[DM-MUG] Leopard runs hotter?

Fri Nov 2 11:36:20 CDT 2007

I installed Leopard over my existing system. So far so good. My  
initial backup with Time Machine took almost a full day (I started it  
around 10am and it was still going when I left for the day around  
5pm). My computer has *a lot* of stuff on it (close to 3 years worth  
of work). Now that I have finished that, it doesn't work nearly as  
hard on the backups. Once every hour, it backs up what I was doing,  
and then it also makes a daily backup. I have no complaints ... yet.  
We will see how it really works after I need something (of course, I  
plan to test that before I actually *need* it. ;-) )

Stuart

On 2 Nov 2007, at 11:30 , Bryan Baker wrote:

> Well, if you only let it run for ~10 min it probably didn't have  
> time to finish it's first full backup. The problem is, that it needs  
> a place to start, so it needs a FULL backup of the system - that's  
> everything. I'd be surprised if it took less than 10. Once this is  
> done once, most of what it does is make copies of anything that  
> changed since the last one, so those should be almost unnoticeable.  
> That's the theory. This is being typed by someone who has a shrink- 
> wrapped copy of Leopard on his desk, not someone who's already  
> running it, but I remember having to walk away from in-progress  
> Tiger first boots because the dang indexing was taking hours.
>
> It's also possible that your "radar" is up, and that while it is  
> currently "hotter" over time the power consumption will decrease as  
> the system finishes all the stuff it's doing behind the scenes in  
> the background.
>
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Roses Derise wrote:
>> Also 109.99 at macmall with rebate for shipping.
>>
>> So far, I feel regret that I bought Leopard. A lot of little things  
>> don't
>> seem to work well--such as some (but not all) the little yellow  
>> memory
>> strips (such as the ones that pop up, say, account numbers), and my  
>> printer
>> drive not loading properly on start-up. As some of you have said, I  
>> don't
>> like the folders and even though I am not a fan of dark colors, I  
>> do seem to
>> have adapted to the black dock and I do feel some admiration for  
>> the sleek
>> designing. I like the stationary in Mail and I love the Spaces  
>> feature and
>> other things that someone here wrote was just cosmetic stuff, which  
>> I agree.
>>
>> My biggest complaint, and for me its a big deal, is that I suspect  
>> that on
>> my Macbook Pro where my hands on directly on the machine, Leopard  
>> runs
>> hotter than Tiger.
>>
>> I bought Leopard primarily because of Time Machine. As a writer,  
>> even ten
>> minutes of lost work can be major, like an artist losing carefully  
>> laid down
>> brush strokes. But within a few minutes of using it, I unplugged it,
>> realizing that that I'd have been smarter to take the time to use a  
>> $20
>> flash drive every so often because, with Time Machine running, the  
>> computer
>> heats up a lot more, driving me nuts when I am trying to focus on  
>> creative
>> work with that irritating noise of the fan running and from the  
>> heat on my
>> palms.
>>
>> I'm sure Apple will come along with fixes for the bugs and that  
>> over time
>> I'll adapt to the changes, but as someone who is not computer savvy  
>> and can
>> only review from a superficial level, at this point, I can't say  
>> getting
>> Leopard was worth the price.
>>
>> Roses
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/2/07 10:19 AM, "Russ & Marilyn Carlson"  
>> <marruss at crosspaths.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know if anyone is interested given the recent reports but
>>> Leopard is on sale at CompUSA for the next two days Friday and
>>> Saturday.  It is selling for $109.99 a $20.00 reduction.  Des Moines
>>> Register Nov. 2  page 3A.
>>>
>>> Russ
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