Leopard Not for Mac Pro Now...

I couldn't wait to get Leopard on my Mac Pro system (8G RAM, 3TBhd, 2SuperDrives, 1TB external hd, 30" Apple HD Cinema display) it didn't take long before problems began to plague me. First off was the display distortion lines that ran through everything. It was as though someone had scratched the backside of a mirror leaving a line gash across your screen. Didn't matter what program you were running the gashes didn't go away. Scroll upward and they went with you. In the Mac Forums most Mac Pro users with high-end display cards and displays were crying foul. Why hadn't Apple made sure this bug was corrected before releasing Leopard - especially for their professional OSX users?

Next came the system freezes. In the beginning it was random, sort of hit and miss every now and then, but by the end of the week I couldn't stop from restarting the system at least once every two hours. It would just freeze for no reason whatsoever. I pulled out TechTool and examined every piece of hardware from RAM to hard disks. All in perfect condition. Were other high-end Mac Pro users experiencing the same problem? Yes. Could it be a problem with Leopard? The answer was yes.

The freezes became so disruptive that I couldn't get all of my extraneous data copied over for backup before I said "Arrrrrrghhhh" and literally wiped it out. I went back to Tiger v10.4.10 and what a relief it is to have my system back to peak performance!

So until Apple corrects the problems in Leopard for high-end systems, this Mac user is going to stick with Tiger.