Is Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard better than 10.4 Tiger?
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Daniel
Posted on: January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Believe it or not but there are many Apple Mac users still out there running Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, and they still wonder if Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is better than Tiger or not?
Some of these users have the Leopard software upgrade just sitting there and for many reasons have not bothered upgrading because they have no problems with Tiger. Although it’s always nice to try the latest software with the hope that there are some cool extras to play with.
Still these users procrastinate on upgrading, they hear about different problems with Leopard like wi-fi connectivity problems, being less stable than Tiger or Panther and more. Although they have never experienced some of the great new features like the amazing Time Machine.
So lets help these users upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard. What do you love and hate about Leopard and should everyone upgrade from Tiger?
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As someone who upgraded (clean install) to Leopard on launch day, I take my hat off to these slower adopters. I’m one of the guinea pigs that had a horrific time on launch day suffering with the blue screen of death, Mac-style. Two fruitless hours trying to contact Apple help. I finally got the help I needed from a Mac bulletin board.
Once bitten twice shy. Next time, with Snow Leopard 10.6, I’m not touching it until it’s close to its cycle, i.e. 14 months, when all the bugs are worked out, and when everyone’s getting excited about 10.7.
I used to be an early adopted — I have the T-shirts from launch day to prove it. Never again.
I left it a fair while to upgrade because I didn’t want to have the problems John had, but it still wasn’t perfect. And having had my stolen Tiger machine recovered (it was a 17inch Macbook Pro so it was quick to start with) I realised that Tiger is actually quicker in practice, stats be damned. Everything is much snappier than on my 1.5 year-younger Leopard machine, which is only a 15inch, although it is supposed to be higher spec on paper. Tiger is so snappy and literally never crashes, where applications like Mail and Safari crash quite frequently with Leopard. Don’t bother upgrading is my advice. There isn’t much you can’t do with Tiger and a bit of free software that you can with Leopard, and Snow Leopard is supposed to me much more compact and faster than Leopard, and it comes out in the next few months anyway. Give it another 3-6 to get fixed, mind you…