Monthly Archives: October 2007

Leopard – the Install 05

The update was truly painless on my laptop, a recent-model MacBook Pro. Everything just flew along and before too long it was running just fine. For a major OS update, this one really has been a piece of cake. A … Continue reading

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Leopard – the Install 04

Amazing, but true. It’s gone perfectly. There don’t seem to be any applications that don’t work with it, and everything is humming along. Spotlight finished working through my system disc and can look up anything much more quickly than the … Continue reading

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Leopard – the Install 03

OK — at this moment I’m writing from Leopard. So far the install has gone without a hitch. I’m wondering a bit why my menu bar isn’t transparent — perhaps that’s calling on the graphics card a bit too much. … Continue reading

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Leopard – the Install 02

So far…it says there are 8 minutes left to go. Initially it reported it was going to need something like 4 hours, but that changed in a big hurry. Nothing seems to be having any problems. But of course the … Continue reading

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Leopard – the Install 01

The saga continues… Right now it’s checking the DVD for consistency. Very, very good idea; you don’t want a bad disk to mess up your installation.

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Installing Leopard

At this moment, my desktop computer (Power Macintosh dual 2.7 G5s) is installing Leopard as an upgrade. I had done some reading around and found out that in some cases, Archive & Install updates weren’t quite working right on G5s. … Continue reading

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