New Computer = Leopard. Best case scenario?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[A.Zander] ” who the hell needs 500 gigs of room for a app drive?”

I always run out of space. I wish I could have 1TB in MBP. I have a 250 and it’s a constant shuffle of data to keep it clean. Considering that FCS2 alone is about 30 Gigs worth of stuff (if you choose to install it all) you run out of 250 Gigs fast. Add to that CS3, media and other stuff, 250 Gigs seems like it should be the size of a jump drive.

Jeremy

[Michael Bloodgood]

I would say the real issue here isn’t Leopard’s ability to work with FCS 2 but Leopard’s ability to work with third party software and hardware. FCS 2 works fine with Leopard. My digidesign stuff does not which is why that system will be on Tiger for a few more months.

[Aaron Zander]

[JeremyG] “I always run out of space. I wish I could have 1TB in MBP. I have a 250 and it’s a constant shuffle of data to keep it clean. Considering that FCS2 alone is about 30 Gigs worth of stuff (if you choose to install it all) you run out of 250 Gigs fast. Add to that CS3, media and other stuff, 250 Gigs seems like it should be the size of a jump drive.

Jeremy “

ok, have you ever looked at all the stuff you are installing?

Do you need pal dvd sp templates? how about hd templates? Do you really need the 12+ gigs from live type? how about all the sound fx and loops in soundtrack, or all the templates in motion? my fcs2 install has about ~10 gigs max on it…max

also, I ran all my work through a 12″ power book (typing on it now actually) with a 75 gig hdd…250 gigs would be a dream, if it werent like 4600 rpm…

[Ben Holmes]

Paul

FWIW, I have done a ‘dirty’ install of Leopard on my MPB with FCS2 already installed. We are yet to upgrade any of our work systems, I did this just for kicks on my own computer.

I also did it mid project (although all media and projects were on an external drive) and then carried on with the project.

So far – nothing. No problems. All my many plug-ins seem fine, and it’s all as stable as it was before. Now, I could just be lucky, but remember this is Apple software running on an OS Apple devs have been using for nearly a year. It SHOULD be stable. As others have said, third party apps may not be so good (although only NeoOffice has required an upgrade for me so far) but Apple apps? Pro apps? Let’s hope it’s all generally ok, or the PR would hurt Apple badly.

On a new machine with a clean Leopard install, you ought to have few problems, otherwise there would be a flood of complaints on the web and swift action from El Jobso to fix it…

Ben

[Jeremy Garchow]

[A.Zander] “ok, have you ever looked at all the stuff you are installing?
“

Yes, I have none of that installed on my MBP. I use my MBP for some editing and when client review DVDs start adding up, iTunes, everything, it all adds up.

Hitachi has 5400RPM 250 Gig drives FWIW.

[Aaron Zander]

[JeremyG] “Hitachi has 5400RPM 250 Gig drives FWIW. “

ok, now i’m jealous…

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[JeremyG] “They might. I am sure there’s a fire sale of Tiger at some stores somewhere. “

Now that definitely will not work. The versions of tiger that were sold in the box were not universal, they will only work on a PPC machine. All intel came with Tiger so there was no reason to make the box version of Tiger universal.

Leopard is the FIRST universal OS that apple has released. You can actually boot both a PPC and a Intel from the same install of the OS, you could not do that with Tiger.

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

Like what? “

Well the new MacBooks that were just barley released for example, the leopard disks that come with them are a newer build of the OS Leopard. Same version, but newer build that will work with those machines. You cant even use the box version of Leopard to do an install on the new revision of the MacBook.

The box version is only built to be compatible with computers released before the box version was. Any computes released after that box version may have a newer build specifically for that machine.

I hope this helps it all make sense.

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Oh I forgot to mention, that what makes each build different is support for the newer hardware that has been put into the newer model computers.

Drivers for the new hardware etc.