Checking out Time Machine and my PowerBook takes a Leopard road trip, with some disappointing battery charge issues.

Leopard looks great and has some cool feature enhancements, but it's taking a productivity toll and proving as buggy as a flophouse mattress, begging the question: "What are OS Upgrades For, Anyway?

Cross-border shopping not necessarily cheaper and you have to be patient.... but Leopard was worth the wait I think

Nothing broke, and even Safari 3.0.4, which some upgraders have reported issues with, is working very nicely, and with a substantial speed improvement over version 2.0.4. It flies, and may well now be the fastest OS X browser on some sites

Now incorporates Safari 3; Panther Security Update also posted

Not dead yet for Tiger holdouts

Cross-border shopping is great, until everybody starts doing it

With a major system upgrade like Leopard, there is a case to be made for doing a clean install from scratch, but with some advance preparation and system-cleanup beforehand, a prospects for a successful upgrade of your existing Tiger installation will be maximized, with obvious advantages in time-economy

Pre-order Leopard deals from Amazon.com, cross-border OS shopping workaround, more on the Classic Mode abandonment dilemma, and hopes for more efficient memory management in OS 10.5

I guess the end of the road had to come eventually, but I didn't expect it to arrive this soon

Apple has posted a list of Intel Mac models that will be officially supported by Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. For some reason, qualifying PowerPC models have been excluded from mention

Here's one that I'd never heard of before