fred avolio's musings

As I mentioned earlier, I put off installing Leopard until 10.5.2 came out. The reason was, while I knew friends who had a smooth installation, I worried about the] hassles I read about from others. The things I read seemed… well not very “Mac-ish” and more “Vista-ish.” (Kind of like what Apple says in their ad Party is Over and PR Lady, which mentions people downgrading to XP from Vista). So, I bravely waited. (☺)

I did install it and have Leopard up and running just fine on my PowerBook G4. (The Intel MacBook Pro I use at APL will be upgraded when IT tests all Lab-required applications.) The short version is:

• It was not without problems. I.e., it was not painless.
  
• Some applications needed tweaking when I was finally done.
  
• was/am very glad for my back-up procedure. It made some of the restarts I had painless.
  

In the next week, I will blog on the following:

1. The installation. The steps I went through. What failed. The easy and simple fix.
   
2. Problems I had, in particular with iCal, iChat, AddressBook, and Mail, and how I fixed them.
   
3. The good stuff. Cool things, things I don’t yet use, good surprises.
   

Look for these in the next week or so.