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Yeah, I’m a fanboy… I’m taking the day off to drive an hour to Cincinnati to use my $100 iPhone credit on Leopard!

That’s a great way to spend your credit! Have fun installing it today. Be sure to post your initial thoughts.

Sadly I won’t be getting my upgrade until next week sometime. Ah well.

The FedEx guy should be showing up any minute with mine.  ::wags tail::

Just got home and there was my copy in the mailbox.  Doing my backups now.

Sweet…

Typing this reply in Leopard! 😊

Typing this reply in Leopard! 😊

Initial impressions?

Well, takes some getting used to. Installation was pretty painless. I did an ‘archive and install’. First time I clicked on the Time Machine icon and it transitioned to the app was breath taking. For a second that is, as of course there wasn’t any time traveling yet! 😉

A lot of new stuff so I really need to more time to explore but cover flow and quicklook etc is neat. Spaces really impressed me. It is seamless. I assigned Textmate to a space and when I started Textmate it took me straight to that space. Very clean, making me very happy!

Took me a bit to discover that the active apps in the dock have a small glowing dot underneath. First I thought it to be strange I couldn’t see which apps were active.
I also feel better now I have changed the standard desktop pic to another one. The space thing was a bit too restless for my taste ...

I like the improved interface of iCal.

Mail looks interesting and I am looking forward to be able to sync my notes between mail and my iPhone. Doesn’t look like that is working yet…

Oh, did I mention snappy yet? 😉

Can’t wait. Although I will probably be waiting a bit for my copy. I have a b-day coming up. Will probably ask for it then… till then I will just watch the video demo on apple.com every couple of days and pretend I am John driving leopard on my sweet iMac.  😉

M.

I installed it on my MacBook about 30 minutes after my reply in this thread, but sadly, the lid has been closed ever since, as it has been a busy day, and I did not want to be distracted by new toys.  I did launch Mail.app though, and was thrilled to see that the Activity information is no longer a floating palette, but concisely displayed at the bottom of the sidebar.  And I used the calculator in Spotlight.  Then I closed the lid, as I was obviously being ridiculous.

It’s pretty fast. Noticeably faster.

I’ve had a couple of apps I had to update that didn’t work in Leopard. So far I haven’t had to pay anything extra for any apps that needed updating.

I like the new look, although the menu bar is taking some getting used to. I had my desktop set to randomly rotating photos, and now the menu bar takes on the color or pattern of the top of the desktop image, so every few minutes I’ve got a new color for my menu bar—some good, some not so good.

I like the new Finder—looks like iTunes. Easy and cool-looking. The drop shadow on the top window makes a difference too.

Cover flow is very cool, especially for graphics, photos and (for me) Keynote presentations. No more guessing what the stupid file name really represents!

I backed up using Time Machine and it took about 90 minutes for 45 gigs (that’s with a Firewire 800 drive).

All in all, Apple has done it again, hit one out of the park. . . .

I should only receive Leopard tommorrow if one of my teachers does come back from Paris with the wild cat and escapes Air France’s strike…. Can’t wait any longer…

I’m currently installing on my MacPro while wearing my Leopard t-shirt. Going to the Apple store and waiting in line was pretty fun. 😊