Apple's new operating system upgrade has lots to offer, and I was excited to finally be joining the hip kids' table this weekend. For those of you thinking of taking the leap, I have put together this handy tutorial to show you how it's done.
Step 1: Arrive at Phist's place, open 2 cans of beer. When prompted by the handsome asian gentleman with the question, "Yo, I got Leopard, you wanna upgrade your shit?" Answer "Yes."
Step 2: Stop to appreciate Leopard packaging, then insert disc into your Macbook's slot-loading optical drive. Follow prompts on screen.
Step 3: After the disk checks have been completed, the installation will begin, and your Macbook's optical drive will begin making that "start, stop, start" sound that it makes when trying to read data from a badly damaged CD. This is because your optical drive is not reading the disc.
Step 4: Realize that you are halfway into the installation, your hard drive is being accessed, and ejecting the disc or turning off your computer are not an option. Proceed to freak the fuck out.
Step 5: When freaking the fuck out is completed, scratch head and drink beer.
Step 6: Politely ask the included Korean friend to use his own Macbook to search Google for possible solutions.
Step 7: Google results will show that Macbooks equipped with the Matshita DVD-R optical drive are commonly affected by this problem, as the Matshita DVD-R optical drive is a worthless piece of crap that won't read anything.
Step 8: Turn to Korean friend and say "Hey, that's the same optical drive that MY computer has."
Step 9: Make jokes about the name "MatSHITa" and drink beer.
Step 10: Turn Macbook UPSIDE DOWN until you hear the disc being read and the installation begins.
Step 11: Place Macbook upside down on coffeetable while installation completes. Laugh hysterically and make jokes about Steve Jobs. Open another beer and talk to Phist about the cute Chinese girl you like.
Step 12: When installation is complete, turn Macbook right side up and restart the system. You are now ready to enjoy OSX Leopard.
I hope this tutorial has been helpful to those of you poor suckers who bought the Macbook with the crappy CD drive like I did. Please note that beer and Phist may not be included with some packages.
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Also, that upside down trick reminds me of the PS1. I used lay it on his head quite often.
I have a Leopard start up disk that my friend didn't use but i can't be assed to transfer the contents of my HD to my iMac so that i don't lose all my data.
Hassle.
Also, I can’t deal with one-button mouses, and the Apple key instead of Ctrl, and close/minimize/resize window buttons on the top left corner instead of the top right, and severely reduced compatibility with programs, and all kinds of other stuff about Macs. Just personal preference, though...
I have to admit that Leopard, with all it's new features has disappointed me a bit. While it's still a million times more stable than any Windows OS I've use, Leopard has been less stable than previous Apple OSes. It also seems like since the Intel switch and the increase in popularity they've been starting to cheapen out.
Here's my Apple hardware story: I had an iBook that had a faulty monitor (the backlight would randomly stop working). I took it to the Apple Store, they didn't know how to fix it so they sent it away and since those people didn't know what they were doing either, they replaced everything on my computer with refurbished crap that made my system worse (because if you don't know what the problem is, replace everything). I sent it back a second time, they claimed to fix it and it died after an hour. They fixed it a third time but the DVD drive was busted. A fourth time I went in and they fixed that but the monitor problems started happening again.
Apple felt bad for me and replaced my computer with a brand new MacBook that was the best model at the time. Luckily this computer has given me no problems.
The jury's still out on Leopard for me. I managed to kill it the weekend before last. Fortunately I was able to back everything up before I wiped it. This time I'm actually trying out Time Machine.
Spaces it a retarded "feature". It's been done so much better for so long. Shit, BlackBox's pager was cooler than Spaces. /rant
Jinx. =D
You're late. Check the 3rd comment ;)
I did.
Have you found that you airport connection isn't as stable now that you've upgraded to leopard?
Anyway, if this ever happens again you can use Disk Utility to make a copy of the Leopard disc on a hard drive partition and do your install from there. I put a copy of the Leopard disc on one my my network drives so I can access it from any of my computers in a pinch.
Good thing that you managed to find a work around.