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I purchased my spanking new copy of Leopard today.I say purchased its more of a pre-order, and i’ll get it when i get it. This is pretty clever by Apple, build lots of hype, get everybody to pre-order and then leave them gagging for it. As if thats not bad enough the postal strike in the U.K could see me waiting well into November to install Leopard. I checked out a few American sites (including Amazon) and they all seem to think Leopard is out on the 31st, while the officicial Apple site is saying the 26th. Either way I can’t wait. My Windows machine is also no more as of Thursday as I am about to install the new Ubuntu Release. Finally Windows is out of my life (well almost, I still have to put up with it at work). Forget browsing the web for porn, sorry art, and instead head over here. I have had many hours of ‘joy’ reading up about Leopard. My appetite is well and truly wet soaked now! Just for info these are the minimum requirements for Leopard:

• Intel, G5, or 867MHz+ G4 processor
• 512MB of RAM
• DVD drive
• 9GB of free disk space

In addition some features have further requirements:

• Time Machine requires a hard drive in addition to your boot disk (external or internal is fine)
• Photo Booth requires a camera and a processor better than a G4.
• Screensharing requires a speeding net connection (300 Kbps is Apple’s recommendation)
• DVD player requires a 1.6GHz or better for de-interlacing

Probably the best feature is that I don’t need any fancy graphics card updates, extra RAM or anything to run Leopard on my machine (cough cough Vista)!