How should I go About switching to Jaguar?
I have
a 450Mhz G4
with 768Mb of RAM
and the ATY Rage 128Pro Video card which came with it. I'm interested in Music, MIDI & Audio and plan to buy Cubase SX when it is available for Mac.
Is it worth me buying Jaguar yet? And is my Video card compatible with Quartz Extreme?
I have only been running Mac OS 10.1.5 for a month or so and before that I was running Mac OS 9.1 and did a completely clean install of Mac OS 10.1.5. So what would be the best way for me to switch to the next OS? Upgrade, or another clean install? What is an archive install and how effective is this?
Andrew
a 450Mhz G4
with 768Mb of RAM
and the ATY Rage 128Pro Video card which came with it. I'm interested in Music, MIDI & Audio and plan to buy Cubase SX when it is available for Mac.
Is it worth me buying Jaguar yet? And is my Video card compatible with Quartz Extreme?
I have only been running Mac OS 10.1.5 for a month or so and before that I was running Mac OS 9.1 and did a completely clean install of Mac OS 10.1.5. So what would be the best way for me to switch to the next OS? Upgrade, or another clean install? What is an archive install and how effective is this?
Andrew
Comments
I'd say go for it. If you're interested in music, then 10.2 is a must. From what I've heard, 10.2 includes several improvements to CoreAudio, but I'm no expert in that area so I couldn't explain it.
The best installation option is the Archive option. That installs a clean version of your system and moves your old files into another folder. This is much like to the Clean Install option except that everything isn't erased. In theory, the Upgrade option should work fine, but several people have reported problems or slow-downs by choosing Upgrade instead on Archive or Clean.
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The best installation option is the Archive option.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Have to disagree. The best install option is to bite the bullet, add another hard drive and put 10.2 on it. That's what I did and I'm not seeing any of the problems others are reporting. It takes a bit more work to transfer stuff, but I managed in a couple of days. Using two hard drives is worth it for backups alone. If a drive goes, no big deal.
<strong>The best install option is to bite the bullet, add another hard drive and put 10.2 on it.</strong><hr></blockquote>Uh, okay. I suppose I should have said this is the best option without having to buy another hard drive or back up everything you have onto forty or fifty or more CDs. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Really, the Archive option is completely safe and will work just as well as a Clean install in nearly all cases. I would only recommend a Clean install to someone who doesn't have many files to backup or to someone that is already planning on reformatting the drive.