Now that's it all properly installed on my mac-mini I feel that it's time for a blog post.



Friday: Leopard Launch Day

I arrived at the Southampton Apple store at about 3pm and joined the queue as soon as it was set up. And I have to say that the queue was a really great social atmosphere and that everyone there was really friendly and I must thank great high wolf from macrumors forums for doing a drinks run. Also, it was really cool that the Apple store employees handed out chocolates and water- it certainly makes a change from many companies launch night arrangements. (I'm looking at you Sony)



Saturday: MacLiveExpo



Due to several thousand football fans and a line closure it took well over an hour and a half on the tubes (mostly packed) to reach the expo. There was some interesting loot to be picked up, namely some nice juggling balls from Konica Minolta- now if everyone did that I wouldn't have been able to get home due to a vast surplus of said juggling balls. There was an interesting showing of Leopard by Apple, which would have been more interesting if I'd seen it prior to launch- but my fears that Time Machine would need a dedicated drive were put to rest. It only needs free space on a not-booted HFS+ journaled disk. There were some very good hardware deals going on at the show, and if you can pick up the early bird free tickets and get a reasonably direct train then it's probably a good idea to buy a mac there. Unless you're taking the tube, then it would be buying a mac for a random stranger on your train.

As for Leopard itself; the new dock (the non-3d one that is) is shiny and Mail is a lot more responsive and powerful, and is now no longer embarrassing to search for emails with.