Better a loping late Leopardlate for any imaginable or unimaginable reasonthan a limping Leopard on time.
Each to his own. There is no single correct approach to OS upgrades, because it depends upon need as well as on greed. There are six Macs in this household that can run OS X natively, without artifice. Only one is a G4, the most 'modern' processor in the house. One G3 runs Jaguar, because that is the last OS supported for its principal software, an audio wave editor. Four, including the G4, run Panther, for which I have five licences. Don't discount multiple licences as a reason for staying with an OS. Only one G3 runs Tiger.
My other 40-odd Macs have each the highest OS/System that they can run comfortably, with whatever hardware upgrade they have and considering the constraints of RAM, except for a few G3-upgraded Macs that could be persuaded to run 9.2.2. I'm not-at-all diffident about remaining behind the technology until I need it. Apple is not immediately about to abandon Panther, which will serve many a Mac well for some time to come, and also serve many Macs that have yet to be upgraded that far. Not the least incentive for Apple to continue support of Panther is the size of its installed base.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8
Each to his own. There is no single correct approach to OS upgrades, because it depends upon need as well as on greed. There are six Macs in this household that can run OS X natively, without artifice. Only one is a G4, the most 'modern' processor in the house. One G3 runs Jaguar, because that is the last OS supported for its principal software, an audio wave editor. Four, including the G4, run Panther, for which I have five licences. Don't discount multiple licences as a reason for staying with an OS. Only one G3 runs Tiger.
My other 40-odd Macs have each the highest OS/System that they can run comfortably, with whatever hardware upgrade they have and considering the constraints of RAM, except for a few G3-upgraded Macs that could be persuaded to run 9.2.2. I'm not-at-all diffident about remaining behind the technology until I need it. Apple is not immediately about to abandon Panther, which will serve many a Mac well for some time to come, and also serve many Macs that have yet to be upgraded that far. Not the least incentive for Apple to continue support of Panther is the size of its installed base.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8