So I have installed Mac OS X 10.5.2 updates on 4 different machines now and it has been flawless on all and works very well. One was an in-place upgrade from Tiger (10.4.11), and that one had a strange anomaly before upgrading to 10.5.2… it got itself into a “Setup Assistant” loop, and would not let Erci actually log in. It took a little googling to discover that the laptop needed to be shutdown after it had restarted, but before anyone logged in so it could apply pre-restart installs.
I am almost finished preparing a 12″ PowerBook G4 for resale, so if you are interested; let me know.
I am trying to repair an original PowerBook G4 Titanium for resale.
I am now using and very happy with a MacBook Air with SSD storage. It is amazingly fast for routine operations because of the extremely good latency on all traditional drive operations. There a lots and lots of people bashing the Air as a product who have not thought through the issue they are complaining about very well… Note: any old USB based DVD/CD drive works fine. I have been able to install software and boot from install discs with no trouble at all. After initial conditioning, battery life is great as I am not burning juice to keep a drive spinning. It is light enough that I carry it to every meeting now, and it very well could replace my Palm Tungsten C as a PDA as well as extend my desktop computer to meetings and when traveling. I do wish it had a firewire port, but I have not needed one yet. It has no place to plug in a traditional laptop security cable. I suspect it will be fun to scrub the hard drive when I trade this in for something else in a few years (this has come to my notice as I scrub the old machines for give-away and resale).
We are slowly ripping our entire CD library into the Mac Mini home audio server, I did Pet Shop Boys yesterday and noticed that they recorded a lot of very danceable sambas! Next up, organizing photo libraries…
The cats are getting along better now.
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