Leopard!

Around noon on release day the FedEx truck pulled up, delivering the little brown box that contained Leopard.

I had spent earlier that morning running the Apple Backup - backing up all my data 2 and 3 times, not to mention I have the original 120 gb hdd loaded with Tiger still sitting in the corner. So one way or another I was backed up and ready to go.

The upgrade went well and painless - no issues. The only annoyance I had was at the beginning when I thought it was upgrading only to realize after 20 mins it was still verifying my DVD. But that is my only complaint - so really everything else went smooth.

I have to say I like leopard - as an IT person though I have to say, it's not that huge of an improvement. It's not like jumping from windows 98 to XP, there aren't that many core changes. But the OS is beautiful, responsive and so far - stable.

You can't really blame Apple, Microsoft or anyone else at this point - we are beyond the basic needs of an operating system. Now it really is about add ons and eye candy.