For a good while, we’ve had a copy of Google Earth sitting on our PC’s, and even introduced Beth’s Dad to the application when we were over in the summer. However the application has been resolutely PC only, with only a pretty terse message about a possible Mac version.

Various Mac sites have discussed the lack of a version and to some extent I didn’t really believe that a version would ever appear.

Officially, a version hasn’t appeared, but today I came across a posting on the Unofficial Apple Weblog saying that a copy of the Mac version had been leaked. The poster was somewhat nervous about downloading it, however a look down the comments found a stack of people who had, and no reports of any major problems.

Anyway, I grabbed a copy of the archive, and installed it, and it works, and very well too – at first glance it even seems to be more responsive than the PC version, even compared to a fast laptop like mine. I even discovered that they have updated the data set with decent views of Arborfield too!