Im holding of 10.5 until Adobe officially supports after-effects - As i understand it the CS3 suite will run ok - there are bugs etc but it runs. The main problems seem to be with the video programmes - premier and after effects etc...

But its a bugger, i have my copy of leopard sat here and i just can't stick it on the comp til i know everything will work ok!!

I never have had issues with CS3 on Leopard that I would associate to OS related instability. I've found Time Machine to be an invaluable tool for piece of mind while carrying my laptop on me on campus. I mean, if I lost it, I would lose all my work and all my school notes; so, I feel better having a installable backup. If the thing died, or was dropped, or fell into some sort of acid filled river, it wouldn't be quite as disappointing with a backup.

The other new feature I use most is Spaces. I love it, and it makes it easy to hide the fact I'm on IM when the prof is pacing around. It's also great for keeping all the IMs in one place regardless and other work, even full-screen work environments, contained and out of the way.

No i use Final Cut Pro (never used premier and don't to ever to be honest!!) the concern is with AfterEffects. We've done some testing on it and it does seem pretty stable, there are no major common  bugs that we've come up against.

... Not long before Adobe fix's these all being well though!

i have done the full switch to leopard, and i can say it is a love hate relationship, i personally use alot of bit torrents and there is a kernal panic that hits everytime when i have to many connections coming in and out. It also happens when im streaming content from the web, it has to do with the airport, so i would suggest waiting till 10.5.2 personally, i mean really whats the rush, besides a couple cool features but really it doesnt make things faster, and if everything is running fine for you in tiger just wait, no harm no foul.


(yes i have done a clean install, 2x now actually same thing, and both off different leopard disks from the office)

@hooks: you are right: never break a running system. But if you get a new Mac you also get Leopard, so its good to know what problems can you expect.

Tiger also had lots of troubles until 10.4.2. So its just a question of time until most software will be updated and bugs removed.

I upgraded to Leopard from the very first day it was available in Denmark.

I got all my CS-stuff and serious photo-editing-DTP files stored on my old G4, and kept that machine running in the previous OSX. So I wouldnt know what Leopard does to all that.

However I got some other comments on Leopard:

First of all :
My experience has always been : Loading Mac OSX is way much faster than loading Windows on a PC.
With Leopard - due to all its new features i guess - loading Mac OSX has now become slooooow
(And my comp is supposed to be fairly OK ; Macpro with 4 x 3,0 ghz and 4 gb Ram).

Next:
_The feature they call "Time Machine" doesnt work, unless your external drive is formatted into Mac Leopard Format. If you format your external drive ( in my case, its a so-called "NAS" a one-terrabyte machine, that was supposed to be some kind of a media server for all my other macs), into MacOSX, you will miss a lot of the original features of a NAS.
So - I thought I should have a kind of an external hard-drive, that could back-up my macv with Time-machine, and also being used for storage of films, old software, and so on.
But thats not possible. Its a choice. So far this choice for me has been a decision NOT to run time-machine, and not to format the NAS into Mac-OSX.

Using Leopard has one big advantage though. When I use my Mac in Windows mode ( from boot-camp),
the drivers and stuff that are being loaded/downloaded/installed, are way much better than the Boot-camp stuff from the former OSX.
In other words: My Mac is running smoother than ever, when I am in PC-mode.

And one great advantage : Networking a Leopard Mac with Macs on older OSX is absolutely no prob. I was quite curious about that, but they seem to work beautifully together. Networking, sharing and all that = no prob.

Best regards
Flies