Leopard Japan Launch

And just what does this idol Mihato Ise have to do with the Leopard launch last Friday?

Mihato was part of the leopard launch festivities at Yodobashi Camera in Akiba. She must have had a shock as only 30 people lined up for their copy ^^;

But I dont think she had as much of a shock as the folks at Bic Camera in Yurakucho. You may remember the Wii launch at Bic Camera last year where hundreds lined up.
Compared to that, Leopard managed to get a total of 4 (!) people to line up. As you can see from some of these pics, Bic Camera went out of their way to make the launch look good. In this case we say to the organizers at Bic Camera in Fist of the North Star style - "You Wa Shock!"

Below: Multi tasking desktops with the new Spaces feature. Below: Ready to greet the small batch of Leopard buyers. Below: A whole itinerary of events! Below: The guy needs a mega phone to shout at 3 people. Below: The extra people are probably people on the way to the station and staff.
This reminds me of the Vista launch where Microsoft tried to get as many employees as possible to attend the launch ^^; Below: At least Mihato was cute - me likes chubby round faces. Below: The first 130 people in line got to get a Leopard T-shirt - but only 30 people lined up at Yodobashi ^^; Below: The Apple store in Ginza was a different story - about 350 people waited in the rain. Below: I was going to go in Vader armor but despite being a sith lord - his weak spot is rain ^^; Staff - "Who wants a slap in the face?"
Crowd - "Meeee!" I've installed Leopard on my old MacBook. Crashes when using my existing account (tested the install with upgrade instead of clean) but works ok with a root account.

After playing about with it for a few hours, I've come to the conclusion that Apple should hire people who worked on Explorer away from Microsoft as Explorer still kicks Finders booty.

The most disappointing thing is that Finder doesn't generate thumbnail views of whats inside a folder - something that Explorer does well.

Am in no rush to upgrade my MacBook Pro as Leopard comes with Apache 2 and PHP5 which will mess up my localhost dev environment.

All pics from Impress.