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

[HEXUS]

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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[DR]

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

[usxhe190]

good luck with the upgrade...

[Gordy]

I've ordered a copy too

[charleski]

http://joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1012.html

I must admit I'm tempted, but a voice is telling me to wait a month or two.

[koocha]

Can't wait. Got it ordered.

[RoganJosh]

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

[Bob Crabtree]

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:

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.

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?

[Bob Crabtree]

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

Have you yet told the world about that experience?

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

[virokka]

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

[DR]

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

Just do it

[Bob Crabtree]

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

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.

[DR]

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.

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.

[Fraz]

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.

[DR]

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...

[Bob Crabtree]

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.