I re-installed all the software I use, restored all my documents, pictures, music, video etc. I then blanked my hard drive, installed Leopard and after about half an hour was up and running. This was done by backing up my entire hard drive with SuperDuper! (and taking a couple of copies for good measure). Well the news is – there is no news! I decided to do a clean install and back up everything first. So now for the interesting bit – my first Mac OS upgrade! I put my order in and it turned up a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately Apple pre-empted this and came up with the Mac Box Set containing iLife 09, iWork 09 and Leopard for the bargain price of £149. This time iLife 09 actually required Mac OS X Leopard which meant if I were to upgrade I’d need to bite the bullet and install Leopard, making it quite an expensive endeavour. I’m a big fan of Apple’s iLife and iWork suites and they generally release a new version every year. I loved the existing version – ‘ Tiger‘ – and didn’t see any compelling reason to shell out £89 to get the new version knowing the inevitable hassle of either rebuilding or upgrading my computer (well, in the Windows world at least) so I was content to stay put. I read about how amazing it was and all the incredible new features but to be honest wasn’t really in a rush to upgrade. Six months after I bought my MacBook Apple released a new version of their operating system called ‘ Leopard‘. My initial impressions of how easy to use Macs are, how the software allows you to be creative, how fast, reliable and fun they are and a whole bunch of other clichés Mac users go on about has turned out to be completely true! In many ways it seems like it was just yesterday but it also feels like I’ve been a Mac fanboy forever. I can’t believe it’s been nearly 2 years since I became a Mac user.
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