About to take the plunge

[Eusebius]

sorry didn't mean to post twice.

 

[72930]

After trudging through five years of Windows, and not liking it much, I'd like to switch to Apple. I want to buy the 24" Imac, but am not certain when to make the move. The salesman in an Apple dealership here told me that it wasn't worth waiting for OS X Leopard, because applications that now work on Tiger might not work on the new operating system, at least until the application manufacturer updates the product. Is this really true? In my case, could it really be true that the Mac version of the musical notation software Sibelius, which was produced for Tiger, might not work on Leopard? And that I'd have to wait for the Sibelius people to update the software, something I cannot do?

Maybe I should visit another Apple dealership. The salesman also told me, against everything I have read on the Internet, that Apple was planning to stop development on iwork. Would iwork 7 work on Tiger?

Anyway, the Apple machine is beautiful; after playing with it for an hour in the shop the operating system seems a wonder. I was going to wait until Leopard came out, but now I don't know. I've no experience with Macs, and am certainly not technically-minded. I hope someone can tell me whether the salesman was right or just trying to sell me a machine.

Get it now. Tiger apps will work with Leopard. Some (few) Leopard apps may not work with tiger. iWork 07 will work on Tiger.

 

[AdeFowler]

Get it now. The apps that currently work under Tiger will obviously continue to work under Tiger. Should the apps that you use need updating for Leopard, simply hold-off upgrading your OS until everything's ready. Many people on here wait until the OS has had a couple of updates before using it anyway.

 

[phungy]

I'm taking the plunge too. After many years of Windows I'm ready to go (back) to a Mac. My first computer ever was an Apple II

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Where did he hear that Apple is killing off the iWorks suite? Even the rumor sites don't have that..

P.S. Get it now, don't wait. and I'm be very surprised if there are many apps that don't work on Leopard.