

Age of Empires III - my current time sponge diversion.1Password - 3.0 beta test available with free signup.and my increasing list of things that work:
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Note that I did select Rosetta in the install options. stay tuned, as I will be keeping this up-to-date as third-party vendors catch up with Apple's surprise "early release" of 10.6. The following will be an updated list over the next several days.
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( time +0:42) - Upon login, the "Welcome to Mac OS X" video played, and my registration info was sent to the bean-counters in Cupertino.

(If it does this for more than a half-hour or so, you can begin to panic though.) Let the spinner spin, and go get a cup of coffee to calm your nerves. As Douglas Adams wrote: DON'T PANIC! This is normal, and thinking that you Mac may be hung would be a serious mistake here. Very important – The blue screen with the tine spinning gear may run for quite some time depending on your system.The 12 minutes of spinning gear on blue was somewhat expected, as I have almost 300 GB of stuff on my boot drive - with some applications dating back to far earlier generations of cats including Cheetah and Jaguar. ( time +0:41) - After waiting a more than a few minutes for some "first time in a new room" stuff to happen, I beheld MY login screen sitting nicely on a newer Leopard-esque nebula background image. ( time +0:29) - My MacPro completed the install, and rebooted from my upgraded boot drive. ( time +0:10) - My MacPro rebooted from the DVD to perform the second phase of the install. The 10.6 install process is truly elegant:ġ - Insert the DVD and run the installer from your running 10.5 system.ģ - Wait 10-15 minutes while the necessary components are copied to your boot drive.Ĥ - Restart from the DVD to finish the install, which runs faster because all the installs are happening from your faster hard disk.Insert the DVD and launch the installer, which restarts your system from the DVD to run the installer.Ģ - Select the Install options and start the install.ģ - Wait for 20-30 minutes while the DVD is examined to ensure that everything could be read.Ĥ - Install all the goodies from the DVD.
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