An Introductory Mac OS X Leopard Review: Mail and iCal By Monday, October 29, 2007, 06:40 am PT (09:40 am ET) Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes with a selection of entirely new or greatly improved applications. The new system is designed to be flexible to fit your needs, so you can import the data from existing apps you currently use into Leopard's, or alternatively continue to use your own preferred alternative apps on the new OS. It also exposes new functionality for developers to allow them to extend upon, replace, or collaborate with Apple's supplied applications. Here's a look at how the new versions of Mail and iCal work. Installation Types As noted in the previous segment,, if you already have Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or 10.4 Tiger installed, you can install 10.4 Leopard as an upgrade. This simply replaces the old parts of the OS with the new components from Leopard, and preserves all of your application settings and configurations.

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The article noted that unless you've already followed MacFixIt's advice to 'drop older system extensions and drivers into newer versions as a hackneyed attempt to fix problems,' the best option is usually to perform an upgrade install, explaining, 'the normal 'Upgrade Mac OS X' installation choice is the default for a reason: it works.' If however, you're experiencing problems with your current system, have hacked away at your system, have installed quirky software (including specialized hardware with drivers that patch the system with Kernel Extensions), or are still running a system prior to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (believe it or not, Leopard actually supports some Macs models that originally shipped with Mac OS 9.2 and Mac OS 10.0), then you need to choose a different install option. First, perform a backup of your drive to a secondary hard drive using a free disk duplication utility such as SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner.

Next, verify your hard drive. You can do this using the Leopard DVD; simply boot from it, and then from the installer page, pull down the Utilities menu and start Disk Utility. If your drive checks out fine, you can do an 'Archive and Install.' If you get disk errors, or if you simply suspect that your drive may be problematic, you can have the installer perform a full 'Erase and Install,' after, of course, backing up your data. Apple outlines the steps in an easy to follow PDF document named 'Install and Setup Guide' on the Leopard DVD.

If you do a simple upgrade, Leopard will leave certain settings as you had them. This includes the downloads directory used by applications such as Safari; by default, they typically dump their files on the desktop. This can be changed in the applications' Edit/Preferences, if you'd rather use the new centralized Downloads directory. Drag this to the Dock if you'd like the Downloads Stack described in. There are a few other slight differences that are inherited from your old system when you upgrade rather than install fresh, but none are really problems.