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Hey readers! Glad you’ve taken the time to read my post! So sorry that I’ve left my blog to rot for a bit.. Just been busy!!

Tiger: 2005, Leopard: 2007, Snow Leopard: 2009.

I love Apple and am a die hard fan! When they release something, my wallet wants to shrivel like a dumpling. But, I really don’t care what the wallet wants Basically it was available for Pre-Order on Monday night (the night before my birthday) so naturally I jumped and bought the family pack!! Cut a long story short, yesterday came. Delivery day. My copy was on the truck and I waited for it to arrive. I waited and waited. Then I got shitty so I called TNT. Turns out that they brought it back to the depot because the driver’s shift was over. I was extremely pissed off with TNT because this is the 3rd time that it’s actually happened. I highly recommend FedEx. I love them. I’ve imported several Macbook’s for myself and family using that shipping service. Never any issues.. Anyway, I called a friend – Adam who works at an Apple Re-seller and he brought me a single user copy. The copy that will arrive on Monday I’ll likely just sell it on Ebay.

Because I’m such a die hard fan I hopped on the train to go home and I installed it. Snow Leopard’s installer is very weird. All other OSX installations have been very very simple. I did not clean instal, instead I just archived & installed. My Macbook Pro was a mess so I pretty much copied over all of my files to en external drive and re-installed 10.6, this time clean installing. The clean install option was a little hard to find but I eventually figured out how to erase the contents on the HD. I used Disk Utility when I installed the OSX disk. Basically I restated the computer holding the ‘C’ key. I waited for the installer to open up. It did and I found that there was an option to open disk utility. I opened it, selected my Mac partition, erased it, then closed disk utility and ran the installation wizard normally. Everything was smooth! I was disappointed when it came to the end of the installation because the Snow Leopard introduction video was the same as the Leopard intro video. I’m guessing Steve needed to cut back on video costs. Stupid recession *Shakes Fist*

I found no bugs after the re-installation apart from stupid Mail v4. I hate it. I really want v3 back until it starts reading the emails that I placed in OSX’s library folder from when I had leopard on my Mac..

Apart from that little annoying little stupid bug everything is cool! I love leopard. It is well worth the upgrade!!

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