Tidbit: Some more Leopard Advice

I was watching the refferals to the site and saw that someone on Apple discussions was linking to my latest editorial. They linked to me in response to a set of questions a user had about Leopard. I answered them and wanted to link his questions (in italics) and my answers to those questions because what he asked was something that a lot of users may experience when it's time to upgrade to Leopard.

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Questions:

1. What commercial external USB hard drive should I look at? (I'm not a build-your-own kind of guy.)

2. Should I obtain separate external hard drives for my 24" iMac as well as my C2D MacBook?

3. Should I have the external hard drive in place prior to the Leopard upgrade so Leopard finds it right off the bat?

4. Should I upgrade my RAM on the Mac Pro to 6 or 8 Gig? Is that necessary or needed?

5. When I receive Leopard (I bought the family pack because I have so many Macs) will it install over my current Tiger system leaving everything in place or do I have to start from scratch (I can't believe Apple would do that to us!).


Answers:

1. LaCie (triple interface) and WesternDigital MyBook drives are excellent in terms of reliability. I've owned six externals (USB and FW) over the past 4 years and those two brands hold up the best. You'll save some cash building your own and have a longer warranty. get a usb external case and a seagate drive from newegg. get Serial ATA and then you'll have a three year warranty on that drive. pre-built external drives only have a one year warranty. Consider that when making the purchase.

2. You said 24" iMac (is this a core2duo?) and c2d macbook, both of these may have 802.11n compatability. if so, pick up an Airport Extreme Base Station and connect the USB external hard disk to that. Then you can backup both computers to this drive. You may want to get a 1terabyte and create a folder (macbook and iMac) for each computer on that drive. Better yet, partition the drive using apple's disk utility. just divide the drive's space in half and configure time machine on both machines to backup to a partition on that drive over the 802.11n wireless.

3. No, you can configure time machine at any time. I'd recommend configuring it after you've got the system setup the way you want it. copy over data, applications and other items then start the time machine goodness.

4. No need. If you have 2-4gbs you're fine. 1gb is minimum IMO but it all depends on your needs as a user.

5. As an MCP (Microsoft certified pro) and apple certified help desk tech for notebooks and desktops, I'd recommend a clean install. Time after time I've seen upgrades go bad (that's why i recommend doing a full backup first). A clean install is also good housecleaning and may help the system run better than an upgrade. Also, the clean install forces you to download the latest applciations instead of keeping the old shareware apps that may not be compatible with the newes cat. it depends on if you have a full weekend to dedicate to leopard or you're in a rush.

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