One of the joys of the new Leopard operating system is that it supports huge 512 pixel icons. Of course, this means you can now 'zoom in' on your favourite application icons for a closer look.

One thing I've always wanted to know is exactly what it says on that Text Edit icon. Well, thanks to Leopard we can now see the text:

This Mr Appleseed sounds like a bit of a rebel. But who is the mysterious Kate?

Apple has sold 2 million copies of Leopard in it's first week - that's huge!

“Early indications are that Leopard will be a huge hit with customers,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Leopard’s innovative features are getting great reviews and making more people than ever think about switching to the Mac.”

But cut through the fanfair for a moment. I'd like to know what your experience of installng Leopard has been like. So far mine isn't great. New iMac - no problem. Old G4 - uh oh...

You need 9GB of free space to install Leopard. I only had 3GB free on the G4, with its tiny hard drive. So, I spent about half an hour deleting stuff I could live without, leaving me with 12GB free. After choosing to "upgrade" rather than do a clean install all I got was a blue screen once it rebooted, which has become known as "the Leopard Blue Screen of Pause" in tribute to the Windows Blue Screen of Death.

Ok, some people say you can wait it out and other say they've spent hours waiting for it to un-pause. Looking on the Apple site it recommends you install again and choose 'Archive and Install' instead of 'Upgrade' if this happens to you.

I wait 10 mintues looking at the blue screen, decide it's knackered, and reboot. Hey Apple, are you sure you didn't rush this thing out to hit a deadline?

To get out of this blue screen the only thing to do is to hold down the power button on the Mac for a few seconds. Once it reboots you hold down the C key on the keyboard, which boots your Mac from the DVD drive.

I tried to select Archive and Install this time, but the Leopard installation told me I hadn't got enough free space left on my hard drive to do this (after the first install I have about 5GB left free, and it needs 11GB) - my only option at this stage was to go for the Clean Install. This wipes the drive of everything and gives you a lovely clean install of Leopard. Fine, I guess, but I kind of liked all the programs I had installed on there and now I'll have to re-install them all over again. Frustrating, and not a great first experience of Leopard.

Currently the Mac is doing the clean install. I'll let you know what happens once it's finished... Let's hope there's no more blue screens...

Update: Yes, a clean install worked fine.