To all,
Like most, I'm just as anxious to start using Leopard as soon as possible. Here is an approach from Jeff Schewe that allows someone to get their toes dipped into the Leopard pool, and not damage a working system.. Think of the invvestment in a drive as a good backup scenario for Time Machine anyway... :-) Jeff posted this on the Adobe forum.
"Personally, I'm going to clone my main boot drives, boot from the external FireWire drives and do the 10.5 update on those drives to test out 10.5 and application compatibilities. I would be inclined _NOT_ to migrate my main boot drives to 10.5 until I see a 10.5.1 update or I convinced myself that the current mission critical apps I need to run will run on 10.5 or those apps have been updated for 10.5 compatibility.
The LAST thing I would do is rush to update my boot drives only to find that the 10.5 breaks my main app workflows of course, that's just me.
I went to the Apple store Sat afternoon and bought my 10.5 update but it's not like it's burning a hole in my pocket. I also figure it'll take days if not weeks to just learn how to _USE_ 10.5 let alone to be able to depend on it... "
Jay S.