Mac OS X Leopard
28 Oct 2007 14:58
ear•ly a•dopt•er - noun
- a person
who starts using a product or technology as soon
as it becomes available.
early adopter is a person who isstupid
brave enough to use something that is brand new
and unproven with the risk to open pandora's box.
In my case it's the latest version of Mac OS X
version 10.5.0 (also known as Leopard)
which should replace my "old" Tiger version
10.4.10.
So, the first steps were to install Carbon Copy Cloner on Tiger to do the backup of my old installation (I might be brave but I'm not crazy and so a backup was compulsory). CCC is donationware which means the author lets you decide if and how much you want to pay. Here is a nice (german) documentation on what to do to get a bootable backup of Tiger.
People love pictures so here is a screenshot of CCC:
I planned to buy an external harddisk anyway to do backups of my personal data. So I ordered a 250GB version of an external 2,5" harddisk produced by Western Digital to store the backup of my old installation. The nice thing about that disk is, that is has no extra power supply but gets it's energy through the USB port.
Here is a photo (candy bar must be ordered separately)
The backup of my Tiger installation took about 2 hours. Because it's not recommended to work with the computer during the backup, I've watched a DVD during that time (the latest Covenant DVD - you'll see some comments later in the Photo Blog when I'm completely through with it). When the backup was done, I tried booting from the backup on the external harddisk - no problems so far. Booting the backup worked well and the system was just a little bit slower than on the internal harddisk of my laptop.
I've booted the Leopard DVD then and started the update of my Tiger installation. Another 30 minutes later I had a new cat on my MacBook.
Leopard:
The first impression is quite well. The migration of my personal data like eMails, addressbook and so on went flawlessly and It has some neat features I missed in Tiger (like virtual desktops) but there is also a drawback. Photoshop Elements 2.0 that came with my camera does not work anymore
Either I have to wait for PSE
5.0 or I have to look out for an alternative
photo editing software. Most stuff can be
done with Lightroom anyway (which still
works fine with Leopard) but sometimes it
was nice to have PSE for some retouching.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to discover the new features of Leopard now.
early adopter is a person who is
So, the first steps were to install Carbon Copy Cloner on Tiger to do the backup of my old installation (I might be brave but I'm not crazy and so a backup was compulsory). CCC is donationware which means the author lets you decide if and how much you want to pay. Here is a nice (german) documentation on what to do to get a bootable backup of Tiger.
People love pictures so here is a screenshot of CCC:
I planned to buy an external harddisk anyway to do backups of my personal data. So I ordered a 250GB version of an external 2,5" harddisk produced by Western Digital to store the backup of my old installation. The nice thing about that disk is, that is has no extra power supply but gets it's energy through the USB port.
Here is a photo (candy bar must be ordered separately)
The backup of my Tiger installation took about 2 hours. Because it's not recommended to work with the computer during the backup, I've watched a DVD during that time (the latest Covenant DVD - you'll see some comments later in the Photo Blog when I'm completely through with it). When the backup was done, I tried booting from the backup on the external harddisk - no problems so far. Booting the backup worked well and the system was just a little bit slower than on the internal harddisk of my laptop.
I've booted the Leopard DVD then and started the update of my Tiger installation. Another 30 minutes later I had a new cat on my MacBook.
Leopard:
The first impression is quite well. The migration of my personal data like eMails, addressbook and so on went flawlessly and It has some neat features I missed in Tiger (like virtual desktops) but there is also a drawback. Photoshop Elements 2.0 that came with my camera does not work anymore
Either I have to wait for PSE
5.0 or I have to look out for an alternative
photo editing software. Most stuff can be
done with Lightroom anyway (which still
works fine with Leopard) but sometimes it
was nice to have PSE for some retouching.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to discover the new features of Leopard now.