I successfully upgraded my iMac to Leopard. No problems in the install itself. Total install time I’m not sure, but my guess is that it took about an hour and a half. Basically, I got it started and then went off to watch a movie, so I’m not sure about the times.
After the install, most things still ran. My old version of XCode chokes on startup though. And under Bootcamp there are some devices that weren’t recognized properly. I manually had to install an iSight driver I found on the net, which was a bummer. I hoped that Leopard would take care of all of this for me. It didn’t. And I have a couple more devices to fix up based on XP’s device manager. Oh well.
My impression of Leopard so far? Well, I had no choice but to upgrade. I need Bootcamp for XP and the beta version of Bootcamp was set to expire. Is the upgrade worth it? So far, its a big yawn on my part. I’m not keen on the overall look–which really isn’t that big a deal anyway–but it reminds me of something I’d see on a college student’s computer circa 1997. Anyway, I can live with it. And I need to try out Time Machine to see if it really works the way I’d like it to. I’ve read some things about recovery being an issue, which makes me wonder about it’s value.
Which do I like better, Vista or Leopard. So far I’d say they are what they are. I’m partial to ink input–I whiteboard thoughts a lot on my Tablet PC, so Vista has the edge there–even with Apple’s InkWell technology. Other than that though, I’d say the OSes are on par with each other and both are incremental updates that make sense, but are NOT earth changing.
One new thing I did right away was to download Adobe’s Flex development environment, which is based on Eclipse. Not bad. Top of my list now is to code up a version of the SearchTIP in Flash. I’m very curious to see what the response is like. My guess is that it will reach two or three times more people than the Silverlight version. Sometimes you have to play to the peanut gallery to get noticed.