Heading to Chicago today, and used my iPod on the way to the airport to catch up on the Kojo Mnamdi (whoa on spelling - that can’t be right!?)’ Tech Tuesday with the Computer Guys podcast.

A caller asked whether he should update his OS (caller was a PC user) to Vista or just start fresh with a brand new machine. The caller was advised that changing out the OS is never a good idea on a PC platform.

Ahem. In a phased transition on my G5 Powerbook, I recently undertook the following:

a) maxed out my memory in September
b) purchased Tiger in October (yes, I know Leopard comes out in January, but I don’t need to be THAT up to date!)
c) ordered Adobe Creative Suite 2 Deluxe in November

The only hiccup was a perceived hiccup: I needed to wait until I had all client work done and delivered (including those unanticipated requests which arose during my winter month-long holiday) before performing the OS and software updates. I kept waiting and waiting, in case something went wrong. Happy to report that it was a breeze.

Note: these are not projects to be performed in haste, as you want to then make sure you have the latest updates of everything you just installed, test all software with existing files and create some new dummy test files, and then reset permissions. But, hey! It was as easy as pie and reminds me once more that it should be a Mac World every day, not just every second-week-of-January-in San-Francisco.