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Leopard starting to land for lucky users
Good morning everyone! As our 24 Hours of Leopard marathon continues, our UK, Aussie and Kiwi readers are beginning to report in that their mail-order copies of Leopard have arrived (although it's hard to read the tips; apparently the drops of drool and little bits of torn shrinkwrap are clogging up their keyboards). TechCrunch's Duncan Riley had his copy by 9 pm Pacific time and has already upgraded two machines to mostly positive results. One warning from Riley that I can echo from experience with the dev seeds: if you turn on Time Machine right away, be prepared for a slow go until the initial full backup is completed. You may want to wait to activate TM until you sign off for the night; by the time you wake up that first pass should be all done.Not everyone's install experience was so smooth -- Bryce's upgrade got wedged and he had to erase and install before everything got back to normal. Fortunately, he had backed up first; a wise warning for us all... remember, Carbon Copy Cloner and/or SuperDuper! are your buddies.
Are you blogging your Leopard installation experience? Let us know.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Carl Trimble said 9:52AM on 10-26-2007
Got mine this morning at 8:15 am EST.
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mdc said 9:57AM on 10-26-2007
As of 9:34am mine is on a FedEx truck somewhere in NYC being delivered to myself at work.
I have my PowerBook here at work ready to be upgraded to 10.5
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barrett ward said 10:00AM on 10-26-2007
Fedex delivered at 8:30 a.m. EST. Running CCC now!
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TheDogFather said 10:01AM on 10-26-2007
Just got my copy! W000T!
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Heckie Cormack said 10:02AM on 10-26-2007
I just got mine. 3pm UK time!!
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drebes said 10:11AM on 10-26-2007
Just picked up mine in store. ;)
http://picasaweb.google.com/drebes/TokyoLeopardLaunch
Already installed. Some problems, the most important with software updates, which are not working for now.
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Shannon McMahon said 10:20AM on 10-26-2007
Fedex just dropped mine off, but I am still backing up my machine. Doh!
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Jake Howe said 10:20AM on 10-26-2007
quote - (although it's hard to read the tips; apparently the drops of drool and little bits of torn shrinkwrap are clogging up their keyboards) -
you guys, lmfao i just love the comments you make, they make your blog worth reading.
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wsnoble said 10:21AM on 10-26-2007
Fed Ex just dropped mine off @ ~10:00am EST.
:-)
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APR Adzee AU said 10:22AM on 10-26-2007
As an APR (Apple Premium Reseller) in Australia, all I can say is WOW! The response and turn out was MASSIVE! We had tonnes of people through the door and purchasing straight away!
Congrats to Apple with their decent update on an already fantastic OS. If tonight was anything to go by then the next 3 - 6 months will be HUGE!
(Time now 12am 6 hours after Launch)
Just finished up and going to bed, Enjoy OS 10.5 people.
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JGO said 10:22AM on 10-26-2007
A certain kitty cat arrived at my door this morning at 8:45 CST.
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Kwahnoom said 10:25AM on 10-26-2007
My copy has not even shipped yet... (US academic order placed on the 18th) We'll see if it "ships by" today at all.
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Rhywun said 10:28AM on 10-26-2007
@2: Send him down to Wall Street when you're done so I can get mine :)
PS. Is everyone upgrading or doing a clean install? I'm still not sure what to do. This is my first time with a Mac. My Windows experience tells me a clean install is the only way to go but I've heard Mac upgrades actually work (most of the time).
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Gordo said 10:37AM on 10-26-2007
mine is installing at the moment... hurrah!
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Patrick said 10:39AM on 10-26-2007
So, I've been using Leopard for about 9 hours now, got it at 3PM Brisbane, Australia time. Few things of note, Time Machine does start slow, starting it up before you go to bed is a great tip. Quicklook rocks. Cover Flow is really fast and responsive. Only draw back so far is the Software Update Server is down, keeps giving us an error. I've verified with at least 20 people throughout Oz that its not just me. Image of the error is up at http://myskitch.com/patrickc/softwareupdateerror-20071026-185211.jpg
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Carlo Felice Dalla Pasqua said 10:40AM on 10-26-2007
Delivered by Tnt at 12.30 pm Italian time (11.30 UK time, 6.30 am New York time), as you can see: http://cfdp.tumblr.com/post/17241289
And immediately installed, of course :-)
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Balazs said 10:46AM on 10-26-2007
Arrived like 10 mins ago. This is one of the times where it's good living in the UK. Photos of installation and unboxing here: http://flickr.com/photos/baluxp/sets/72157602719950239/
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eric f. said 10:47AM on 10-26-2007
Fedex delivered mine at 9AM sharp in NYC. I have a lot of backing up to do before I start my clean install...
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ajvankesteren said 10:48AM on 10-26-2007
UPS delivered mine this morning. Installation went smoothly using Archive & Install
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Craig said 10:53AM on 10-26-2007
I must say i'm dark about not being able to use GPGMail for pgp encryption. Just comes up with an error on first startup of mail.
Other than that, sensational.
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