Users Reporting Leopard Instability Problems
At the time of writing there appears to be no official response to any of these issues from Apple.
Some of the threads currently discussing this topic are :-
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1213524&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5719181�
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5710208�
My personal experience of this issue is that it appears to be GUI related in that all the windows freeze and become unresponsive, clicking on any menu or open window is ineffective, nothing happens. Yet in the background iTunes continues to play and even hourly Clock announcements ( courtesy of the new Alex voice ) continue to operate which seems to suggest that the system is still functioning and just not responding to user interaction. I have not tried connecting remotely to my Mac when this happens yet but if it hits me again I will try this.
In order to narrow the issue I have now disabled Time Machine and switched of the external Firewire disk I have been using for this as in the last couple of instances at least I am fairly sure that Time Machine was working in the background and on one occasion I was actually browsing around inside Time Machine itself when the system froze.
Personally I am hoping that Apple respond to these issues quickly with a fix as it is not only a royal pain to have to power down and restart, losing any unsaved work in the process, but it will also be potentially very damaging to OS X’s reputation as a stable and robust.
If you have had similar issues or can suggest any steps to take to troubleshoot this issue I would love to hear from you here.
It seems that my issue at least may be video card related. Apple have just released an updated Driver for new iMacs with ATI graphics chipsets via Software Update. I have patched and hopefully that will sort my problems.
I will post here again if I have further crashes….
Ok, just had first crash post-update so it appears whatever the update that was it didn’t resolve my problem.
Oh well…
Scott’s iMac: get well soon.
omg had my first freeze last night! That was on my 24imac running tiger!
Thanks Alec !
LOL
This stuff happens to real computers
Just shows you that there is so much more to the new OS to be concerned about…or positively you could think there a more things to play with to make the OS even better 
I have also had many system freezes on both my 24in iMac and 15in macBook Pro
Strange how the old (white) model of iMacs aren’t affected but the new ones are - I suppose I should count myself lucky.
Interestingly I switched off Time Machine again on Friday and have left the external drive switched off… Since then no freezes. May be coincidence, I dont know. I am working from home today so will be using the Mac all day ( running Parallels Win XP session to work ) so this will be a good test. If its going to freeze it will do today.
Oh well, there goes the Time Machine theory. Just had a freeze after nearly 3 days of running. This time I was just reviving from display sleep, only the display didnt revive !
Yeah guys i upgraded to Leopard on my macbook pro and was greeted by a total freeze the first day. I couldnt do anything, had to cold boot losing all my work that wasnt saved.
having these issues as well
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