{"id":1000925,"date":"2007-10-18T07:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/10\/18\/leopard-preorders\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T16:12:31","slug":"leopard-preorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/10\/18\/leopard-preorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Preorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s announced that Max OS X 10.5 Leopard is one sale next Friday, October 26. Amazon seems to have the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=B000FK88JK\/ref=nosim\/cafeaulaitA \"> cheapest price<\/a>: $109 with free supersaver shipping.  However, if you order it direct from Apple for $129, it should arrive on Friday. I&#8217;m cheap so I&#8217;ll probably just wait for it to arrive a few days later from Amazon. I notice items shipped with Super Saver shipping usually arrive faster than the extra 5-9 days they say it will take. I suspect they&#8217;re mostly using the Super Saver as a way to distinguish their most price-sensitive customers. <\/p>\n<p>Although I am looking forward to Leopard (especially Spaces, Time Machine, and the new Address Book and iCal) I may even wait till I buy my next Mac to upgrade. Apple may be releasing new MacBooks or desktops in the next few weeks as well, and if they do I may well buy one. If so, there&#8217;s no big reason to pay $109 for an OS upgrade for a machine I&#8217;m replacing soon anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I do wish Apple would include the new version of iPhoto with the OS. GarageBand, iDVD, and iMovie I can live without, but iPhoto&#8217;s pretty important to me, and my version&#8217;s getting a bit old in the tooth. I&#8217;m not sure where I got it: with one system or OS upgrade or another. I can&#8217;t keep track of what&#8217;s bundled with what these days, and it&#8217;s always a pain when you have to wipe a disk clean or transfer files to a new computer and then discover some of what you thought were bundled apps are now missing. Then again I may be outgrowing iPhoto. It may be time to look into Aperture or Adobe Lightroom instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s announced that Max OS X 10.5 Leopard is one sale next Friday, October 26. Amazon seems to have the cheapest price: $109 with free supersaver shipping. However, if you order it direct from Apple for $129, it should arrive on Friday. I&#8217;m cheap so I&#8217;ll probably just wait for it to arrive a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}