For those of you who are Mac fanatics, like me, you’re no doubt chomping at the bit to get your grubby little hands on the next version of Mac OS X: 10.5 Leopard. It’s slated to be released in October, and knowing Apple, I think they’re probably going to pick the evening of the last day in October to launch the new OS.

From what I’ve seen of it, it’s not a revolutionary jump into a higher plane of existence, but just a darn good upgrade to an already fantastic platform. And it will only serve to increase the distance between it and its rivals in the PC world in terms of design, innovation, usability, and sheer spit and polish.

There’s only one thing that sucks about it. I’ll have to pony up another 129 bucks for the basic privilege of using it. Darn you Steve Jobs! But hey, if my AAPL stock continues to skyrocket, I’ll probably come out ahead anyway.