Buying An iMac, Wait For Leopard To Be Released?

I'm just about to back to Uni after summer and thinking of buying an iMac.

In the UK Apple store, students are getting discount and a free nano until Oct 30th.

When is Leopard being released? Am i correct in saying that the current operating system is Tiger? If i bought an iMac now and Leopard was released in a few months would i be entitled to a free upgrade or is Leopard simply an update via download?

I'm looking forward to buying a Mac, i have used Mac's at college before and love them. At home i have only ever had Windows and Ubuntu as an operating system.

#472584

um.. its the old 2g nano and leopard is cheaper... So if you like the old outdated nano go for it! buy i am sure you can but a refurbished for like 99

so yea, there was already a thread about this...

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....no+leopard+ipod

#472597

Aha, I saw this offer to and thought hmmm I wonder if they are just getting rid of old Nanos... apparently not.

A bit sneaky this deal.. Phrased quite badly.

You need to buy and Apple (listed in the deal) AND BUY and Nano, then there is a £85 Rebate which you Mail away for...

#472601

well maybe theres a way to get both, leopard is to be released at the end of october.... itll be tight but u may be able to get a new nano free and leopard!

#472666

Get the iMac with Leopard. Leopard is the first system that's meant for Intel Macs. Tiger wasn't meant for Intel Macs, Tiger was just a port to the Intel architecture. You won't get the full performance out of Intel Macs with Tiger. Get the iMac with Leopard pre-installed.

#472670

^ yea

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