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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on October 26th at 6pm?

Tiger Is More Than Twice As Fast As Jaguar

lwcoffer2 said:
As a 10.2.8 iMac Snow 500 DV SE user...STEVE better be testing the OS!
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You realize you could have been running Tiger all this 2.5 years at more than twice the speed you experience now? Why would you keep running Jaguar when it is common knowledge Tiger runs on the same hardware radically faster?
 
Will be interesting how many people trust Time Machine from day 1. When I got my MacBook last year I knew it had this great feature of FileVault. Then I read all the Apple forums where everyone advised not to use it for risk of losing data when it becomes corrupt. A bit pointless introducign a new useful feature if you can't trust it. I really hope Time Machine can be trusted - it's one of the most significant features for me. Not sure how I'm going to backup my stuffed full 1TB hard drive though...
 
If you get in line for this, you're going to feel like a real tool when Apple drops the price a couple months later by 33% or so. Some people will never learn.

But hey, maybe they'll have free give aways this year. Perhaps, an outdoor thermometer that reads 5 degrees too high, with Al Gore's face on it.
 
Isn't this where someone posts that the latest Leopard build is horribly bug-ridden and nowhere close to release-ready? And then some other person refutes that and says it runs perfectly, way better and more reliable than even 10.4.100?

Anyway, I hope the gold candidate is reasonably good. ;)
 
Time Machine

bilbo--baggins said:
Will be interesting how many people trust Time Machine from day 1. When I got my MacBook last year I knew it had this great feature of FileVault. Then I read all the Apple forums where everyone advised not to use it for risk of losing data when it becomes corrupt. A bit pointless introducign a new useful feature if you can't trust it. I really hope Time Machine can be trusted - it's one of the most significant features for me. Not sure how I'm going to backup my stuffed full 1TB hard drive though...
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Been using Time Machine for over a year now -- has never failed, and has restored many-a-fragmented/lost files. Seems highly reliable
 
I imagine Time Machine should be easier to check and confirm, since they are backups. For someone who normally keeps a single backup of their hard drive, I'm sure it will be fine.

Now if you currently are running tape backups with daily snapshots and all that jazz, maybe you'll wait for 10.5.1 or 10.5.2... ;)

bilbo--baggins said:
Will be interesting how many people trust Time Machine from day 1. When I got my MacBook last year I knew it had this great feature of FileVault. Then I read all the Apple forums where everyone advised not to use it for risk of losing data when it becomes corrupt. A bit pointless introducign a new useful feature if you can't trust it. I really hope Time Machine can be trusted - it's one of the most significant features for me. Not sure how I'm going to backup my stuffed full 1TB hard drive though...
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Goremometer

irun5k said:
If you get in line for this, you're going to feel like a real tool when Apple drops the price a couple months later by 33% or so. Some people will never learn.

But hey, maybe they'll have free give aways this year. Perhaps, an outdoor thermometer that reads 5 degrees too high, with Al Gore's face on it.
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Great door-prize/gift for the first 105 customers............
 
Is there any way to know if your software will work with Leopard out of the box (day 1)... other than crash-testing it yourself?? I NEED Final Cut Express HD, Aperture & a few other, not-so-significant things to work...
 
1 week Friday!

Apple used to release Mac OS X on a Saturday and stores would open at midnight and people would queue.

6pm is more civilised. I wonder if it will be BYO, as in bring-your-own DVD to put it on.

Under two weeks is one hell of a tight turnaround from GM -> Shops, but I am sure they will move hell and high water to make it.
 
Geese, what is with these after-work launches? I want the product at store-opening in the morning!
 
So does this mean if Amazon UK let me pre order, they will ship it for the 26th? So i would get it in the morning - like I did Harry Potter?
 
Partition

~J~ said:
Is there any way to know if your software will work with Leopard out of the box (day 1)... other than crash-testing it yourself?? I NEED Final Cut Express HD, Aperture & a few other, not-so-significant things to work...
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Either clean install Leopard on an external HD and run/test apps from there, or partition your HD (after backing it up) and clean install Leopard on a partition. This is a simple task for those who installed Tiger on a partition of their internal HD -- just erase and install. If you'd rather not shell out the money, you can always wait for feedback, or Torrent first/purchase soon after......
 
Multimedia said:
Staggered. It's 6PM local time so east coast gets it first. If you pre-order it you'll have it delivered by Fed-Ex Ground the day before or earlier that day.
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I was really surprised - and pleased - when FedEx Ground dropped off my 2nd Gen Nano on a Saturday, so I plan to pre-order it, as well, since $30 of my iPhone rebate is tasked to it.
 
~J~ said:
Is there any way to know if your software will work with Leopard out of the box (day 1)... other than crash-testing it yourself?? I NEED Final Cut Express HD, Aperture & a few other, not-so-significant things to work...
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I also recommend you consider doing a complete backup/image of your HD to an external unit so if it all goes wrong (or you just don't like it), then you can just restore. This is my strategy, though I expect to stay with Leopard, regardless.
 
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