Okay, so I just upgraded my Mac PowerBook G4 to Leopard. It's very cool in many ways. My favorite upgrades are in Mail. "Data detectors" are really awesome. Mail automatically detects dates, addresses, phone numbers, etc and with a couple of clicks you can add people to your Address Book and dates to iCal.
However, I have some very annoying problems. Anyone who cares to chime in, I could use some help with these things (and yes, I downloaded the most recent patch, so I'm running 10.5.1).
1. My computer no longer detects my external hard drive.
2. I had to reinstall all my printers and now the print options are different on my copy machine/printer at work.
3. Mail is having a real hard time with SMTP servers. At work I can barely send email. Every email has a problem and after trying several times a few of them will sometimes go through. I don't have the same problem at home. I haven't changed any of the settings.
4. iCal is running REALLY SLOW. When I try to do anything I get the dreaded pinwheel. It sometimes takes 15-20 seconds between every action.
5. On top of everything else, I have less than 1 GB left on my 80 GB hard drive. Any ideas how to reduce the stuff on my hard drive. I've figured out the easy stuff, like moving data files to an external drive, but it makes a minimal impact. There's got to be something else eating up all my space.
6. And while I'm at it, does anyone else notice that Firefox totally consumes the CPU. Does that happen with other browsers?
Bottom line, my machine is completely maxed out. I've got to free up some resources. I'm already running the max memory (2 GB) so there's not a lot more upgrading I can do.
Your most pressing issue is your freespace. Modern operating systems need at least ten percent of the system drive free to run properly. You might want to try moving music, photos, and videos to an external drive. I bought a 160gb western digital USB powered drive for this purpose. I've heard many people having problems with leopard if they didn't do an "archive and install" which I think amounts to backing up data doing a clean format and install and then restoring backups onto your fresh system.
If you'd like I can help take a look though your system sometime.
Good luck!
Posted by: alburn | November 24, 2007 at 12:36 AM
Get a Macbook Pro!
Posted by: Jeff Gang | November 26, 2007 at 10:33 PM
That's easy for you to say! :)
Posted by: Ryan Bell | November 27, 2007 at 07:44 AM