwanted Ram and CPU's, something Tiger reluctantly
did without persuasion. This I would say is a contributing factor as
why fans are not so noisy as machine does not reach peak temperatures
so easily. Although compressor has had longish rendering times with
some captured files not noticed in Tiger. But, I have stopped job and
reset compressor through PID, sorts it usually sometimes just a timing
error.
Overall, machine does operate faster/reliably, there are a lot of
little things that make it an improvement. I have a flashed PC nVidia
Geforce 7800GS which has improved out of sight with Leopard before the
specific Graphic update, but exponentially since. Mail - iCal improved
synching as with Address Book, Dock.Time Machine although rather large
drive required, and jury still out as I have always utilised a Unix
tool rsync for backups which allows me to save across network. But
saying that one can see it's obvious advantages of Time Machine within
the simplicity of Mac OS X. Spaces another great tool from Unix and
about time Apple allowed users to tap into, more desktop space,
without the expense of hardware.
Annoying things:
iCal's new editing (cmd+e). Time zone on original install but fixed
since?
Bluetooth removed from Address Book.
FCP Studio updates not installing; Do not install Security Updates
until all of FCP is updated.
3rd Part Software although most have caught up, but to be sure just go
through your collection verify, especially printers, scanners, and
capture cards.
Once you have installed and updated, it becomes the Mac experience one
expects; with little improvements all over, and some yet to be
discovered.
Cheers!
`Rob...
On 28Feb2008, at 9:47 pm, Lloyd White wrote:
Every morning I check macfixit.com for the latest news and every day
it is
full of stories about Leopard failing in some way or another.
Problem after
problem.
Thursday morning had a huge list of problems.
I am still with Tiger, waiting for some stability in leopard.
Is it really as bad as it seems?
Lloyd
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