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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Robert G

Hey! I like the idea of backing up! but how do I use carbon copy cloner?

October 27 2007 at 6:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

Just posted about my leopard day experience here: http://systematicthought.com/wordpress/

October 27 2007 at 9:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

Anyone tried an install on something less than the system "requirements"? I've got a MacBook and an iBook G4 800 MHz, and am trying to decide whether to get the family pack or not...

October 26 2007 at 2:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tim

Installed it during my lunch break. I big step up from the developers edition. Install in less than 30 mins.

October 26 2007 at 1:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Metaphor

Chap at work installed it and Filemaker truly does not work either v8 or v9.

Not so good as our entire work system is based on Filemaker so we will have to wait until FM sort it out!!!

October 26 2007 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anon

Interesting stories... I guess there are two aspects: Did people who pay extra for priority shipping get bumped off to later in the day? Did people who did not pay extra for priority shipping get bumped up to earlier in the day?

My academic order ($69, woohoo) hasn't even shipped yet. And given these shipping issues, I doubt that it will ship out even by the end of today (boohoo).

October 26 2007 at 1:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan

Arrived at my college campus at 10:30 EST. Install seems to be running smoothly.

October 26 2007 at 1:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

I'm Still waiting. It was to be here by 10:30am. When I checked the tracking number, the status had been changed to "Exception" I called FedEx and was told there was a delay out of INDY because of weather and it would noon even though it arrived here in Louisvilleat 7:05 am. Well it's almost 1 pm and I called again because the time was updated to 4:59 pm. The rep asked me if it was an Apple Computer thing, and I said yes. She said that a special memo came out that reported these shipments would be late due to an overwhelming volume of over 150,000 units, of course not just to this market. I could have waited a bit longer and gone to CompUSA and saved $30 at 6 pm.

October 26 2007 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rhywun

Mine just arrived here at work (NYC). Yay! Six hours before I dare tear it open...

October 26 2007 at 12:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jouni Salo

My preorder failed to materialize as advertised in Finland. TNT.

October 26 2007 at 12:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply