Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.7
I just upgraded my almost 2 year old Macbook from 10.5 to 10.5.7 to prepare for iPhone development (yeah, we've got something huge for everyone coming up real soon!). The upgrade process was a breeze and very straightforward--getting the upgrade CD was the hard part. The local Mac Store does not sell upgrade CDs from Tiger to Leopard so I had to purchase one from eBay. It took around 8 days before I received the package. If you're looking at developing iPhone apps for iPhone 2.2.1 then you'll only need Leopard 10.5.6 but since iPhone 3.0 is just around the corner, I went for the 10.5.7 upgrade instead!
the iPhone SDK installation screen
Installing the iPhone 2.2.1 SDK was easy. Downloading the huge 2GB installation file took me forever though! The SDK includes XCode, Apple's official professional tool for software development for the Mac and iPhone. After the upgrade above and the SDK installation, my machine's now geared up for any kind of Mac or Windows development! Oh, did I say I'm also running Windows XP on my Macbook? :)
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