My wife and I have loved our Macs since we got them a year or so ago, and kicked ourselves for not transitioning from Windows machines earlier (although I still use “Windoze” on my Acer Aspire One netbook for writing).When we first got our MacBook Pros, they had the Leopard OSX (10.5) and worked great.

Then we “upgraded” to Snow Leopard (10.6). My God, I feel like we’re back struggling with Windoze Millenium Edition again! While my machine hasn’t experienced that many problems, my wife’s has been an absolute disaster, even AFTER it was sent back to the factory for an unrelated problem (fried motherboard) and had a fresh OSX 10.6 install done.

Apps have been crashing constantly, and she’s had to waste a huge amount of time re-doing things. And this is her work machine, her income-generator.

Today, after a weekend full of one crash after another, I dug out the boxes our Macs came in and found that – to my great relief! – there are copies of Leopard 10.5 that we can use to “revert”. So once she gets everything backed up, we’re ditching the “finely tuned” Snow Leopard OS and going back to what was working fine.

The moral of the story? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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