Nearly 10 shows have gone past since the last poll, so I thought I'd start another. Apple has just released Snow Leopard, and Microsoft is about to release Windows 7, so an operating system question is in order. Fear not, this isn't an Apple v. Mac argument (we all know who wins!).
I'm assuming that most/all AGP listeners have a geeky/tech streak (in a nice way!) and so the question is not "Are you going to upgrade to Snow Leopard / Windows 7?" but "When?".
I went out and bought Snow Leopard the day it came out and installed it that night. Always having been appreciative of Apple's OS, or having been brainwashed by the Apple Marketing Machine, depending on your point of view, it was always going to be the case that I got it on Day 1. In fact I had great pleasure in lording it over those poor suckers who pre-ordered and had to wait for the courier company to get round to delivering it a few days after it was available in the shop!
Anyway, I may have been brainwashed but I'm not totally stupid, so I did a full bootable clone of my hard drive, and then started the hour long upgrade process. Success, it all worked - but then I plugged my iPhone in and it wouldn't connect.
Arghhh.... The interwebz failed to provide a solution, so I reinstalled 10.5.8 from my cloned drive and sulked for a few hours.
Then the next morning Apple released an update which fixed the problem, so I was back on 10.6.0.
There weren't too many reports of Snow Leopard upgrade problems this time around, fewer than the 10.4 to 10.5 upgrade anyway. But I remember thinking when I installed Leopard that next time I would wait until the .1 upgrade came out. After all 10.6.1 came out only 14 days after 10.6.0 was in the shops. It would have been safer to wait...
So, do you relish the challenge of being in the first few to install the new OS? Do you do the sensible thing and wait a week or so until any issues have been ironed out? Or are you constrained by hardware, or a particular piece of software you rely on that isn't yet compatible?
I'm using Windows 7 RTM already. I first tried the beta version then the release candidate and found it good enough to run on my main machine.
I never went to Vista and didn't actually upgrade my Windows 98 machine to XP until after service pack 1 came out. So I usually wait a while before upgrading but in this case have found Windows 7 to be an excellent OS. I am familiar with Vista as we have it on a laptop but I have upgraded that to Win 7 also and it makes hell of a difference.
I dunno, if I had a major product that had to sync with another major product, I think I would test it quite extensively before I released a new OS, but that's just me. Apple really "Microsofted" when they screwed up the iPhone sync. They also screwed up when they didn't include Flash 10 with the OS--they updated it in 10.6.1, but c'mon!
I was going to purchase Snow Leopard, but I don't generally install anything new on the day it comes out, I usually wait for a couple weeks until some of the bugs appear and have to be dealt with.
In this case, Mac OS Snow Leopard has dropped support for the PowerPC product line--All of the redundant programming needed to run programs on the PowerPC have been stripped out of the OS. This is great if you're running all of the newest software, but in the "real world" people usually are not running the newest software. In the "business world," a lot of companies are still 3 or 4 versions behind. This is the case for me--many of my clients are still running Adobe Creative Suite version 1, some more are running CS2, and very few are running CS3. (Hell, some of them are still using QuarkXPress!) Mac Snow Leopard doesn't support CS1 or CS2, it also doesn't support Suitcase Fusion 12.1.7, the font management program I use. So that means I can't afford to upgrade to Snow Leopard until I can get my Clients to upgrade their systems. So at "normal" rates, that'll probably mean about 3 years from now.
Maybe if I was rich I could have a couple of iMacs, one running OS Tiger so I could use my OS9 legacy programs, one running OS Leopard, and one running OS Snow Leopard... but I'm not rich.
I'm also using Windows 7 RTM I have both a 32 and 64 bit install. I tried
the beta and really liked it as it made my netbook (Lenovo S10) fly. I
never even installed vista on any of machines.
I stuck with XP as it worked well enough for what I wanted to do. Only in the past six months did I start to
have issues when I started to tinker with HD video. I found that XP struggled both from a playback
and processing perspective.
Anyway I am really liking Win7 so far no issues and I have managed to get everything
that I need to work on my main 64bit installation.
I'm currently dual booting Leopard 10.5.7 and the Windows 67 RC on my mac. and Vista 64 on my pc. I'll probably look into windows 7 once DX11 cards start appearing. As for 10.6, I won't be going there until I know that Pro Tools and Sibelius both work with no problems.
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