Are you buying your mac now or after Leopard is released?

[Lollypop]

I have a powerbook 15inch, dont have the need for a new machine, nor do I have the money hoping for a new mac next year December, so I should get leopard with the new mac.... but I know myself, I wont be able to resist buying Leopord on release day!

 

[sonarghost]

For the sake of £90 I'd rather just upgrade to Leopard when it's out and enjoy my new iMac in the meantime

I'm with you. My 24" is on the way and will have alot of time to have fun with it now than waiting for months for a new OS. Btw, after spending $3100.00 on a new computer $120 seems awfully cheap Lol!!

 

[daneoni]

To be honest i'm not that psyched about Leopard as i was Tiger. Fact is, i still miss panther sometimes (my first taste of OS X). It was fast even though running at 512MB. Tiger is a little jampacked and not as responsive for me (even though running with 2GB) as Panther but still an amazing OS.

Will i wait for Leopard?...probably not. If i buy a new hardware and it ships with Leopard...yay, if not, Tiger is just fine for me. I wouldn't even consider Leopard till maybe 10.5.5.

Leopard won't influence my buying decisions in anyway. I'm either gonna get a MacPro now or wait till MWSF and get the next revision (clovertowns or integrated IR sensors for FrontRow).

Bottom line, Leopard: not a decision factor in my purchase.

 

[tveric]

I bought a Powerbook G4 when Jaguar was the OS X flavor and Panther was right around the corner. Working where I do, I had plenty of friends that could get me a copy of Panther when it was released, but in order to do things the "legit" way, I called Apple to get my Panther CDs in the mail for like $9 shipping or something like that. When I install an OS I like to wipe the primary HD and install fresh, except that when I tried this, I found out the Panther CDs wouldn't install Panther without a copy of Jaguar on the HD - they were an "upgrade" copy. So, I ended up getting a copy of Panther from my buddy and installing off of that anyway.

Lesson from this? I guess it's this: the more DRM that software distributors put on their software, the more end-users are going to get frustrated and get on the road to pirated software.

Anyway, after that, I would never wait for an OS upgrade to get a new Mac. That's retarded.

 

[mkrishnan]

I'm kind of a mixture of the last three responses. I'm replacing my iBook G4 with a MacBook at some point, but I'm happy with it and in no hurry. My arbitrary approximate date that I set for myself is when I can get one with a Core 2 Duo processor, and Leopard and Vista have both been commercially released. But I could probably gladly wait even somewhat longer. The new battery Apple owes me will certainly ease the pain.

 

[JSchwage]

I've decided I'm going to wait for Leopard so I can save some money. I'm also waiting for the new Merom Macbooks. I also feel a bit better about my Mac purchases when they're a revision of a current product, which is another reason why I'm waiting to buy my Macbook. I'd like most of the current bugs worked out of it when I buy it.

 

[Bibulous]

I'm also going to wait for the release of Leopard and iLife 07. I plan to buy a mini or macbook and want make sure it will support all the extras of Leopard and Vista.

 

[crees!]

OS X is not that expensive.

Unless you're a bum living on the streets.

 

[mkrishnan]

Unless you're a bum living on the streets.

Bums living on the streets have it especially bad when it comes to the MacBook. Clearly the blackbook handles dirt much better, which is a frequent complaint of the bum on the street. But his greasy paws can't afford an extra $200 for that. And so what is he stuck with? An inferior white notebook with stains on the palmrests. And wasting more of his bus ticket money on Mr. Clean Magic Erasers™.