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Buying on Leopard Launch Day...

wrldwzrd89

wrldwzrd89

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Anyone else making plans to buy a new Mac the day Leopard launches? I am. If I was to buy the Mac I've been looking at today, it would be basically a stock 24" iMac - the only change I want is a 2GB RAM upgrade, and I know the fine folks at my local Apple retail store could do that for me at purchase time (I asked them about this earlier).

My reasoning is thus:

I could replace two computers with one by running Windows on my new Intel-powered Mac.
250 GB is plenty of space for me - I haven't outgrown it yet.
The 2GB RAM upgrade is primarily to benefit Parallels, so I could allocate 1GB of RAM to the virtual machine. I wouldn't be running more than one VM at once.
 
Sounds great except there's a good chance you'll ge the iMac with Tiger and they'll upgrade for you (for free) to Leopard or give you a disk to do it or something. Something like this went on during Tiger's release.
 
I plan on buying leopard on or very soon after launch day. I thought it wasn't slated to release until spring 2007...which would mean it's at least 2 months away.
 
D3LM3L said:
Sounds great except there's a good chance you'll ge the iMac with Tiger and they'll upgrade for you (for free) to Leopard or give you a disk to do it or something. Something like this went on during Tiger's release.
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Yup, I made this plan knowing that that would happen, since I intend to do a custom install of the OS and applications anyway... I figured, why not kill two birds with one stone and take care of that at the same time I install Leopard?
 
jessica. said:
I plan on buying leopard on or very soon after launch day. I thought it wasn't slated to release until spring 2007...which would mean it's at least 2 months away.
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Yeah, 2 months at least. I reckon more towards late March/Early April.

It's got (and needs) a long way to go yet.
 
Chundles said:
Yeah, 2 months at least. I reckon more towards late March/Early April.

It's got (and needs) a long way to go yet.
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may have to wait until WWDC -- 6/07 -- which is more like a half a year away and time wasted.
 
Yeah I'm planning on replacing the Mini I got in October as a stop-gap (my G4 really needed to be replaced) with a 24" iMac, decked out, but didn't want to pay for iLife '07 and Leopard. The Mini is going to my dad who has already agreed to buy it and wants it two weeks ago, but he'll have to wait a bit.

If they announce iLife and either don't set the release date for Leopard or set it too far out I will get the iMac now and just eat the $129 OS upgrade.

What I'm also really hoping for out of MWSF is either a Black 24" iMac or better yet the-often-speculated-a-lot-of-people-want-one MacProJr.-HeadlessiMac-Returnofthecube-Midtower-whateveryouwanttocallit.
 
LOL Roland, I'd make fun of you, because, *cough* it's not going to happen, but I'm also waiting for a not-going-to-happen product (subcompact). :(

I guess I'm on a fence between hanging on to my two Macs until Penryn comes out, or going for something else sooner. The iMac really doesn't feel old at all. The iBook is pretty relegated to basic tasks, but it is a champ still at those. And a half-pound-lighter-than-any-current-Apple-notebook champ at that. :)

Once piece of minimal advice is that if you end up ordering a BTO/CTO/customized Mac on the "day of," you're probably more likely to get it built out of the factory right, rather than having to get a drop in disc, although it'll also take a few extra days...
 
djkny said:
may have to wait until WWDC -- 6/07 -- which is more like a half a year away and time wasted.
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Apple will not release an OS update at a convention like WWDC. They'll only announce a vague timeline for it.

I'll be pre-ordering it and getting my education discount on it. Plus, I see the OS coming a whole lot sooner than anyone else thinks. They want to steal Microsoft's thunder with the Leopard release, so I could easily see them going "SURPRISE!" at MWSF and saying that it's available at the end of the month or giving us a release date in February. Just because the seeds that have been released to developers may be buggy doesn't mean that Apple has the same version...
 
cbrain said:
Is it a good idea to buy Leopard or iLife 07 as soon as there are released?
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Some wait till 10.5.2 is released, others buy it the very first day. Others buy it when they can. Just when you'd like, I know I'll buy it when it comes out, even if it has a few bugs, cause its an Apple OS
 
I plan on getting an iMac + iPod about a week after MWSF and see what happens software/hardware and hope that they set a release date for Leopard. 10.5 is my main reason for wanting to switch since I wanna jump on the Apple bandwagon before having to get used to vista.
 
mkrishnan said:
LOL Roland, I'd make fun of you, because, *cough* it's not going to happen, but I'm also waiting for a not-going-to-happen product (subcompact). :(

I guess I'm on a fence between hanging on to my two Macs until Penryn comes out, or going for something else sooner. The iMac really doesn't feel old at all. The iBook is pretty relegated to basic tasks, but it is a champ still at those. And a half-pound-lighter-than-any-current-Apple-notebook champ at that. :)

Once piece of minimal advice is that if you end up ordering a BTO/CTO/customized Mac on the "day of," you're probably more likely to get it built out of the factory right, rather than having to get a drop in disc, although it'll also take a few extra days...
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So true about the fact of the iMac not feeling old :p Mine isn't but as you pointed out the iBook keeps hanging in all the rounds (gf's is going to be two this spring). I think she would like to see a 13" ws MBP to upgrade from her iBook as I would love to have a "hope some day" mini tower or something like that :rolleyes:
Guess once I pay for a family pack of each (iLife, Leopard) that's an upgrade cost itself for at least one of them but hey they sure can last :D
 
AD! :D

Yes, your iMac is still very much loved in my hands. ;) In fact I'm typing on it now!

And, since you mentioned it, I am not sure of the exact dates, but my iBook turned three the week before Christmas. :)
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Anyone else making plans to buy a new Mac the day Leopard launches? I am. If I was to buy the Mac I've been looking at today, it would be basically a stock 24" iMac - the only change I want is a 2GB RAM upgrade, and I know the fine folks at my local Apple retail store could do that for me at purchase time (I asked them about this earlier).

My reasoning is thus:

I could replace two computers with one by running Windows on my new Intel-powered Mac.
250 GB is plenty of space for me - I haven't outgrown it yet.
The 2GB RAM upgrade is primarily to benefit Parallels, so I could allocate 1GB of RAM to the virtual machine. I wouldn't be running more than one VM at once.
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Buying a Mac on launch day doesn't make a ton of sense. You should wait until a little after launch, so leopard will be installed on your machine- espically consideing you're buying from an apple store and the imac you get could be weeks old.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Yup, I made this plan knowing that that would happen, since I intend to do a custom install of the OS and applications anyway... I figured, why not kill two birds with one stone and take care of that at the same time I install Leopard?
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appleintelrock said:
Buying a Mac on launch day doesn't make a ton of sense. You should wait until a little after launch, so leopard will be installed on your machine- espically consideing you're buying from an apple store and the imac you get could be weeks old.
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He plans to do his own install ...
 
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