It's done, I finally ran out of excuses for upgrading to Leopard. My basic issue was Parallels Desktop, if I kill it I basically lose my job, so I had to wait for the first Leopard-specific build. Once that build came, it was a matter of finding a hole in my schedule so I could spend a few hours just messing with the laptop.
It took a month.
I was finally able to upgrade the Mac Book Pro yesterday afternoon. It took less than three hours from the moment I started to the point I ran out of things to upgrade. I also upgraded the iMac G5, which I am absolutely convinced that it took less than two hours to do it all. I did not check the times, but it does feel like it was less time.
While talking to Alec Esotérica about it, I came out with a very quick review, which to my surprise covered almost everything:
- Think evolutionary instead of revolutionary.
- Spaces is only good to show off.
- Stacks are handy as fuck.
- The cover flow finder is nice when you are trying to find the right porn.
- Remote desktop client is now built into the finder, that's nice.
- iChat is still useless.
- The dock is now worse: instead of an easy to notice black triangle, active apps have a tiny blue LED underneath the 3D dock surface.
- I like stacks a lot.
- Can't test time machine until the new drive arrives.
- It did not break parallels, for that I am grateful and thrilled.
- Safari is fast as fuck, but it isn't Firefox
That was within an hour of installing it. The changes to the finder take time to get used to, the one that was the easiest was the downloads folder, something I had done by myself less than 3 days ago, so I was already used to the idea that my downloads were no longer landing on the desktop.
I already got Time Machine running, but I won't see it in action until the first backup is done, which at this pace is going to take the rest of the evening.
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