Running with the Leopards...

I finally decided to upgrade my computer. It was the least I could do. In it's brilliant Unix-based way, my Mac mini had decided that it was only going to let me overwrite about half of my preferences folder. I could have spent the hours and hours relearning Unix commands, messing around in Terminal and then, maybe, reinstalling Tiger.

So I decided to make the leap to Leopard. And, you know, I'm glad I did.

My system is much more stable now——almost shockingly so. Unsurprisingly, my three year old G4 Mac mini runs in to a bit of slow down every now and again. But with Leopard, it's much, much less. The best example, when I used to try to stream Lost online, it would pause every few seconds. Now, there might be a pause every few minutes, but not even close to thee unwatchable past. Leopard makes a shared 32 Megs of video RAM space enough. (Although I still look forward to a future where I can watch the HD stream on my new iMac.)

Also, Time Machine has simplified my OCD need to backup everything. And the simplified GUI has made my less than ideal monitor (a meager 1280 x 768) feel much more adequate.

But it isn't all perfect. I also upgraded my Dad's MacBook computer. Everything went off without a hitch, including updating his Boot Camp XP. Except one thing. Even though Apple continuously advertises that it's better about this than Microsoft:

OS X Leopard doesn't have driver support for his printer.