Six months ago I purchased my first mac, and love it dearly and completely. I want to upgrade to Leopard but I have a question. Are all my App's going to stop working when I update to Leopard? I have a ton of freeware apps (Mac freeware is seriously incredible) and I don't know that I could handle losing all that functionality for Leopard right off the bat.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
No, they won't. The few exceptions are ones that depend on unpublished APIs (or published APIs that are changing, but there are few of those). Common examples are Mail.app extensions.
However, if you want to be really sure, just wait a few days after the release and keep an eye on some mac forums (macnn, macworld, the Ars Mach Ach, etc). People will post about applications that break, and you can be reasonably confident any applications not mentioned as problematic within the first week after release are going to be fine.
edit: in several major upgrades of OS X, I don't recall the last time many things broke, and everything I've ever had break (maybe three or four apps) had an upgrade available that worked fine.
Also, check the sites of vendors. Many of them have had access to developer builds, and have been tweaking their app to work across both platforms or creating a new version for the new platform.
Posted by Lanfear (Member # 7776) on :
Awesome. Thank you so much.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
My current Tiger OS began life in about 2001 as OS X 10.0 (maybe 10.1, it's a while ago now).
When I moved to Melbourne, I shipped just the HD with me from my work machine and thereby changed from an early single processor G4 to an early dual processor G4.
Since then, it's been cloned and swapped into various G4s and G5s, been overwritten successively by 10.2 - 10.4 and never really suffered for it.
I thin with lepoard, it may be about time, after nearly seven years, to start with a fresh operating system and build it up from scratch.