Thank you Ted. Leopard was unusable on my 500 MHZ DP G$ "Gigabit". There were install problems, network probs...every problem. I don't know what possesses me to do these things, but I decided to do a nuke n pave on a perfect Tiger 10.4.11. I just needed to try the Leopard thing yet again.
Before I did it, I realized I never did a Firmware Update on it to my knowledge, and I found one. Installed in OS 9.2.2. Bravo! I did the Open Firmware commands, and it all went smoothly. Leopard installed slowly but surely, I did all the updates on the night of 10.5.5 (TEDIOUS when u have iLife, iWork, etc etc...). Wasn't thrilled with my stuff not working, especially my 2nd G4! Here's a list of what got murdered (USB 1.1 Bluetooth Adapter behind Cinema Disp. for my wireless kb+mouse and Contour METAL headset...great for A or A/V iChatting for everyone that uses isight without a bluetooth headset), Griffin PowerMate, Ultra SCSI-2 Card for my scanner, my high quality euro spec. Epson scanner, my beat-it-daily USB HP PSC4480 all-in-one, my iSub pissed me off the most not working, for those that haven't heard the USB Cube Speakers and USB iSub working in harmony together, lemme tell you -- it sounds better than the SoundSticks, esp. the new ones with the cheap minijack...shameful. The setup is more clear through USB than most optical-based systems i've heard, and was NEVER supported by Apple until 10.2.8...I REMEMBER it lol...) with the performance, but I was noticing the more I used it and fresh-installed apps, it got quicker, like EVERYTHING's Cached. Is that a fact BTW? Anyways, I went to bed a bit unsettled about the whole thing. I woke up and it told me it was ready to "Finish" the install (That auto. $hit is the 1st thing I turn off) OS 10.5.6. I agreed and it installed. After the install, and a second restart b/c there was an app I forgot, then I realized the speakers were working and the PowerMate was pulsing. Good sign. Looked around the Finder; it was more responsive than my nuked n paved MBP15". Both processors were working. The system i'm on is FASTER THAN the MBP. I have TONS of background activity going on (LimeWire, Finder tasks, iTunes, Activity Monitor which can be a pig, Mail, 3 iChats, AOL Desktop, Carbon Copy Cloner...thx again ;-). The CPU is MAXXED out, but I keep adding things and it's coping beautifully. Like me just turning on the iTunes Visualizer (Pretty but I wish they just refined the old one where you never knew what u were gonna get...)...slow, gritty, but I turned it right off w/o any spinning balls. On my 2 Intel Macs, if you do mor than Safari, Finder, and Citrix in a Java VM, and the spinning ball shows up; I walk away now. I've tried everything on those (yuk*cough...AHEmmmm) APPLE x86 boxes (I never thought i'd type that, and even those of you that like the Intel machines, you never did, either ;-) I think there was a *BIG* PPC layer change; a MONSTER optimization; a good lil developer at Apple that wanted to give G4/G5 users 2 final, stable, sprightly releases of OS X before they drop all support...and i'm glad. The Intel machines will just have to suffer till 10.6 Snow Leopard for a decent release. ...Apple should have stayed on the PPC platform, even if we had slow development at times. Now my intel Macs feel like x86 junk. BTW my config is: Dual original G4s 2GB RAM (PC133 - IT IS FASTER IN PRACTICE EVEN THOUGH ITS A 100 BUS; MAYBE THE DP THING?) ATI RADEON 9000 Pro 23" Apple Cinema HD Display, 17" Studio "Monitor" for Activity, LimeWire, iChat buddies, Main mail window. Pro keyboard Pro mouse (FOR REAL NOW) USB Bluetooth SCSI-2 USB2.0 x 5 MacAlly USB2 webcam with audio and a perfect match for the top of the Cinema HD G4 Cube USB Speakers and USB iSub Griffin PowerMate Sony Vertical DVD+-RW LightScribe USB2 drive Iomega 1 TB Prestige vertical mount Hard Drive Internal 80GB ATA/100 Drive Zip100 int. Drive (works in Leopard; didn't in Tiger Internal DVD RAM Burner...again, comes in handy sometimes 56k Modem (Use it for sending/receiving faxes) AP Card - Wireless, but I share from my GigEnet port to my TAM. etc. etc. etc. WHY does this feel like Apple's gonna die...the feeling from when BE came out and Copland was canceleed and then Rhapsody, a strategy that made no sense, was put in place...LORD HELP US! ____________________________________________________ Sent from Joey's iPhone 3G. Lose Micro$hit; Go Apple! On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Ted Treen wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: >> Okay, 10.5.6 finally made my system usable with Leopard (NO Glitches >> anywhere and it's heavily upgraded and mix 'n matched). >> >> I have an identical HDD to the one i'm booting from and want to keep >> perfect, or go back to this very day if there's any "issues" later >> on. >> How can I "Clone" the drive, down to its very last label color pref. >> 47 layers down into the Terminal...ya'll know what I mean. Thanks a >> TON! >> >> Joey. >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> Sent from Joey's iPhone 3G. Lose Micro$hit; Go Apple! >> > Use 'Carbon Copy Cloner' or 'SuperDuper!' > > Ted > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. 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