Since releasing Mac OS X Leopard on Friday, Apple sold (or delivered, in the case of maintenance agreements) more than 2 million copies of the sixth major release of Mac OS X, far outpacing the first weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger, which was previously the most successful OS release in Apple’s history. “Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Leopard’s innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac.” [Oct 30, 2007. News from Apple]

AAPL hit 52-week All-Time high of 189.37 at 14:00 Hrs. (EDT) on Oct 30, 2007.

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Lepers! Lepers! 300+ new features to unleash your Mac. "Take My Advice, Get "Leper" Now! Or We Dine In Hell Tonight!", said Spartan King Leonidas of the ancient Greek legend in the Persian War Battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

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Today, Apple officially releases Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Hong Kong Retail Price: HK$1,000.

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Countdown the Snow Leopard, less than 6 hours to go.

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Don't Panic! The snow leopard is still alive. Someone from Apple Campus sent me the screen shots of true Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Retail Version.

Let's take a closer look...


Full screen view with gorgeous Aurora Desktop Background picture.



Leopard in Mac Pro, powered by Intel QC Xeon 2 x 2.66 GHz CPU, hefty stuffed with 16 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory Modules. I have no words.



Picture shown gear-up with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 display card, 512MB video memory, of course.



Fabulous 3-D Dock with Aqua effects.



Cover-Flow browsing at Finder's level, a look alike of iTunes viewing style. A useful smart feature for photographer to preview tons of photos swiftly.


P.S. Many thanks, Dude!

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15 Hours & 30 Minutes left and counting, Leopard on its way to the public. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please welcome the fabulous Leopard!

ETA on October 26, 2007. (Friday, 06:00 Hours EDT)

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard finally off the cage on October 26, 2007. With 300+ features to unleash the power of your Mac.

Retail Price: US$129 (HK$1,000)

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Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. LEOPARD is officially recognized and conformed of UNIX 03 Product Standard. In simple term, Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 version operating system is a true Unix platform.

Details can be further obtained from Open Group.

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Would it be the OS X 10.5 the "Snow Leopard"?

The original Apple Statement [Apr 12, 2007]

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.

However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.

While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones.

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Symantec reported that Mac OS X is being threatened by a virus named OSX.Macarena, discovered on November 02, 2006.

OSX.Macarena is categorized as a low wild-level virus, that considered at Risk Level 1 Threat Assessment. Number of Infections is limited and Geographical Distribution still at a low spread situation.

The OSX.Macarena appends itself to files in the current directory on the compromised computer, in which the virus duplicates itself to affect the system at a mild damage.

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