I was there , but the camera passed so quicly i could not even see myself. man i was like 70º put Yhe bill siad i Paid for the Os on 6:09 which was fas very fast.

tell the truth I just wente there to get a free shirt..

Man did you tape the guy with leopard pants??

Jeremias

Yeah, tools, just like the hundreds and thousands of people who lined up to buy Halo 3 the other day. Can you imagine? For a silly game no less!

dearhaw

LOL, i pre-ordrerd mine, got it at 10AM and didn't have to wait in any lines.

Joseph

haha one word: tools

theorie

Ordered on Amazon with the discount. I don't care if it arrives in 5 days (w/ free shipping) by then I will hear about all the problems and can decide if I will install it or wait for the patches to come out.

larry91403

Don't they know you can just pirate it? It doesn't require a serial or any activation...

empreality

What a parade of mindless drones. Order it online people. Having it tonight will not improve your miserable existences THAT much.

Douchebagus Maximus

They were probably there for those shirts. Nothing like free with something you buy!

themightykorean

I live two blocks from the Soho store, I ordered online, I got it at three, WTF would you wait in line...I guess they are all just Fanboys...and trust me, the lines will be huge tomorrow...

Chalkperson

Leopard's don't have lines, they have spots.

You're thinking of tigers.

92BuickLeSabre

I bet you can walk into an apple store tomorrow and buy a copy of leopard without having to wait through these long lines.

IAMDUDE70

It's an F#$@in' OS people.....

slaughter

Maybe these are all people with a $100 iphone rebate burning a hole in their pocket.

phuzzy

Gee it looks like you morons haven't learned your lesson yet.... Bend over fanboys

applebasher

@jschulman1591:

yeah you got benifits, not waiting in line, i got some new friends. I mean Wainting in line is always worth.

fo exemple: I stood in line for a hour, in that period of time like 10 people come to ask me or one my new frins , "what we are waiting for", by the time the 5º person came, We decide to answer with the " We are waiting for bathroom"

Man the person just Furious with that...

Jeremias

hrm...........I preordered online. Benefits:

1. Didn't have to stand in the rain
2. Got it by the time i got out of class at 2:30
3. Didn't have to wait on line, whcih I would have gotten AFTER what i got it now

did I mention that i didn't have to wait on line?

jschulman1591

@larry91403:

If you have Adode CS3 "generic" you won't be able to install with the old path, you need a new one, good news, Photosho path is ready. just look in the "genric" store.

Jeremias

The blue screen's probably due to incompatible login or startup items starting at the desktop, before everything else loads. They just need to Safe Boot (start up with the shift key down), go into the Accounts system prefs, remove any 3rd party items from the list and reboot normally, and it should work.

middlelurch

I've got my copy this morning, Was installed after 7pm.
But we are talking about fans err... new yorker fans, wait they are nyc apple fans.

I wonder what is worse. that or paris hilton's after-sex new apple commercial of her in bed with a large red play-Doh bunny in bed, inside the NYC apple store announcing the new mac os. That would be disastrous.

dysthymia

all you early adopter nubs waiting in the rain....lol.
i just got halo 3 and my halo edition 360....about a month after halo fever. no waiting, no camping out, just instant gratification. if OS X ran on generic hardware, i'd be waiting a month for leapord right now...but apple has to go and lock their (almost perfect) software down to their (really overpriced) hardware.

rimplestultskin

The Leopard experience:
Hours in line.
Hours installing.
Blue screen of death.

[digg.com]

phoomp

Wouldn't it be a hoot if Apple dropped the price of this thing $50 on black Friday?

homerjay

I walked into a CompUSA store at 6:00pm. Had a clerk get me a copy out of lockup and was out at 6:03PM. Store was dead. What's really nice is that they have a $30 online rebate, but you had to buy the OS from them tonight.
($100 + No waiting = hurrah)

Took me 1.5 hours to install. From insertion of disk, to final reboot. (Would've taken 1hr, but I let it perform a checkdisk on the DVD.)

vagrant

hmm...I meant photobooth, whoops :I

retlawmacpro

Speaking of iphoto effects...DOES ANYBODY"S HARDLY WORK LIKE MINE!? I MEAN F*CK!

retlawmacpro

So much hate - why do you Bill Boys feel so threatened that you have to attack people who are obviously happy to buy their new OS?

