I had a chance to play with Leopard last night while helping my photographer friend get his brand new 24″ iMac setup. He’s new to the mac world and he will soon be happy to be converted.

I really like most of the new features and the new look and feel, but I’m not going to just willy nilly install the new OS while crossing my fingers and hoping it will work with all of my software. One poster on macrumors apparently did just that:

I’m so screwed. I am also having this problem and I have both work and class work that needs to be done this weekend.

All I have to say is “HA” and read up before you install. As for me, it sounds like most people that do a clean install, meaning they wipe their hard drive and do a clean install of OS 10.5 Leopard have reasonably good success using Adobe CS3 apps (minus the pro video apps read here for more).

So lesson learned is: PLEASE, don’t upgrade your operating system without first reading up on how it’s going to potentially affect your workflow in the immediate future and making sure you have a good backup of all of your important data.

If you’re just too excited and can’t wait to install, then I’ll be sure to catch your crys for help in the comment sections of various blogs in the near future. Someone has to be the guinea pig right?