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Will you be buying and installing Leopard on release?

Will you be buying and installing Leopard on release?

  • Yes, I will buy and install on the release date.

    Votes: 105 80.2%

  • No, I will wait for a couple of point releases before taking the plunge.

    Votes: 26 19.8%
  • Total voters
    131
nylon

nylon

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I was thinking weather it would be wise to buy and install immediately or rather to wait until the initial bugs have been ironed out.
 
I'm gonna get it and install it as soon as it's available. I got Tiger within a week or two of release (It was still 10.4.0) and didn't experience any significant bugs. Hopefully, it'll be as good of an experience with Leopard.
 
First post here at Macrumors. I'll buy it the first day if I can find it at one the stores close to me here in Japan. Worst case I will wait until the first weekend after it comes out and hop on the train to the Nagoya Apple Store.
 
Maybe!

I intend to wait for the macbook update and may just replace my machine if I like what I see. Otherwise I will buy it!

Either way though I'll be buying a copy for my GF's macbook.
 
Now, if only we could download it...we could then get it that much faster 🙂. In any case, I'm buying it as soon as possible.

Tyler
 
I'll get it on the first day and load it on one of my Macs after backing up 1st.

If it runs OK I'll leave it on and update my other Mac, if not I'll just restore the back-up and wait for the updates.
 
tracetritt said:
Now, if only we could download it...we could then get it that much faster 🙂. In any case, I'm buying it as soon as possible.Tyler
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You can if you're an ADC member ;-)

I expect to be running Leopard final a few days before it hits stores (I've had the betas on one machine for a while now) - Apple will then send me a shrinkwrapped copy a couple weeks later. (at least that's how it worked out with Jag & Panther). Schweet!

Having said that, I'll probably pre-order a family pack as usual - got quite a few machines here. I won't upgrade 'em all at once though - I usually start with one of the laptops and if that goes okay, move on to the other machines, my primary work box being the last once I'm sure everything is working okay elsewhere.
 
I'll be getting it straight away I think. Too good to miss out on, I don't mind being the one reporting bugs to Apple.
 
Ohhhh yes...

I'll be rocking on up to the Regent Street AppleStore after work on whatever the release day turns out to be, and installing that evening. It'll be a 5-licence 'Family Pack' to cover all my machines (with a couple of spares).

I'll jump right in. 3 Leopard installations: one on an MBP, one on an MB, and one on a G4 Mac Mini. If anything does wrong, I've got my SuperDuper backups to fall back on.

I was up at the AppleStore for the release day of Tiger. Very strange... the staff were standing at the doorway stuffing Tiger boxes into the hands of everyone who walked in. Poor people who'd turned up just to buy an iPod... It felt like they'd got some extra staff in just to walk around and randomly clap & cheer a lot. Crazy American-mimicking 😉

Still, should be fun, if only to point and laugh at the happy-clappy store droids.
 
I'll definitely be getting it immediately when it comes out. When Tiger was released I was about 10th in line at my local Apple Store and installed it immediately after I bought it. I didn't have any issues or bugs then so I guess I have some faith in Leopard.
 
I'll be getting a new MBP as soon as Leopard is pre-installed on them. My first Mac purchase; I'm quite excited! 😀
 
chaosbunny said:
I'll get it as soon as I know CS3 works well with it.
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Same here. I bought a new Mac with Tiger on purpose to avoid having problems with CS3. There's some useful stuff in Leopard but not enough to make it essential - the thing that will probably make me upgrade is the new finder.
 
TFrank2 said:
I'll definitely be getting it immediately when it comes out. When Tiger was released I was about 10th in line at my local Apple Store and installed it immediately after I bought it. I didn't have any issues or bugs then so I guess I have some faith in Leopard.
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did you install it in the store?
 
I voted "wait," because I hardly ever run out and buy the newest OS right off the bat. I was going to make an exception, so that I could update both my iMac and my G4 Macbook to Leopard (my 'book is currently still running Panther, and therefore won't run iLife '08). However, since it appears that Leopard won't run on my Macbook (it's only 800, not 867), there isn't any real need for an immediate update (especially since I'm going to have to buy Tiger for my 'book as well as Leopard for my iMac).
 
I will buy it one day 1 but I'll only install it on my secondary machine (mbp). I'll wait to see if the "upgrade" thing works before installing it on my iMac.
 
Gonna wait and get it with a new machine. Every time I buy the software I end up just getting a new machine with it anyways. Besides thats like getting a $130 machine credit.
 
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