Buy IMac Now or After Lion Release

[planoray]

I am going to buy an IMac online. Do I order it now and get the free upgrade when Lion is released? Or do I wait so I can have Apple send it to me with a fresh Lion install? Does it matter?

Thanks

 

[wordoflife]

I would just order it after Lion is announced.

 

[03jcrhr]

Buy it now. The first release of Lion is likely to be buggy so you can wait a bit after it comes out for these to be ironed out - plus you get it earlier

 

[Sodner]

No reason NOT to get it now. You'll get you iMac sooner and you'll get a free update to Lion once it's released. Buy!!!

 

[Vantage Point]

If you can wait a week or two then I suggest doing that. Life will be easier if you can just plugin your new computer and do your thing instead of spending time....

 

[Michael383]

I'd get your iMac now and get Lion as a free upgrade.

 

[davegoody]

Get it now

I'd get your iMac now and get Lion as a free upgrade.

Normally I would say wait, but as the iMacs have only just been updated, you may as well have fun with it for a few days, the Lion upgrade is painless and very quick (assuming you have a decent connection to D/L the upgrade) and it, in typical Apple fashion, just works.

I am running the GM and it is very nice, boot time is quicker, gestures are awesome (and second nature already, when I go back to my production MacPro and Magic Trackpad, running SL, it seems clunky already !

Go for it.

 

[sauobeatbath]

Probably Not. Buying a mac before lion is released will probably have snow leopard. and if a mac ever does come with lion now, it'll probably be beta.

 

[Kebabselector]

Chances are if it comes out next week you'd probably need to wait another week or so before all the shop inventory is replaced with native lion installed iMacs. You might as well get it now and upgrade in a few weeks time.

 

[Fishrrman]

The advantage of buying now is that you will receive BOTH the Snow Leopard AND the Lion OS's (free upgrade to Lion if you wish).

You may find it valuable to have Snow Leopard around, even if you upgrade to Lion shortly afterwards. Particularly if you encounter an app that requires "Rosetta" to run (which Lion doesn't have).

 

[OneMike]

I'd just buy now. It's not like you're going to see new hardware when lion is released.

 

[blevins321]

Buy it now. The first release of Lion is likely to be buggy so you can wait a bit after it comes out for these to be ironed out - plus you get it earlier

This. Buy now and get stable Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Then wait for Lion 10.7.1 to iron out all the bugs found at release