The pains of installing Leopard

Darius Chang | Oct 31, 2007

After much anticipation for the latest Mac OS X to date, some users who tried to upgrade their Apple machines are experiencing an unpleasant flashback of Windows BSOD (blue screen of death).

Our colleague over at News.com reported that some Leopard installations freeze at the initial screen (whose background happens to be blue). Though Computerworld speculated that the troublemaker was Unsanity's APE software, a thread in Apple Support Forum seems to indicate that those who never even touched the aforementioned application is also experiencing installation problems.

The best solution offered by Apple so far is to use the Archive and Install feature to get rid of the offending software, though more advanced users can use the command-line interface as well.

We have contacted Apple Asia regarding this installation issue but they do not have a comment at this point in time. They did, however, suggest that users experiencing the issue should click on this link for technical support.

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