Vienna, Maya...Is it safe to go to MAC OS 10.4.8?...

[svonkampen]

Hi Maya,

..Is it safe to go to MAC OS 10.4.8 ?...

OS is availbale for both Intel AND G5....

what's the scoop?

thanx,

SvK

[Maya]

Hi Steven,

I upgraded to 10.4.8 yesterday (PPC G5) and didn´t experience any irregularities so far, but I have to admit I don´t trust it yet.

We will run some more tests tomorrow on PPC, as well as on Intel based Mac. I´ll let you know our results ASAP.

Best,

*Vienna*-Maya

[jbm]

I've running it on PPC and Intel all day with no troubles.

J.

[svonkampen]

Thanx guys [;)]

SvK

[stevesong]

I've been running for a couple of days on my G5 - - no problems, so far, with Logic or VI. A couple of oddities, however. I ran Disk Utility to check and/or repair the startup disk before installing 10.4.8. I also repaired permissions before and after installing. I then ran Disk Utility after installing 10.4.8 and got error messages to the effect that Disk Utility was unable to fix the problems. I then ran DiskWarrior which found and corrected errors regarding volume information and item count on the startup disk. Afterwards, Disk Utility pronounced the disk healthy.

Prior to any of this, I made a complete backup -- using SuperDuper to clone the startup drive - - just to be safe. (With a cloned drive made by Super Duper, the only thing that differs from the original startup drive are certain software authorizations - - especially those from NI - - that use ID numbers specific to a particular system on a particular startup disk, but it only takes a few minutes to deauthorize the original disk and reauthorize the clone - - so you can go back to work right away.)

[cm]

just to mention: it is highly recommended to check (and if needed repair) permissions as well as backup the system drive before running this upgrade. a significant number of kernel-panics after the upgrade are reported.
my experience is that the best method of backup is to start from the OS X DVD, use the disk utility from there and create an image of the system volume on a second drive - this makes sure you can go back without too much effort to a working system in worst case.
christian

[JWL]

@cm said:

just to mention: it is highly recommended to check (and if needed repair) permissions as well as backup the system drive before running this upgrade. a significant number of kernel-panics after the upgrade are reported.
my experience is that the best method of backup is to start from the OS X DVD, use the disk utility from there and create an image of the system volume on a second drive - this makes sure you can go back without too much effort to a working system in worst case.
christian

Brilliant and wise advice-- indispensable!

[JWL]

Hey-- if anyone with a Quad PPC goes to 10.4.8, I'd like to know if there are any specific observations regarding Apple's claim to have fixed performance issues on the Quad PPC.

Thanks.

[oliverheuss]

Hi JWL,

on my Quad PPC 10.4.8 works fine with Logic´s latest Update. No Probs so far, no performance improvement noticed either, i´m still curious. Anyone else?

Best Oliver

[JWL]

@oliverheuss said:

no performance improvement noticed either

Oliver-- thanks for that important information. It's just as important that you are not experiencing any problems either.

I'm curious because I'm not certain if my next computer will be a Quad PPC or a Mac-Intel.

A PC is not out of the question either.