Waiting in the Leopard-Line

Apple released the newest version of their OS X operating system yesterday. Named “Leopard”, it contains many interesting and useful features.

This article on Engadget does a pretty good job of summarizing. I’m most interested in Time Machine (for backups) and Spaces.

The line was about 100 strong when we got there, and rapidly added another 100 or more after we arrived. Lauren loved waiting.

It actually wasn’t bad. The line moved very quickly, and she had fun looking in the windows of the stores (many of which had Halloween items on display.)

Interesting to me was the number of computers being sold. People were streaming in and out of the store to pick up Leopard, but many also had large computer boxes in tow. I guess some people were waiting for the Leopard release to pull the trigger on their desktop/laptop purchase.

Best Buy has dozens of boxes of Leopard for sale, but the Apple store had FREE T-SHIRTS, and we obtained 2.

Later that night I upgraded my Mac Pro, and the process took about 45 minutes. One thing of interest so far – I had to turn off FileVault security in order for Time Machine to work. Leopard uses a different version of FileVault that is incompatible to a degree.