upgrade Tiger to Snow Leopard

[RVNG]

I have an older mac (10.4.11, 2x2.66 Ghz Dual Core Intel w/2 GB RAM) and with Adobe CS5 out now, I will need to upgrade to snow leopard...

my question is: will bringing this machine up to 10.6 be smart or am I in for trouble? Has anyone had any experience upgrading OSX over old hardware?

Thanks,
RG

 

[dabob]

upgrade . .. .

upgrade . .. .

I have the same hardware and am in the progress of upgrading now . .. I am doing it in steps from 10.4x to 10.58 currently . . . noticed a couple of issues mostly minor networking fixes and printer pre-sets in InDesign needing to be fixed but nothing out of the ordinary or disastrous yet been running it for a couple of days now and will be going to 10.6 next week . . . CS5 is getting installed today since it will run on 10.5x

good luck

 

[RVNG]

Thanks dabob,

Quick question(s):

Do you need to use the original 10.4 discs at all during the upgrade? (Mine are lost)
What discs did you order to do the upgrade? I think I would also like to go baby steps to 10.5 first.

Thanks,
RG

 

[dabob]

upgrade . ..

upgrade . ..

Didn't need them since the system was 10.4 . . . I used a Leopard upgrade disk I had for my Intel Imac I had at home and baby steps are a good idea from my point of view and if you do it this way you can save over a hundred bucks by not having to buy the Box Set to up grade you can just get the snow leopard disk for about 30 bucks

have fun

 

[DavidMa]

10.4 to 10.6 is no big deal. I would just bite the bullet and do it in one step. Unless you have a lot of free time to install 10.5, then do the 10.6, then do all the updates to 10.6.4 (roughly 1.25 gigs of updates). Should take you about 6-8 hours, give or take. YMMV...Depending on your internet connection speed.

my .02

 

[gogo]

delete plzz

 

[GinSu]

I wasn't brave enough to upgrade my Tiger to SnowLeopard. Instead I added a second HD and installed SL on it., and I'm glad I did. While it can be a hassle to reboot to switch OS, I'm sure its less of a hassle than going whole hog with the upgrade and finding out it broke your system.

 

[Joe]

I have an older mac (10.4.11, 2x2.66 Ghz Dual Core Intel w/2 GB RAM) and with Adobe CS5 out now, I will need to upgrade to snow leopard...

my question is: will bringing this machine up to 10.6 be smart or am I in for trouble? Has anyone had any experience upgrading OSX over old hardware?

Thanks,
RG

I'd add more ram if at all possible. 4 GB would be my minimum while 8 GB would be ideal. CS5 needs all it can get. Other than that you should be good to go.

 

[pmartin]

There can be some issues, especially if you are using a pc server on your network. Fonts reading zeroK and other files seemingly corrupt. Here is a link to solve that issue if you are experiencing it. Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS, Mac OS X, and Windows servers; "-36" or "-50" alerts may appear Also, you may have some difficulty with network printers. We still have a machine running 10.4, so I turned printer sharing on and linked up that way.

No other major problems that I've come across. Knock on wood.