Joel wrote:
>Since my new, one week old iMac did not come with Jaguar I was able to >get apple to send me the disk for free..what should I know prior to >installing.I have 10.1.5. Will I lose anything? Will the mail program be >affected? > > Hi, Joel; my husband and I just got our new (refurbished) iBook yesterday. It also came with 10.1.5 installed, but had the free Jaguar update included. We played around with it for several hours, including setting up Mail and many preferences, before we decided to install Jaguar. The first thing you should be prepared for is, it takes quite a while to do the installation. A couple of times we even thought it had crashed, because it didn't seem to be doing anything. The whole installation took about 2 hours (our iBook runs at 700 mhz); the first install disk took about 3/4 of that time. Seems like Jaguar has to read every file on the drive and update everything, in addition to installing all the extra bells and whistles. So maybe the more you have on your drive to begin with, the longer it will take. The Mail program was affected - nothing adverse, just the "extras" installed that Jaguar has, particularly the Junk mail feature. You're gonna love it! We are unfortunate in that most of our applications are old, so we won't be able to do everything using Jaguar until we can afford the X versions, but we can do enough to know that we were scared of Jaguar for absolutey no reason! It's just great! I can hardly wait until all my apps are compatible with Jaguar! Good luck. -- ******************** Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. ******************** Carolyn Harvey -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:imac-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:imac-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:imac-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
