Cupertino (CA) – Apple today said that the latest version of its Mac OS X 10.5 operating system exceeded the launch sales of its predecessor “Tiger”. More than two million copies were delivered to customers over the weekend.

According to the company, “Leopard” has become the most successful OS release in the firm’s history, reaching customers through retail stores, authorized resellers, the company’s online store as well as maintenance agreements. Not surprisingly, CEO Steve Jobs touts the success in a press release issued today.

“Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers,” Jobs was quoted. "Leopard's innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac." According to the manufacturer, the operating system introduces more than 300 new features, including a new backup engine, a redesigned Finder, a file preview tool, as well as a couple new ways to access and manage files and applications.

Leopard sells for $129 with a single-user license and for $199 with a five-user license.

Holding off a bit for our systems.

Oct 30, 2007 10:51     

I am waiting a few more days before I make the upgrades. I will hold off a bit longer on mission critical systems.
RalfTheDog report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

haha apple noobs

Oct 30, 2007 11:16     

please read this article before upgrading, got it off of bit-tech this morning. haven't stopped laughing yet. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/30/leopard_bears_its_teeth_crashes_systems/1 oh goodness, if you are a pc power user like myself, and have taken crap from apple users for years regarding the 'shotty' MS OS then this is quite an interesting day. seriously, i don't mean to sound like i don't have a heart b/c we have all had to deal with software issues, but it seems the that years of bad karma have crashed on the apple'ites' and i can't help but to chuckle a bit. esp when i read some of the apple support forums and hear people talking about leaving the bsod on for hours hoping it would fix itself. hahahahahaha

tom report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

Hehe

Oct 30, 2007 11:29     

As soon as I saw the title I thought of the cat picture with a kitty in a car window screaming: "Holy shit it's a lion! Get in the car!" ...except two million leopards.
ajf report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

could have easily sold double that

Oct 30, 2007 12:03     

if they would just open their system up. Apple says they don't let it run on any hardware because they built the OS for very specific hardware, fine. Give me the list of very specific hardware and let me make sure I have at least that. I am not a fan of apples closed hardware policy, nor a real fan of apple, but an oppurtunity to run both OSx and Vista on the same system is a dream. That I am sure at least 2million other geeks share.

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Two million Leppers!

Oct 30, 2007 12:25     

I'm just about excited enough to iCrap myself with anticipation. Then again I don't even know why Apple releases OS's when they can just stand there and watch vista implode itself.
wmcgritt report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

Keep it up

Oct 30, 2007 12:54     

'cuz if you don't sell more than 100 million a year, people will label you as an unsuccessful OS, like Vista.
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Wait a second

Oct 30, 2007 13:23     

There are 2 million apple users????
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hahaha apple noobs

Oct 30, 2007 13:55     

Tom, that was so frickin hilarious. I can only imagine sitting there for 5 mins. staring at a bsod. It just goes to show you how many stupid computer users there are in this world. Apple has a much harder job then M$FT has ever had. I can only imagine how tech support is going at Apple... being they have at best 6% of the computer market. While you wait on hold we'll play some itunes for you on your iphone. You can count the minutes go by on your iwatch. lol. Gates meanwhile needs stitches, he fell off his chair laughing so hard...... too funny! http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/10/30/leopard_bears_its_teeth_crashes_systems/1

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