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I picked up my copy from the new Apple Store in Lakeside shopping mall, Essex.  It opened last week and it’s quite nicely laid out, it’s about the same size as the Bluewater store.

The estate agent looking young guy who served me said no free t-shirt for me (boo!) as I was too late at 6:30pm, the queue outside the store for 6pm had been halfway down the mall apparently. (and processed that quickly, hmm, me smells something, that would be 500 people processed in under 30 minutes, I very much doubt it…).

My first impressions after doing a fresh install on my iMac G5:

• The new dock does not indicate very clearly which applications are running. The old little black arrows were far easier to see than the new faint blue circles.
• I’m hating the transparent menu bar. Why on earth would I need it to be transparent??? I hope someone develops a hack to change it back to solid.
• I recently reinstalled Tiger on my iMac G5 and yet this fresh install of Leopard *seems* faster…
• Mail finally has an option to display the number of unread messages in *all folders* in the dock icon message count. Thank goodness, that’s been bugging me for years…
• Some apps finally recognise the dock and don’t let you resize them to cover it, which is great. Mail and Safari both behave this way. iTunes does not. How annoying.
• The new folder icons look even worse than the old ones which I didn’t think was possible…
• The new welcome sequence is very snazzy. Like it!
• Apple seem to be overdoing the flying through space bit. It’s the default desktop background and looks too busy and tacky imho…
• The new screensavers are nothing to write home about.

And some bugs maybe?

So far the repair disk permission in disk utility seems to do nothing on my machine. It just sits there saying “repairing permissions”..

The Mail app synced my work IMAP account inbox and created two expandable items in the folders list on the left both called “on my mac” and both containing an outbox. Quitting and restarting mail got rid of the “on my mac” entries and caused it to download my mail folders from my server.

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