Leopard on our laptop
12/02/07
Well, Dad's been busy recently with a new
strategy for the G4. He ordered a new graphics card
with 128 mb of video RAM and a 2nd hard
drive...
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Well, Dad's been busy recently with a new strategy for the G4. He ordered a new graphics card with 128 mb of video RAM and a 2nd hard drive. After installing the hardware he installed Leopard on the upgraded system and now he's purring again, with two of my brother cats (Tiger & Leopard) on the same machine.
I mentioned last time that I'd share the rest of our Leopard saga. After the initial G4 upgrade, Dad decided to "Go For It" and Update our MacBook Pro Core Duo. He would have liked to do an Archive & Install, but the old MBP was a "...bit short on disk space". I tried to warn him, but sometimes he just won't listen.
But I need to give you a little background on this latest incarnation of the family laptop. I guess the best way to describe it is sort of a "litter-box of software" as a result of upgrading several versions of Mac OS X. The laptops have been good to us, but we just seem to go from one version to the next without cleaning it out and freshening it up before the next update. So although Leopard's up and running it's a little sluggish and we get some strange things happening from time to time.
So the plan is to get a good clone, once SuperDuper (our main backup tool) releases a Leopard compatible version. With that in hand, we'll be reformatting the disk and reinstalling Leopard. This may be seem pretty severe, but this "litter-box" is full and just needs a good cleaning.
Talk to you soon... CatNamedMac
Well, Dad's been busy recently with a new strategy for the G4. He ordered a new graphics card with 128 mb of video RAM and a 2nd hard drive. After installing the hardware he installed Leopard on the upgraded system and now he's purring again, with two of my brother cats (Tiger & Leopard) on the same machine.
I mentioned last time that I'd share the rest of our Leopard saga. After the initial G4 upgrade, Dad decided to "Go For It" and Update our MacBook Pro Core Duo. He would have liked to do an Archive & Install, but the old MBP was a "...bit short on disk space". I tried to warn him, but sometimes he just won't listen.
But I need to give you a little background on this latest incarnation of the family laptop. I guess the best way to describe it is sort of a "litter-box of software" as a result of upgrading several versions of Mac OS X. The laptops have been good to us, but we just seem to go from one version to the next without cleaning it out and freshening it up before the next update. So although Leopard's up and running it's a little sluggish and we get some strange things happening from time to time.
So the plan is to get a good clone, once SuperDuper (our main backup tool) releases a Leopard compatible version. With that in hand, we'll be reformatting the disk and reinstalling Leopard. This may be seem pretty severe, but this "litter-box" is full and just needs a good cleaning.
Talk to you soon... CatNamedMac