Mac OS X never crashed my G4 PowerBook - until I upgraded to Leopard.

When it arrived, Mac OS X was a shimmering beacon for hope for anyone who used earlier Apple System OS's like me. But now, it seems like a distant dream.

After my rant about Vista-haters last week, I went about the process of installing Leopard (OS X 10.5). And what a disaster it was. I got the expected BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) that many other users had experienced. So I reset the machine. OS X started up. Then I waited. And I waited. Eventually the desktop appeared (though with the older, Tiger-style background). And that was it.

I could start an app - for example Safari - and connect to the net. And with Safari I could browse the web. But it seems the Finder was in a state of perma-crash.

So now I can't even browse my documents. Absolute rubbish. OK, so I probably should have done a clean install rather than an upgrade (which I will now do), but it should still have actually worked, even if my Mac slowed to a crawl (my processor is double the required speed to run OS X).

So I shall reinstall and re-report. Perhaps I should have stuck with Tiger. Still, at least this didn't happen to me.

Dan Grabham Home