Seriously - get a life!

MINI-Driver

Its a f*#king upgrade of the OS! Seriously you can wait a week and get it online its not that necessary!

daftrok

Why all the hating? I live a few blocks from the Soho store, so I walked over to get a copy of Leopard at 6PM. There was a line, but it was like 10 minutes or so. Just because you were in the line doesn't mean you're a mindless drone or clueless fanboy. Who did it hurt that I stood in a line for a few minutes? Not me, and not you. Yeah, I could have waited and ordered online, but I lost like 30 minutes on this.

I guess to some of you getting to an Apple store is some sort of adventure, but, hell, I've waited in line for groceries for longer than that.

isayisay

Uhh... yea I was too busy getting drunk in Queens because I have better things to do.

Trowble

Could you imagine this for Vista?

TimurY

Hell I'm an Apple fanboy and I didn't get it tonight. Though I did go to the MacPac (an independent apple store in Portland) for the launch. Everybody was drinking beer and eating pizza and having a good time, all the while I kept trying to imagine people doing this for a Microsoft os launch.

Jonathan21

It is fun folks! If you have ever stood in line for something you were really excited to get like a Wii or Halo 3, or even a PS3. If you are, ahem, a little older than most, you feel like a kid again. Given how jaded people become, at younger and younger ages, those moments come further and further apart.

sgrmba

This wouldn't happen for an MS launch because Windoze users know that it's just an OS. It's not life changing. And you still can't play games. I just looked at the 300 new features on the Apple website....looks like a Vista type upgrade to me. How exciting....nerds.

slaughter

My one question... anyone see Greg Packer?

Dirk

i want to protest against the new folder-icons. they look soooooooo ugly! can we get together and tell steve to change it?

bodypainter

@sgrmba: i only wait in line for limited edition things. as beautiful as OS X is, i wouldn't want to sit in the rain just to be the first kid on the block running leopard.

rimplestultskin

in response to mini-driver:

just because i think apple fanboys are tools, doesn't mean i am a "bill fanboy".

i wouldn't wait in line to buy any product, apple or microsoft. it's just the same old shit with a couple of new features, that in reality don't do much to increase productivity. most of the ideas for the features are based on apps developed by 3rd parties, that apple then makes them their own and sells them as "revolutionary"!

theorie

Free stuff would be the only reason I'd do a launch pickup of something other than a console, and then only because consoles routinely sell out fast.

The line was probably because of the immense amount of people that NY has, and there probably wont be many "other lines" at all.

Scuba Steve

Giz is really "APPLE" and cater to the "I" fanboyz! How crazy is that, some nut jobs always make news.

Blue_Mountain

Back when Tiger was launched the Apple stores had a store-wide discount and lots of door prizes (I won an iPod). Don't know if they did the same for Leopard but sometimes it's worth an Apple store visit on launch days.

nocar

I don't have a Mac, but given this, I'm assuming it's not possible to download the new OSX updates. Is that really the case? If so, that's laughable considering that's been possible in Linux for at least a decade.

Nelsormensch

@Nelsormensch:

Yeah! And it's laughable that OSX isn't completely free, too, considering Linux has been free since its inception.

dearhaw

@slaughter:

seriously. Its just an upgrade. Its not like its iphone 5.0

pixelprogression

I guess that's why ny is called the big apple...

yok

Retarded. I bought mine at the Apple store in Tyson's Corner (VA) 5 minutes to close and there was no line and plenty of copies left.

robo

@RIMPLESTULTSKIN
dude, if you cannot afford it, don't buy it (get a dell).

@NELSORMENSCH
apt-get install leopard
...did work on my mac.

@DEARHAW
hahaha. lovin' it

krom23