Leopard available for pre-ordering
Oct 16, 2007, 8:20 am
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Leopard available for pre-ordering
Apple OS X "Leopard" is now available for pre-ordering on the Apple Store. Looks like it should come out on the 26th of this month. ^
Oct 16, 2007, 12:47 pm
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The question I have to ask myself is do I feel lucky? Do I have the time and patience to go through another operating system upgrade?
Granted all my past experiences have been with Windows, but the pain is still very real....
Granted all my past experiences have been with Windows, but the pain is still very real....
Oct 16, 2007, 3:16 pm
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^ Very much looking forward to this! I placed my order this afternoon
Having done many Mac OS upgrades on my own machines over the years I can tell you that you have nothing to worry about. Mac OS upgrades typically go very smoothly!
Having done many Mac OS upgrades on my own machines over the years I can tell you that you have nothing to worry about. Mac OS upgrades typically go very smoothly!
Oct 16, 2007, 4:31 pm
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What would be the benefit to pre-ordering? I doubt there is a discount.
The current OS is pretty robust, so I can't imagine why anyone would rush to the next one. Better to wait a few months until all the bugs are fixed.
The current OS is pretty robust, so I can't imagine why anyone would rush to the next one. Better to wait a few months until all the bugs are fixed.
Oct 16, 2007, 4:42 pm
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Oct 16, 2007, 5:23 pm
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Quick Look and Time Machine look like great ideas. Time Machine backs up your Mac every hour as long as the Mac is connected to the back up harddrive. You can go back and see what your Mac looked like at any previous hour. Of course eventually you'll have yet another full hard drive.
Quick look lets you look at files without opening them. It's a faster way to find stuff.
Quick look lets you look at files without opening them. It's a faster way to find stuff.
Oct 17, 2007, 8:39 am
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For those interested, here's the features list: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
Oct 17, 2007, 12:37 pm
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Discounts can be found on the interwebs.
Amazon and Macmall offer a 20$ discount, free ship. Not guaranteed to arrive on Friday, although amazon DOES have a tendency to offer books on their release date to arrive ontime.
As for the Leopard OS. one of the nicest new features, is the ability to control, show screen and share screens from local to remote macs. In essense, remote desktop sharing. This has not been a standard EASY feature of the past os's, the underlying technical VNC infrastruture has been there, but apple always charged 179$+ to get the client applications.
Third parties have offered a similar FREE solution for a while now, but it wasn't perfect or optimized for mac to mac os usage.
For the 129$, or 109$ of the upgrade this will be a real benefit for me.
Amazon and Macmall offer a 20$ discount, free ship. Not guaranteed to arrive on Friday, although amazon DOES have a tendency to offer books on their release date to arrive ontime.
As for the Leopard OS. one of the nicest new features, is the ability to control, show screen and share screens from local to remote macs. In essense, remote desktop sharing. This has not been a standard EASY feature of the past os's, the underlying technical VNC infrastruture has been there, but apple always charged 179$+ to get the client applications.
Third parties have offered a similar FREE solution for a while now, but it wasn't perfect or optimized for mac to mac os usage.
For the 129$, or 109$ of the upgrade this will be a real benefit for me.
Oct 17, 2007, 3:32 pm
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Education price for Leopard at the university where I work (Northwestern) is $69 on university purchase orders, and free shipping. I ordered 10 copies this morning for my staff, off of our customized Apple web site.
Education discounts for Apple products sometime vary from one institution to another.
Education discounts for Apple products sometime vary from one institution to another.
Oct 17, 2007, 3:36 pm
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Education price for Leopard at the university where I work (Northwestern) is $69 on university purchase orders, and free shipping. I ordered 10 copies this morning for my staff, off of our customized Apple web site.
Education discounts for Apple products sometime vary from one institution to another.
Education discounts for Apple products sometime vary from one institution to another.