New Computer = Leopard. Best case scenario?

[Warren Eig]

[JeremyG] “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
“

First, take a deep breath.

Next, I’ve bought systems from Apple that you can only install the system that came on it or better. You cannot go backwards. If you’ve been doing this for a while you know that. Sure you can install a new system on an older model. I have Tiger on my PISMO powerbook.

But check with Apple before buying a System pre-installed with Leopard. You may not be able to install Tiger. I never said you couldn’t I said make sure that haven’t crippled that ability.

Warren

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Warren] “Next, I’ve bought systems from Apple that you can only install the system that came on it or better.”

Like what?

[Jeff Carpenter]

Sorry, Jeremy, he’s right. If a machine comes with a particular OS, you can’t put an older OS on that machine.

Now, I’ve never TRIED it, it might work, but Apple won’t support it if something doesn’t work right. That’s the only thing I can say for certain…they won’t support it. Dunno if it’s acutally “crippled” or not.

At any rate, I wouldn’t suggest anyone running Final Cut do something that Apple won’t support. That’s just asking for trouble.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Jeff Carpenter] “Sorry, Jeremy, he’s right.”

Please prove it to me, please. This is for my own education, if not everyone else’s.

[Warren Eig]

[JeremyG] “Like what?”

My Dual G4 1.4.2 GHz.

Warren

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[Jeremy Garchow]

And what happened?

[Jeff Carpenter]

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25497

[Zak Mussig]

Paul,

I think you will probably be just fine running your FCS2 system on Leopard. From my experience there is, as you suggest, a right way to install. Your new system will be fine out of the box so long as you don’t use the Apple migration assistant to move users and such over from another Mac.

I installed Leopard 3 times before I got a working FCS2 system. Erase and install with a migration killed it, even w/o bringing over apps.

Just run all system updates, install FSC2, and then run all of it’s updates and you’ll be just fine. It’s worth pointing out that I only use Photoshop and Illustrator and no Adobe video apps (which don’t currently work on Leopard. Also, I went through all of these installs with my working Tiger system cloned onto a second drive in my Mac Pro as Jeremy suggested to that I could be working on a stable system with just a reboot.

Hope that helps,
Zak

[Jeremy Garchow]

Awesome. Thanks, Jeff.

Jeremy

[Aaron Zander]

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.

why a 1 tb, who the hell needs 500 gigs of room for a app drive? You’d be fine partitioning a 250 gig drive….just keep footage elsewhere.

also you can select from system prefs to boot from certain drives, if like me, you use a keyboard that is say wireless.

Also, computers just being released SHOULD be fine, and if they aren’t you can try adn get install disks from a friend with a similar system, partition your drive and install Like this, that should combat most problems instead of just installing tiger.