I have been keeping my eye on 10.5, and looking forward to the rumors of an ultra-portable laptop to be true. I recently gave up on an iMac, after reading about the problems many people are experiencing.
You can always get a white iMac from the refurb store. You have the advantages that a refurb has been through a quality assurance process
twice, and that you're paying less. And, as I recall, it's eligible for Leopard up-to-date, and AppleCare.
When a new machine comes out, you'll get the usual cycle of every item of electronics - a fortnight of "wow!", where people buy unaware of problems; then a month or two of "omg beware!" as people realise anew that, actually, no new gadget is perfect, etc. One-two months later, the dust settles and fixes begin to appear. So you
could buy in the glory fortnight of a new machine, but since your whole post indicates very conservative tastes, I wouldn't recommend it; this means waiting 4-5 months for a machine stable enough for your tastes, if nothing now suffices.
Now I have given up on Leopard, after discovering that the Dictionary application now accesses the Wikipedia.
I think that Wikipedia is an affront to scholarship, damaging to the peer-to-peer spirit of the Internet and plagued by corrupt administration, but luckily, I'm not forced to use it. And Dictionary/Preferences might make it disappear entirely for you. Jumping into the application bundle might even suggest how to replace the Wikimedia search with something more appropriate to your tastes
😉.
However, if you're the kind of person bothered by teething problems, I wouldn't advise upgrading to Leopard for at least a couple of months.
I thought the Apple TV, and iPhone accessing Youtube was bad enough.
This is like complaining that you've bought a TV that
could be used to tune into Christian programming/hardcore pornography (delete as unappropriate). You always have the option of
not watching/doing what you don't want.
