Apple now taking pre-orders for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

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Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is shipping on October 26th and promises over 300 new features. Pre-orders start today....

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Read more.

I've ordered it... :) Hopefully this OS upgrade will be more fun than my XP to Vista experience...

good luck with the upgrade...

I've ordered a copy too :)

http://joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1012.html
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I must admit I'm tempted, but a voice is telling me to wait a month or two.

Can't wait. Got it ordered.

Can't wait for this one - my MBP is shivering with anticipation.:crazy:

I've just expanded Tarinder's news story and put up the original press release - I started prepping them while the site was down this afternoon - but have just noticed a slightly worrying little para on Apple's site:

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Easy Install

Installing Mac OS X Leopard couldn't be easier. Just pop in the disc and follow the simple on-screen instructions. You'll be ready to roll with leopard in about an hour or two.

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I say worrying cos a few weeks back I was messing with an old B&W G3 and ended up installing OS 9 and OS X 10.4 a couple of times each (no, don't ask!) and neither seemed to take much time at all.

Why might Leopard take two hours for goodness sake?

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Originally Posted by DR

I've ordered it... :) Hopefully this OS upgrade will be more fun than my XP to Vista experience...

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Have you yet told the world about that experience?

If not, don't you think it's about time you did?

i am so interested in apple products and yet i cant bring myself to make the switch

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Originally Posted by virokka

i am so interested in apple products and yet i cant bring myself to make the switch

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Just do it :)

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Originally Posted by virokka

i am so interested in apple products and yet i cant bring myself to make the switch

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Well, why not establish a half-way house?

Buy a second-hand Mac mini, mess around with it for a month or three and then, if you convinced that you'd like to fully move over to Macs, buy a new modern Mac and flog off the mini for, probably, much the same as you bought it for.

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Originally Posted by Bob Crabtree

Well, why not establish a half-way house?

Buy a second-hand Mac mini, mess around with it for a month or three and then, if you convinced that you'd like to fully move over to Macs, buy a new modern Mac and flog off the mini for, probably, much the same as you bought it for.

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Yeah good point :)

I have made the move pretty well - there are a few things which I miss - like MSPaint ;) For those quick image edits - but when you find something which you can use instead life becomes easy.

Ok... so what's the upgrade fee if you have a mac running 10.4 that you bought before the beginning of October? Is there no-one else out there that thinks this is a total rip off? I personally am pretty outraged that this is a minor version-number OS upgrade, and they're charging £85 quid for it... Microsoft offers its minor OS releases for free - the service packs.

Damn cheek if you ask me.... and yet everyone sucks in the BS that Steve Jobs is spouting - he's making out like he is doing everyone a favour. :angst:

There is no 'upgrade' option - where is the link to allow you to buy it cheap if you already have a mac (between 1st Oct and now)

I'm confused why they didn't do it for all new iMacs or 'recent released' products...

Oh, and a further point about Vista - I note that Slashdot highlighted an article headed, "Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files", which is kind of scary.