The Upgrade Carrot

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Hmmm an interesting debate could be had here, onthe one hand you have the cleaning up of many lines of code, and a more efficient way of talking to the hardware, which suggests speed improvements, on the other; greater specs needed to run leopard in comparison to tiger… If you’re on an intel mac, upgrade to snow leopard! It’s fast, uses the hardware more efficiently than any other OS and is cheap… Rumour has it you can upgrade directly from tiger to snow leopard, it’s just that it’s not in the Apple licensing agreement to do so….

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Production Assistant, Grace Productions
Degree; TV Production

[Doug Beal]

If your machine is doing what you want it to do examine your reasons for wanting to upgrade
Be aware you’ll need to update a bunch of software and maybe drivers, maybe firmware

your current boot drive & start with a fresh formatted drive and build your system from the OS boot disk. I’d be ready to upgrade FCP ’cause 5.1.4 will need specific QT which will likely be older than what you’ll install with the updated OS. Once you’ve committed to upgraded FCP get everything up to date before FCP is installed. then update all that., it’ll likely take several software updates to get it all.
remember to repair permissions along the way.
Worst case you have your old drive where everything was working and boot from that. make a note of any firmware updates to the mac or cards in case you have to back down, guaranteed you won’t remember if you don’t write it down by the time the process is done

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Chris Tompkins]

Ya, New FCP is the reason for upgrading.
I have the newest one on a MacBook Pro.
I want it on the Desktop.
My concern is that the Intel mac of a few years ago will run SLOWER on the Newer OS.
Has anyone upgraded an older Mac with OS 10.6 lately?

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta