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Leopard with FCP 5.latest
I’m in an awkward position and need advice. I own an aging but very dependable G4 Gigabit/Ethernet running FCP 4.5 on a 10.3.9 OS platform. I am now gearing up for a project that, a portion of which, would help pay for a new Mac Pro and FCP 6.latest.
My problem is this – the Leopard release.
Now I’m hesitant to buy a new system which will have Leopard loaded onto it. You guys have, rightly so, pointed out the dangerous cavaets to doing so. But I don’t want to lose the bounce of the bucks from this project to help defer the cost of this very large equipment change for my business.
I just had a brainstorm which I’m hoping might be a good compromise. I already have the FCP5 upgrade which I never loaded on my G4 since I knew it would not have full functionality.
Brainstorm – what if I bought a new Mac Pro loaded with Leopard and only installed FCP5.latest. Should I still expect the same operational problems about which I have been reading on the COW? It sounds like to me that it isn’t Leopard so much as the shake hands with FCP6.latest.
Is that true? Would you advise me to go ahead with my purchase if I only installed FCP5.latest? Or should I just hold out and wait until the proper upgrades are in place on both sides of the equation (OS and FCP) for true peace of mind?
Thanks very much for your patience and advice.
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7 Replies
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I’d get a copy of Tiger, buy the new hardware and load it up with Tiger and FCS1.
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[JeremyG] “I’d get a copy of Tiger, buy the new hardware and load it up with Tiger and FCS1.”
Sounds like a good plan.
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[Frank Cervarich] ” It sounds like to me that it isn’t Leopard so much as the shake hands with FCP6.latest. “
No that is not it at all, it is that fact that ANY application can have issues with a new OS.
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Hi
Sorry, thick head moment here… 😉
How do you get Tiger for a new shipped-with-Leopard Mac?
Isn’t the retail Tiger Box only for legacy G5 Macs, and earlier?
Haven’t all Intel Mac Tiger disks been the ones that came in the box with the new Intel Mac, so unavailable to other users?I’m asking because I am part of a wider collaborative workgroup all using FCP 5.1.4.
However a colleague has bought a new Leopard iMac, but wants to collaborate with the workgroup, using a spare unused FCS 5.1 license.Anybody using 5.1.4 on top of Leopard without problems?
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Tiger is a universal binary. ALl you have to do is buy the Tiger OS:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apple/MA454ZA/
and install it when you get the new MacPro.
Jeremy
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Hi
It doesn’t say that, there’s no mention of Universal Binary on that page:
Requirements
Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processorThere have always been seperate PPC or Intel update downloads on Apple’s download pages – no Universal Binary version (that I’ve seen…)
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Paul, you are going to have to trust me. I have a MacPro that runs Tiger all day and all night and then all morning and afternoon. Before Leopard, that was just released a couple of weeks ago, what do you think all those intel MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs, and MacPros were running? TIger is Rosetta? No. They were running the Universal Binary Tiger (which is Tiger v10.4.4 or later).
Please. Trust me on this.
Or if you don’t trust me, a quick Google search brought up this:
https://www.apple.com/universal/
Jeremy
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