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Giving up on Leopard and “Upgrading” back to Tiger.

By Athar Khan

For a company that uses outdated CRT monitors with BSOD screens as their PC icons, and finds endless joy in bashing Vista in every commercial, Apple has released an unbelievably buggy operating system in Leopard. The very first day I used it, Leopard’s Finder Bug caused me to lose about 20 GB of music and school lectures. Then, it couldn’t seem to keep an NFS share mounted for more than 10 seconds. When I brought the first issue up to a some friends, their response was “I never move data. I always copy it and then compare it before deleting.” Really? THATS how much latitude we are giving Apple now? This is an operating system people — not a cheap plastic toy from a dollar store. One friend suggested updating firmware. Another suggested wiping out Tiger completely and reinstalling Leopard from scratch. Even after those two steps, Leopard continued to crash at least once a day. When it worked, it would hang on the most minor of file manipulation operations. I don’t think I have ever seen the psychedelic wheel this much in my life. So, today, I wiped out my computer and went back to Tiger. That was the OS that convinced me to move to the Mac platform anyway. It still works just fine for me. So, as Apple phrased it in this commercial, I have “upgraded to an older, more familiar experience.” Talk about “early adopters facing some minor challenges.” From now on, just like we all do with Microsoft, I am going to wait for Leopard Service Pack 2 before I try it out again. 

Full post as published by Atharkhan on November 23, 2007 (boomark / email).