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We here I am writing this blog on on my new Leopard powered Macbook. Last night I was number 17 in line out of about 100 people to purchase my copy, the good news the half the people in line wanted the 5 license family pack so the line was cut in half after about 1 minute. 1st impression was the nice box it comes in, very impressive, and I also got a free 1500 yen iTunes card. やった！

So goddies in hand, home I went. I elected to do the easy upgrade and after about a 1 hour upgrade I immediately found issues. So I decided to mess around with OS X 10.5 Leopard some more and go for a clean install in the morning. The morning came and I formatted my disk and did a clean install. The clean install made a huge difference and I was able to run everything without any issues. I also installed my new copy of iLife 2008 and vmware fusion. I have selected vmware fusion for my virtual machine platform as it supports 64bit Virtual OS installs, so I will go and buy Vista64 Ultimate next week. I currently have winxp pro installed and humming along nicely. So far I am very happy with the performance and look and feel. Well done for another great version of Mac OS X. Should keep all the Mac heads happy for another 12-18 months.

Now just need to slip back down the road and get my iPod touch and see how that goes. I have heard and read of the negative black issue and that the screen rendering isn’t as good as the iPhone yet, hopefully it’s a firmware upgrade fix so I may hold of for a few weeks until Apple get that sorted. More to come as I give Leopard a good workout. Tomorrow I’m of to Nikko so hopefully some nice pics will find their way onto the blog. If only this Typhoon will stop so I get a nice day…..

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