I have been looking forward to OSX Leopard for ages, the launch was delayed by Apple earlier this year which annoyed lots of Mac users including myself.

The installation was simple on my Macbook pro, it took about a hour to do all it’s stuff but in fairness most of that time was in the installer verifying the system prior to actually doing the update.

It’s not all good news though, my gmail email stopped working the moment the upgrade was complete.  I read online that a few others were having similar issues so I simply started using my mac.com email address and redirected my gmail so that I do not lose any mail.  I was going to do that anyway and was waiting for a good time to do it.

Overall it’s a great OS, and in particular I like the Time Machine backup bit.  I’m a huge  fan of backup, on the principle that every hard drive fails in the end and lots of my data is really important to me.  I bought a big 320gb external drive to use with Time Machine, but that’s the subject of a different post.

I will write about Leopard again when I have been using it a while.

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