Comments on: Are You Prepared To Install Leopard?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:55:01 +0000

WOW! ADC baby. Client AND server. Woot!

/Only thing missing is the shiny box (oh well, I guess you can’t please all the people all the time )

By: gwhiz

gwhiz — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:27:04 +0000

Mark – A good counter and, of course, you’re right… Still, if Time Machine is hogging the volume and you’re trying to work on a Photoshop file you sure don’t want it set up to act as a cache volume for Photoshop, etc. Of a sudden lots of important stuff slows unnecessarily and avoidably. Just my $.02 for the day.

As for the ADC… if Apple holds true to what they did with Panther and Tiger… we’ll receive a complimentary GM of Leopard CLIENT about 4-6 weeks after launch. Most definitely NOT same day and don’t expect Server to come in the mail. It won’t (unless Apple’s being unusually generous). So, when I bought this last round of XServes… I bought the Server Maintenance Program. Major OSX Releases (client and server) will come in the mail for the next couple years. Money well spent.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:18:58 +0000

Good advice, although it’s worth mentioning that your backup drive needn’t necessarily be dedicated solely to Time Machine. You’re not prompted to erase it beforehand, so there’s nothing to stop you from keeping other stuff on there – temporary gubbins which doesn’t need backed up.

BTW, this is my first year as a paying ADC Select member so have you any idea roughly how long you usually have to wait for the GM to pop up online after release? Given this year’s WWDC shenanigans, I’m assuming it won’t happen on the same day.