Since I was due for a Leopard upgrade, and the opportunity presented itself for a hardware refresh as well- I've upgraded from my first MBP Pro (2.33GHz core 2 duo, 2GB ram) to this 2.6GHz core 2 duo, 4GB ram). [Yes, its good to have a boss that loves hardware even more than I do. :)] The transition has- thus far- turned me into an ever bigger Apple fan.
When first powering on new Mac, it asks you if you want to transfer data from another Mac. Matthew reminded me of this option before I made the jump, so I borrowed Igor's firewire-to-firewire cable (which apparently is the only supported mode of data transfer) and gave it a shot. Worst case, I'd just blow it all away with another fresh install and I'd be none the worse.
About two hours later, all of my user data and applications were migrated to the new machine. Easiest. Upgrade. EVAR. It looks like just my old box, only running fanshy smanshy Leopard now, and on snappier hardware. Lightroom photos looked brighter than before (I really need to get my displays calibrated...), the Cisco VPN didn't work (but I found a fix on a Sun blog. Nice!), and the annoying "BONG!" startup sound returned, even though I confirmed Startup Sound was still enabled and supposedly muting it (reinstalling the app fixed it. too bad apps can't include version dependencies like Firefox extensions.)
So far so good. I'm leaving the obnoxious Leopard background image in place for now until I had over my old laptop- thats how much they look a like! Time will show if I made the jump to Leopard too soon-- but the OSX upgrade option was a total cakewalk!
UPDATE: It seems Parallels is totally fubared by the upgrade. I'll be curious to see if reinstalling the Parallels app resurrects my XP instance, or that needs to be reinstalled as well. Also, the new MBP and/or Leopard means it takes a significantly longer time for the laptop to suspend when I close it. No idea why, but its kinda annoying.
When first powering on new Mac, it asks you if you want to transfer data from another Mac. Matthew reminded me of this option before I made the jump, so I borrowed Igor's firewire-to-firewire cable (which apparently is the only supported mode of data transfer) and gave it a shot. Worst case, I'd just blow it all away with another fresh install and I'd be none the worse.
About two hours later, all of my user data and applications were migrated to the new machine. Easiest. Upgrade. EVAR. It looks like just my old box, only running fanshy smanshy Leopard now, and on snappier hardware. Lightroom photos looked brighter than before (I really need to get my displays calibrated...), the Cisco VPN didn't work (but I found a fix on a Sun blog. Nice!), and the annoying "BONG!" startup sound returned, even though I confirmed Startup Sound was still enabled and supposedly muting it (reinstalling the app fixed it. too bad apps can't include version dependencies like Firefox extensions.)
So far so good. I'm leaving the obnoxious Leopard background image in place for now until I had over my old laptop- thats how much they look a like! Time will show if I made the jump to Leopard too soon-- but the OSX upgrade option was a total cakewalk!
UPDATE: It seems Parallels is totally fubared by the upgrade. I'll be curious to see if reinstalling the Parallels app resurrects my XP instance, or that needs to be reinstalled as well. Also, the new MBP and/or Leopard means it takes a significantly longer time for the laptop to suspend when I close it. No idea why, but its kinda annoying.
This is where I guess Sun as a company did not make the right decision to come up with a slick OS at the right time. Instead Sun chose to throw JDS as an alternative to windows and now Indiana possibly. 90% of the guys at Sun use Mac and run Parallels in it with windows/solaris/linux. You would say thats not the market Sun wanted to invest in the past. But look at mac sales last quarter, they are soaring. Sun says that they have the best OS on the planet. Agreed, but what value does it add to the shareholder if the company cannot leverage the best OS on the planet. You would say, you might be able to do 90% of the things you do on a mac on a solaris host as well. But the above mentioned ease of things and the aesthetics is where Sun fell short of everytime they ventured into the desktop world. It appears that Sun as a company shelved those plans because the desktop arena probably has enough competition with mac slicing M$ share every quarter. Sorry for my rant but retrospecting on the past few years Apple delivered the stuff on desktop, which Sun could have delivered as well and its a great disappointment for all the Sun fans out there.
Posted by JB on February 05, 2008 at 08:22 AM PST #
I am considering updating the same MBP 2.33 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo/2GB also so this is informative. I just installed Leopard on my computer a couple of days ago and love it. It has fixed a lot of problems I was having before - including a delayed suspension at closing. The speed has slowed down though, and so I am anxious to upgrade. I remain a Mac "purist" for now and haven't installed Windows to the computer. I will report back after I have upgraded on my experience.
Posted by Lynda on February 21, 2008 at 05:37 PM PST #
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Posted by wagnerk13 on March 02, 2008 at 02:12 AM PST #
I'm also about to upgrade from the same machine to the new 15inch, 2.6Ghz, 7200rpm model - I have a couple of questions, if I may - can I assume as a Sun employee you are running Java on your new machine:
1. How have you found Java compilation times in Eclipse (or XCode/NetBeans/IntelliJ or whatever) particularly improved on the new hardware and/or under Leopard?
2. Are you running the Developer release of Java 1.6 or the Soylatte port? Or are you stuck with Java 1.5?
TIA
Liam
Posted by Liam Clancy (metafeather) on March 04, 2008 at 06:51 AM PST #
Actually, Migration Assistant in Leopard lets you use either Firewire or Network (even wireless networking) to make the transfer.
Posted by Robert Chien on April 20, 2008 at 07:31 PM PDT #