I am running a G5 2.5 dual processor 4G ram, OSX.4.11 and everything +CS4 & LR2 runs very nicely. (It’s the woeful video card (128MB) that’s the biggest hang up at the moment) I have an opportunity to install Leopard and I wonder if anyone can address the wisdom of such an idea? Thanks !
I’d suggest adding another internal hard drive, if you have the room, and installing a Leopard system on that. Keep your 10.4.11 primary boot drive for your current workload but start learning Leopard. In my experience it is a great operating system and the advances over 10.4 are significant. As of this point most of the problems running Adobe products with Leopard and been resolved in CS4 if that is a consideration.
After experiencing all Apple’s OSs up to 10.4.11 my experience is that it is best not to move to a next version until • a really good reason exists and • reports from early adopters indicate that nothing is your workflow will likely be broken.
Only when both of those criteria are met should one upgrade. When they are met then it makes sense to • backup a bootable version of the older OS and • fully commit to the new OS, jump in with both feet.
IMO part-time learning of a new OS is inefficient. Learning a new OS is like learning a language, best done by full immersion.
No really good reason seems to exist for you to move to OS 10.5.x. Yet cost and downside risk do exist if you were to go to 10.5.x. And 10.4.11 is a good solid OS…
If you intend to print from PSCS4 I would not touch Leopard. Reportably 10.4.11 does not have the bug that forces the printer drivers to use Colorsync with no way to turn CM off.
