Not pre-ordering but definitely getting it. The bling alone is worth an upgrade. Then you throw in the overall backend improvements and it's a no brainer.
.."It appears that some have already obtained legitimate copies of Apple's latest Mac OS X operating system. Meanwhile, many customers are reporting that their Leopard orders have been "prepared for shipment" with a few reports that it has already shipped for some."
OS upgraded over the weekend. So far it seems to be faster overall but I suspect it's a function of a more efficient caching system. The new features are delicious candy and finder is drool worthy. It's quite beautiful to look at and I was surprised at how fast it was to create the previews for all the file types. The only ones it's got issues' with are some of my movies that require more advanced codecs, which doesn't surprise me and I'm not concerned about. Everything else though it's ridiculously fast.
Now I'd like to say my upgrade went smoothly and for the most part it did. I was however met with the Blue Screen + Mouse pointer upon my first reboot. I however had previously read about this issue so I wasn't panicking and I was prepared for it. If anyone doesn't know what that is it happens when you do the upgrade install (not the archive and install method). Your upgrade completes and after the first reboot you get a blue screen with a mouse pointer and that's it.
Fortunately it's usually a pretty simple fix and more importantly YOU HAVEN'T LOST ANYTHING. It's a fairly common problem if you have any incompatible application enhancers installed.
Click for the solutions I went with option 2 and upon rebooting everything worked peachy keen. I'm not sure exactly what I had installed that broke it yet, so far everything seems to be working normal. But to give anyone a heads up I have
AudioHijack installed, Sunflower, Flip, Directx and a program that allows direct r/w to NTFS partitions.
A friend of mine got leopard and it looks good. I'm not a mac user, so I don't know a lot of the small changes. Overall its pretty cool looking. He even bought a 320GB external drive for time machine.
System 7.5.3 is available as a free download from Apple as well as the patch to 7.5.5. However, System 7.5.x is not very stable on PowerPCs and all of your MacOS 8.x software is almost guaranteed not to run. I mean, the System 7.x kernels don't support threading. That's pretty bad.
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so whats the deal with leopard? is there a 64bit version of it? or is it a 64bit OS itself?
I got mine today, although I won't play with it til this weekend.
0_o its not out till tomorrow.
its the 26th somewhere right....
.."It appears that some have already obtained legitimate copies of Apple's latest Mac OS X operating system. Meanwhile, many customers are reporting that their Leopard orders have been "prepared for shipment" with a few reports that it has already shipped for some."
total damage: 69.00+tax
Now I'd like to say my upgrade went smoothly and for the most part it did. I was however met with the Blue Screen + Mouse pointer upon my first reboot. I however had previously read about this issue so I wasn't panicking and I was prepared for it. If anyone doesn't know what that is it happens when you do the upgrade install (not the archive and install method). Your upgrade completes and after the first reboot you get a blue screen with a mouse pointer and that's it.
Fortunately it's usually a pretty simple fix and more importantly YOU HAVEN'T LOST ANYTHING. It's a fairly common problem if you have any incompatible application enhancers installed.
Click for the solutions I went with option 2 and upon rebooting everything worked peachy keen. I'm not sure exactly what I had installed that broke it yet, so far everything seems to be working normal. But to give anyone a heads up I have
AudioHijack installed, Sunflower, Flip, Directx and a program that allows direct r/w to NTFS partitions.
-drasnor
You have probably already thought of this but can you not download OS 7.3(?) online for free? Maybe that is too old?
-drasnor
Had to boot her up in Target mode and install from another machine...
Fully usable for my needs.