Happy Leopard Launch Day

It's the Apple fan's equivalent of Christmas Eve in October. Apple's countdown clock is now measuring hours, not days, until the official launch of Mac OS X 10.5. We're doing our final full disk backup before the upgrade here (Never do an upgrade without a full backup to retreat to lest you offend the upgrade gods.), and we're expecting our Family Pack coming from the Apple Store here by 10:30 am. So for us, Apple's countdown clock is running about 8 hours slow.

I'll spare you my rendition of "The Night Before Leopard" (although I am tempted to call out "Now Spotlight, Now QuickLook, Now Spaces and Boot Camp; On Time Machine! On Boot Camp! On, Back To My Mac!" Note to Apple: for next year, we need at least two major Mac OS X features to rhyme.), but I hope those who are upgrading have a great day or evening. For everyone else, just tune out and watch the stock market or the World Series or something, because all your Mac user friends are going to be complete bores for a while. But hey, at least it's a Friday.

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