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The article “Leopard” over at DaringFireball.net is a nice over view of the new OS X Leopard.

My nutshell take is this: I’ve been using Leopard full-time for about three months, and there’s no question it’s a worthy update. Is 10.5.0 truly ready for production use, or would most users be better off waiting for 10.5.1? We’ll see. No one ever got hurt by waiting a week or two to install a new OS. But there’s no question that most of the new features and changes in Leopard are winners. There are some turds, too, but the ratio of improvements-to-regressions is pretty high by my score.

OS X Leopard is out!!! Engadget has been collecting impressions of the new OS in their article “All about Leopard: gallery, apps, impressions”

Install was pretty painless. A few clicks and you’re off. It took just under an hour (58 minutes, to be exact) to do its thing, despite the installer claiming it would be a 3-4 hour upgrade for our stock MacBook Pro.

For old school users: installing the barebones OS onto a G4 Power Mac’s freshly formated disk took just 20 minutes.

The install chewed up a good 3.3GB of space on top of what was already there. Apple recommends a solid 9GB, so be prepared if you’re constantly low on space like us.