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Hurrah!

bummer...i'll be out of the country

F THAT! I want Vista 2.0! LongerHorn!

If October 26 is the date, then it seems they would make an announcement before the 22nd. Anyway, just bring it on!!!

Vista 2.0's horns are so long M$ can't fit it in the box. The only packaging that it fits in is a ten yard dumpster. Time to go long on waste Management stock.

That is my B-Day I know what am I getting!

BRING IT ON!

I can't wait for Leopard, I've got TWELVE people all waiting till the announcement before purchasing a new Mac.

And I am going to get the family pack, install it on my 4 Macs and keep 1 spare for a rainy day.

Fsck Mafia$oft!

ME CAN HARDLY WAITS!!!

where's the top secrets?

That would be my birthday. What a present. B)

i remember when i bought my first mac in 2005, a couple of weeks before tiger. i took the option to pre-buy tiger at a discounted price with my mac (awesome). even better, the friday it was released, i received tiger at 4pm via ups. oh what a wonderful feeling!

It's already a year late and they wait till the last few days of October. Why can't Apple for one release something early? Disappointing.

"The moment we've all been waiting for is nearly upon us!"

Elvis is back?

P r e c i o u s!

@Gman

Running Tiger? Then you already have Vista 2.0. Turn towards the future now.

10/25 - flowers to mom in law for her birthday, Check.
10/25 - flowers and bling to wife four our anniversary, Check
10/26 - flowers to my mom for her bday, Check
10/26 - 10am @ local Apple Store, finally some fun for Jim

Priceless.

Late october is when ical, alarm, and every other reminder on the net earns their $$ from me. Had a brain fart one year out of the last 27 and forgot what the end of october was all about - never again folks, never again.

"wife for"

OSXTOBER!

A WORD OF ADVICE

Leopard is going to have some bugs. No doubt about it..

If you're the type of person who is going to do nothing but bitch and complain about how Apple has failed you, then DON'T install Leopard until the bugs have been worked out.

There is no amount of testing that Apple can do that will prepare for a real world release of a new OS.

Bugs will exist, things will be broken and incompatibilities are most certain.

You've been warned.

I hope there will be another iPhone update to coincide with this release. 'Notes' synching with checklist support would be welcome among other features.

If Apple isn't going to support 3rd party iPhone apps, they need to at least support Flash in Safari!!!! This one technology would open up a whole world of possibilities given the release of Flex and advancement of Flash itself.

If you want Flash on your iPhone, don't forget to let Apple know:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Not much P.R. going on about this from Apple.
One would think there would be some more hype about this.

iMaki, I don't know what type of calendar you are using, but how do you figure that it's a year late??? It was originally scheduled to be released earlier this year. Now, would you prefer that they go out and release the software half-baked and full of bugs (ala Vista) or would you prefer a cleaner product?

Given Apple's recent software record with new offerings - iLife 08, iPhone, Leopard 10.5.0 will have bugs, probably being much less functional than 10.4.10 or soon to appear 10.4.11.

Unless you enjoy being a "beta tester" (aka bug tester) best to wait for 10.5.1 or .2 before playing with the new cat.

As to bugs: I was thinking about how so many people's iWeb 1 pages got zapped by iWeb 2 until the two week later update. No doubt that there will be a few bugs.

Still, after waiting 2 years I'll probably buy it the day it comes out and hold my breath. Or not.

Either way, within 6 weeks it'll be on both of my Macs. Probably more like within 2.

MW -- required

Tiger works great for me. I'll wait a few months til the bugs get worked out. Besides, it will be fun to watch everyone b*tch about problems they encounter with Leopard

The wow starts October 26th.

@iMaki
You're easily disappointed. You will live a happier life if you don't let computer OS release dates get under your skin.

@ all the Leopard FUDsters posting here

I'll take the release-date Leopard experience over the release-date Vista experience any day.

And OS X 10.5.1 will arrive in a far more timely manner than Vista SP1 will.

Hurray! Spring is here!!!

Just my $0.02

Hasta la vista Vista!

I'm in no hurry to upgrade, at least not until I upgrade my G4 PowerBook for a MacBook or MacBook Pro.

