Leopard arrived, and phase one complete!

[viktor_haag]

This morning, I received my new copy of Leopard. As a result my machine at work has now been upgraded. The process was remarkably painless (so far, knock on wood). Even restoring my roll-my-own email system to get it working with the local corporate net was quick and painless. However, an eye on the system's console logs leads me to be a bit concerned that Leopard's method of dealing with postfix is substantially different than Tiger, and this may cause me some head-aches. We shall see.

My impressions so far? Well, two things, really.

Overall, the system seems snappier, smoother, and there are little improvements noticeable everywhere (as was advertised).

The new Dock, however? Well, I must say I'm not a fan. The new "drawer" notion is cool enough, but I find it quit stoopid that it sticks the (alphabetically) first icon found inside a folder on top of the folder icon that's now a drawer. Feh. I shall have to see if I can do something about that.

But (again, I cross my fingers), this has been the easiest OS upgrade I've ever done, and I should be able to leave the office at the "usual time" without staying on into the evening. Whee!

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[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

After work, I drove down to McMaster University to visit the campus computer store (located inside the bookstore).

There was a sign on the door announcing line-ups for purchasing OSX Leopard would start at 6 pm, and I was there by 6:20.

Inside the store I was told by a fellow working there "Sorry, the store is closed except for those shopping in the computer section wanting Mac Leopard."

"That's what I'm here for!" I said brightly.

"Here you go!" he said, handing my a small shiny square piece of paper with a photo of the Mac OS X Leopard box art and the number 48 in the corner.

"What's that?"

"It's a rain check. We're all sold out."

"What! When will you be getting them back in stock?"

"Maybe Monday?"

"Grrrrr!"

::B::

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I ordered mine through my company's Apple Store discount page. Apple sent it out so that it would arrive to me on the appropriate day. No line ups, slight cost break (same as educational pricing, I believe), and all I had to do was pick it up from the company mail room. Nice.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

The upgrade to Vista, BTW, was actually pretty painless. I didn't upgrade an existing install, though -- I did a clean setup, then migrated my settings in using a tool provided on the Vista disk. I've avoided doing migration upgrades on principle, because it's always nice to have an excuse to begin from scratch.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Yeah; my method has been "archive and install", which is essentially what you've done. The installer moves the old system out of the way, installs the new one, and preserves your user settings and network details (and also, apparently, any LaunchDaemon processes you've created).

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

Yup. The one thing I had to be mindful of was to install any mission-critical apps on the new machine first before migrating data (in this case, MS Office).