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New Computer = Leopard. Best case scenario?
Hi everybody,
I’ve read the well documented problems that many a studio 2 user is experiencing with Leopard installs and upgrades. However, I’ve also heard it said that there are some users that are still fully functional and not having that many problems when installing “the right way” (and I believe that right way is wiping clean and installing fresh).
I have a new Mac Pro on order and it’s pre-installed with Leopard. I’m going to be installing FCS2 on it straight away and it’s my hope that I will be able to start on projects there ASAP as my old computer is aging and slow.
So the question is – can any FCS2/Leopard users that are fully operational and possibly had their system pre-installed with the new OS give me anything good to hear? Is this the most ideal way to run a FCS2 install using Leopard if it must be done?
I’m hoping for the best. If it doesn’t work out I’ll just continue editing on my older machine until the fixes are in and the bugs are smoothed over. I just wanted to see if there were any people out there with positive experiences. Thanks.
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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Do you have Tiger left over from other machines? I suggest putting another hard drive in your computer and install Tiger on one drive, Leopard on another. Use Tiger as the main drive and boot to Leopard to play around and Test.
Do you have capture cards? Do you have Adobe CS3? Any plugins, raid cards any other peripherals? Are they ready for Leopard?
Jeremy
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How do you boot from the Second Drive with Tiger installed on it?
I’m getting ready to purchase a new 24″ IMac to load Final Cut Studio 2 on and I have the same concern as the person that posted this question.
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Ah. WIth an iMac you don’t. Sorry about that. You could boot from a firewire drive though.
Jeremy
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Actually, I take that back. You could partition a 1TB drive into two 500 Gigs partitions and install Tiger on one, Leopard on the other. To choose which partition to start up from, simply hold option when starting your mac.
Jeremy
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Sounds like a good plan – the only thing is that I don’t have a Tiger retail install disc. I only have restore discs from my Intel Macbook – those restore disks won’t work right on a MacPro right? Or will they? I never really thought about that…
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Paul Escandon
Producer | Director | Editor
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University -
They might. I am sure there’s a fire sale of Tiger at some stores somewhere.
Jeremy
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Just make sure Apple hasn’t crippled the ability to boot into Tiger. As with previous new systems, once a new OS is released, Apple firmware cripples the machine to boot with an older OS.
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[Warren] “Apple firmware cripples the machine”
What? That makes no sense what so ever.
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[JeremyG] “What? That makes no sense what so ever. “
This has happened all along with Apple. Read the specs before you buy.
Warren
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Dude, I have been doing this for a little while now. Since OS8. I don’t know much, but I have never heard of what you are throwing out into the ethos, unless you are trying to install OS8 on a MacPro I have never heard or seen Apple cripple firmware for their modern computers. If you want to install Leopard on your Quadra 605, you might be out of luck, but for now it supports PowerPC G4 and G5 architecture as well as Intel architecture. I am one to entertain the notion of conspiracy theories, but come on man, what are you talking about?
https://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
Jeremy
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