computerworld.com — A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up, showing only an interminable -- and very Windows-like -- "blue screen of death."
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logandurandOct 29, 2007
Most, if not all of the Mac users I meet claim that their computers never crash. Which, in my experience, is total BS. Macs crash on me all too often.
diggingawayOct 29, 2007
Mac users seem to be unable to figure out a problem. I'm surprised you even get them powered on without visiting the nearest Apple Store each time.
lespaulplayaDec 3, 2007
I'm not a apple genius in any way or form what so ever but take this into consideration. What if the leopard installers had an imac with more than 1 user and bought the leopard single user. this may be the cause but like i said, im on my first mac and still learning things.
jonhoffmMar 16, 2008
I know that it is absolutely pointless to comment on this further but I have to get this off of my chest -During Apple's "switch" campaign, there was a commercial where a woman bragged that her dad had received a digital camera for Christmas and had trouble getting the photos onto his Windows PC - She whipped out her Powerbook and they were all looking at the pictures within a minute in iphoto.Flash to 2008 and me with my Canon Powershot G9 - shot photos in RAW format. Guess what - no new Canon RAW support in iphoto - cannot get the photos off of the camera. Oh but wait, RAW support is at the operating system-level so after Leopard 10.5.2, new Canon RAW is added. Upgraded to Leopard and loaded 10.5.2. Opps, guess what - you have to be running the latest version of iphoto to get that to work - I thought that RAW support was at the OS-level? Oh well, its Apple, I am sure it will work. OK - upgraded to ilife 08 (Apple has me for $210 now - Leopard $130 + ilife 08 $80). Loaded the upgrades to that. Now - my Mac is stuck at the wonderful Mac version of the BSOD. Spent a few hours at the command line and running utilities. No joy.Now I am faced with wiping the disk, reloading the entire OS and apps just to get my f**king RAW images off of a Canon Powershot. Or taking it to an Apple genius and having them say "Oh, you are using a PowerPC mac, well, support for this or that is only for Intel Macs."The next time I see a Mac ad about how great and simple their products are, I think I may throw up.Great job Apple. Great job indeed.