Is upgrading worth it? (DP 6)

[Mr. Quimper]

My system is perfectly stable at the moment, but I just bought one of the white Macbooks with FIREWIRE before they're not available anymore and it'll be running 10.5, which I haven't used yet. It'll be here in a few days.

If I replace the HD w/ a 7200rpm drive and put in 4 gigs of ram it'll be significantly faster than my current system, but I'm wondering how 5.13 will behave in Leopard (still on 10.4). Should I finally take the plunge with 6? As someone who used to do a fair amount of graphic design work I absolute hate the new look and hope they allow for some user customization options soon. That said, I use a lot of VIs and could use the prerendering, work with video a lot and could use the extra framerate options, and could use a decent reverb...should I take the plunge? I don't know if I'm going to be able to get over that new user interface, but I'll admit I didn't care for the old interface when I first switched from Pro Tools either.

Maybe I could just use 6 on the Macbook. :p

I guess I'm just asking if 5.13 will work in Leopard or should I go ahead and get 6 and get used to the UI.

[Mr_Clifford]

5.13 runs fine on Leopard. So feel free to not upgrade on that count. There are some VI's that don't work under Leopard, but it seems to mostly be a Power PC thing.

If you do upgrade to DP6 (and the new GUI really doesn't bother me to be honest), you can always download the GUI mods by amplidood & co. which are very good and seem to solve 90% of the gripes people have about it.

[Mr. Quimper]

Well, I took the plunge and upgraded a few other bits. I'll now be on 10.5 running DP 6 and Komplete 5.

I have no idea how this will be stability-wise, but wish me luck!

[onebigdoor]

6 seems to weigh on my processor a bit harder.