Hey, Apple is unleashing the Leopard this week, just wondering how many here are planning an early adoption.

Reminders:

1) It is unwise to upgrade OS or any software for that matter while in
mid-project.
2) Clone your start up drive to have a bootable pre-Leopard system. That
means A) Run Disk Warrior so you are not cloning a drive with directory
errors B) Repair permissions (despite what some genius said) C) Clone using
either SuperDuper 2.1.4 or CarbonCopy Cloner 3.0 (now supporting Intel) D)
Boot from that clone drive and run some apps just to make certain your clone
is good
3) Here is a new one that I will do.... Since Leopard now includes some kind
of font management beyond just FontBook, disable any font manager you have
such as Suitcase prior to the upgrade. That might require a reboot of your
system just to make certain it is off.
4) Remove any cute little system haxies because these are the kinds of
little apps that historically cause the most trouble.
5) Remove any external drives or other unneeded firewire or USB devices just
to be safe.
6) In other words, start with as clean and basic a system as you can.
7) Prior to beginning upgrade, pour one large glass of Scotch. Drink half
the glass prior to inserting the Leopard disk. In the event of upgrade
failure, drink the other half of the glass. Follow that with the remainder
of the bottle. In the event of upgrade success, drink the other half of the
glass only when you have booted successfully and run a few apps

Ned

Just downloaded the guided tour here at work- getting ready to watch. I'll be at the Apple store friday to pick Leopard up. It's going on my Macbook Pro first. I'm doing to do a fresh OS install along with FCS2. I'll follow suite with my Mac Pro desktop as soon as my current wedding project is finished.

Guess I'm the only early adopter?.... wish me luck.

Just finished watching the guided tour. My thoughts...

Time Machine- while the interface is slick I don't like the idea of having to connect an external drive and powering it up every time I turn my Mac on. Though you can probably use an internal drive, they just didn't specify in the tour. I wonder what kind of performance hit the system will take with this kind of active backup scheme. I like the fact that it has to be an external. I'm debating upgrading my MBP HD to a 250 (full install requires 9 gigs...YIKES, but an external drive makes so much sense for backup.

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iChat- The ability to share each other's screen is going to be incredible! You can even go in and work on someone's FCP project. Imagine the possibilities! I wonder how much latency it will have...it might be hard to do something that requires precise timing (ie Video editing). yes, this could really be the killer feature of Leopard- on the demo it was lightning fast, but if it's anything like my experiences with VNC and the like, it will be a disappointment

Updating- the way they make it look is you can install it without having to reformat, effectively keeping all your bookmarks, music, photos, email accounts, etc. Though I always worry about upgrades being buggy. Anyone have any experience with "upgrading" their Mac OS as opposed to doing a fresh install?

This is what it looks like on Leopard when your browse your network with Windows shares.

I wasn't referring to any eye candy- I think it's funny that they have PCs on your network represented as old CRT monitors with the infamous Windows "Blue Screen of Death" lmao

Its pretty but is it more than just eye candy? Are you finding anything that could speed up what you do?