Leopard Installation Notes and First Impressions

This is not a full review... not even a mini review. I just wanted to post a note to say that I've now updated three Macs to 10.5 Leopard and all without a hiccup. Two of them were Archive and Installs and one was a wipe and install. I'm not at all surprised as I've installed everything from OS X Public Beta through 10.5 on my own Macs and many different versions on Macs owned by friends, family, and clients. Never a problem.

Now, as for first impressions. Let me just say that I am impressed! Time Machine set-up and first back-up went perfectly. I backed-up my MacBook Pro to a firewire drive attached to my Mac Mini so it took all night over the network but all seems well. Each update after that should be simple incremental updates and should not take long at all. Safari, Mail, iCal, iChat are all performing perfectly. Screen sharing and file sharing are excellent. Front Row is a fantastic improvement especially on the Mac Mini which is my iTunes music/movie server and is connected to a television. Front Row 2.0 is much faster and smoother than the first iteration!

That's it for now. I've got more exploring to do!

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