Tiger is great and, honestly, none of the stuff we've seen for Leopard is sufficiently 'must-have' to warrant an early purchase. Just how much more stuff can Apple (or Microsoft) shoe-horn into an OS?

YIPPY-SKIPPY!!!

–Ms. Piggy

I can hear it now. If there is so much as a font in Leopard that doesn't quite work right in a particular application, get ready for the onslaught of negative press from the M$ apologists-"see, it's just as buggy as Vista."

Hmmm... I know what I'll be spending my iPhone refund on... very clever of them.

I know you can use Bootcamp to run windows or OSX, but could you use it to run Tiger & Leopard. I have only a couple of "critical" apps on my home machine and I would love to be an early adopter for Leopard. I know I could run an external drive and do it that way, but I don't want to run either over firewire.

So can this work?

MDN: "need" -- I want to play with the new toy, but I need to know that I can get back to what works if it fscks up.

@macuser_e7: I hope you are in the small percentage of people who keep their critical files backed up on a daily basis. I look forward to Leopard for Time Machine if for no other feature. I want Leopard day one, bugs or not. I'd rather have my files on a buggy Leopard than to lose them on a flawless Tiger.

I was hoping it would be released on the 11th...my birthday.

it is not boot camp you would just need to partition your hard drive

boot camp is only needed for windoze not a mac os x install

Nope. You would need two partitions to do that (or as you mentioned, another hard drive).

@ Jim - TIV

Wives number 1 through 3 -- NO FLOWERS FOR YOU !!!!

@ IMAKI

Leopard is shipping roughly 4 months later than was originally intended. Not a year.

You sir, are smoking the crack...

People griping already. I guess they are getting a head start. Reading these posts is like listening to my mother-in-law.

For people who want to use Leopard from day one but are concerned about bugs read on....


..download Carbon Copy Cloner! Get yourself an external HD and clone your Tiger to this. Then install Leopard on your Mac.

IF anything happens to Leopard that is so severe you need to revert back to Tiger, use CCC to clone Tiger back from your external drive to your Mac.

All in all, it'll take you an hour or two.

Apple also announced that while they weren't going to go out of their way to accommodate 3rd party applications they can't guarantee that they'll work. Its a new OS and they don't want to run the risk of having a 3rd party application cause problems. Apple really needs to control the whole environment to make sure the user has the best possible experience.
So, they've decided to encrypt the whole file system and only properly signed apple approved (and written by apple) apps will run.

Hey, there is plenty you 3rd party devels can do with safari, quit yer whining. You've just been "Steved" AGAIN.

This rant is sarcasm for those of you damaged people who have difficulty with the concept.

BOHSCA (Bend over here Steve comes again)

I've tested it and it's ready. Trust me.

Waiting to order my MacBook Pro wiith Leopard installed !!!

I apologize for my useless post in advance, but some of these posts make me ill.

People are complaining that its taking too long while others are stating that its buggy even before it is even released. How the heck do you know? More-so how do you know if those bugs will effect you? If security/stability etc. are important, then you should wait, but why even switch if Tiger is working for you?

People have been running Leopard reliably for months now...

By 26th October I'll put money on it being 99.9%.

You'll have to be VERY unlucky if doesn't work as it says on the box...

> BOHSCA (Bend over here Steve comes again)

I like that. I often use the TYSMIHA version. Think the Animal House scene with the dudes in funny white robes.

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Not guaranteed to work with 3rd party apps... It looks like Adobe CS 3 may fall into this category. Adobe has warned that OS X.5 may break some of its apps, but that they're working on fixing them (again).

I want Leopard day one, bugs or not. I'd rather have my files on a buggy Leopard than to lose them on a flawless Tiger.

But if one of those bugs happens to be in Time Machine...

I'm worried about Leopard. It might not be perfect on Day #1. So I won't buy it then. I'll wait until Monday and read all about it on MacFixIt (and here). Of course, were I to buy it on Friday I'd be even more of a walking wreak for my son's Saturday wedding than I might otherwise be. Hope they have a Family Pack left at the Apple Store on Monday!

Dave