Photo of the Leopard Retail DVD

WooHoo!!! Mine shows it has shipped and is on its way from Schuamberg, IL.
Dammit... I used to live 30 minutes from there... now I'm in the Pacific Northwest.

I wonder if the Mac OS 10.5 Up-To-Date discs will be identical to the retail ones? Or if they'll modify the Up-To-Date discs to remove the PowerPC installers and require an existing installation of 10.4?

I ordered mine online from Apple here in Canada. Received an e-mail last night (24th, 2300 hrs) that said it was shipped priority overnight and should be here today (25th). No tracking information yet on Purolator but they always seem to have a slow system.

The DVD looks like this:

http://flickr.com/photos/10196795@N03/1738065400/

I really hope to see this somewhere BEFORE I install my copy. (Pre ordered from Amazon for the $109.00 and no shipping, but I wont be installing for about 2+ weeks). How FAST is this OS compared to Tiger. I'm on a first gen iMac Intel Core Duo. And if 10.5 will run faster than 10.4, all other things being equal, I would really like to know. Thanks

Am I the only one who really, really dislikes the purple outer space imagery that's all over Leopard now? It reminds me of a background that a twelve-year-old might have used for his first web site back around 1995. I'm hoping there's another variation on the abstract blues they've been using forever that I can switch to as soon as I install Leopard.

Thanks, guys. Ya, with priority overnite I'm not too worried now, I didn't notice that before.


Is it shipping Fed-Ex? What time should I expect it?

I'm happy to see that the disc is actually secured to something. IIRC, every other version of OS X came in one of those flimsy envelopes in a great big box. I had at least two experiences where the disc was bouncing around in the box, getting all scratched up because it got out of the envelope.

I already have my copy installed and running smoothly. Have fun sleeping, double up on your Ambien so you'll drop into a coma for the next 2 days and wake up 1hr before launch time.

ok it's actually the same page..
sorry i look stupid.
thought you had found the american box.

still resellers already have the stock here in paris, and we are not quite in the same time zone as cupertino so i guess, that maybe, as they say, they'll give it away earlier.

i'll go give it a try tomorrow, who knows.