Thanks to my work, I got to be an early adopter of Leopard (AKA: OS X 10.5), Apple’s new state of the art, benchmark setting operating system. And let me tell you, it is pretty impressive. Everything I have done is faster than before, which is nice, as many ‘other’ operating system upgrades use more of your computers resources than before and slow things down a bit. I have already tested After Effects & Photoshop in Leopard and both ran smoothly after my archive & install. (Interesting in itself b/c according to Applecare, I would have to reinstall most third party software.) Why did I talk to Applecare you ask? That leads to the first three hours, where my screen looked like this after my upgrade installation.It was nothing 30 minutes on hold with Applecare couldn’t fix though. A simple reboot to the DVD and ‘disk repair’ verified that the MacBook Pro was fine and that it was indeed the ‘netinfo manager’ that had been corrupted during install. This is the database file that brings you your login screen (or something like that), which, as you can see in the picture, I didn’t quite ever make it to. Apparently, I was not the only guy in the States with this issue yesterday, Google “leopard blue screen install,” go ahead, haha. Also, an after hours call to Applecare revealed that they staffed it heavily after hours for tech support choice 1 on the phone: Leopard. To my dismay, Jared (my Applecare guy, not the Subway guy) recommended an archive & install to skirt the issue. The dismay part was because I was told that I would have to reinstall my third party apps. I don’t know about you, but installing Adobe CS3 Extended, After Effects CS3, Microsoft Office and everything else does not make for a happy day at the office, not to mention that it would take most of the day. I am pleased to report that so far, every App that I have tried to open has worked, including CS3 and Office, with no reinstalls or updating or anything. They were right on the dock were I left them. Maybe this post will help someone els skirt the problem, if they have the ability to get on another computer when theirs locks down, haha. Or maybe they will read it first here, since this is one of the hottest blogs on the web.Anyone else have any interesting update experiences.

-Travis