What should I do?

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Permalink Reply by Joshua McClain on September 15, 2008 at 3:35pm

Model Name: iMac (I am running OS X Tiger)
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Memory: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

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Permalink Reply by Joshua McClain on September 16, 2008 at 7:37pm

I have had mixed views on this.. some people I have talked to said to go ahead and upgrade to Leopard.. then others like yourself said to wait till Snow Leopard comes out lol. I don't know what to do.

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Permalink Reply by Cookenstein on October 17, 2008 at 3:53pm

Go man, Go!!

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Permalink Reply by digitalhavoc08 on September 16, 2008 at 9:52pm

Yes leopard is BETTER by leaps and bounds over tiger. Thats my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Cisco on September 20, 2008 at 4:42pm

I believe he did ask if Leopard was better than Tiger.

And I would wait until October and see what happens. Snow Leopard is not going to have any new features, just improves on performance. I'd otherwise go for the upgrade. Leopard is what got me into Macs and I love it.

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Permalink Reply by Computerwhiz1 on September 20, 2008 at 9:25pm

Go for leopard. Now that I have gotten used to taking advantage of all the new features I would say go for it. Also they have now gotten most of the bugs fixed. Snow Leopard will be incremental and shouldn't cost much to go from 10.5 to 10.6. Also you have plenty of power. I have the Mac Mini lower then yours and I do video editing and such. Works great.

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Permalink Reply by Colin H. on October 2, 2008 at 4:57pm

Umm I think Snow Leopard is only an upgrade, not an operating system. :)

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Permalink Reply by CoffeehouseSchmuck (Ed Webb) on October 14, 2008 at 7:49am

If its a matter of $$$$MONEY$$$$$
wait for snow leopard

if its NOT............upgrade to Leopard

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Permalink Reply by Cookenstein on October 17, 2008 at 3:51pm

Hi, I guess my question to you would be, what kind of hardware are you running? If your machine is an intel based Mac within the past 2 years, and you have at least 2 gigs of Ram, I'd say take the plunge to Leopard. The kinks are well worked out now, and it's a damn solid OS. As for Snow leopard, it's hard to say yet what the demands and needs of it will be. It may be a 64bit only OS, maybe not. In the meantime, I am unsure that the updates will not be as major as those from Tiger to Leopard. Go for it! That's my thoughts! Tiger was great! Leopard is now much better.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Lidgren on September 7, 2009 at 9:35pm

I went ahead and upgraded. No sky fell in! The only thing which immediately happened was that I had to immediately upgrade plenty of applications. BTW, you can do this manually but I found that the most time efficient method was to run my version of AppFresh. It found, downloaded and installed almost all of the new Snow Leopard compatible versions I needed. For the few that did not work this way I just downloaded and installed them manually. IN ALL CASES when I downloaded the Snow Leopard versions my existing licence numbers worked just fine for the upgraded applications.

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Permalink Reply by Cookenstein on October 25, 2009 at 5:28am

I think you will have more success upgrading to Leopard than to Snow Leopard. If you have a machine from the 2006 genre as I do, Leopard is an excellent upgrade. Snow Leopard from what I am seeing has some kinks to work out still.

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