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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on October 26th at 6pm?

hmmfe said:
Yeah, but again there is not firm proof. The reference to Cervantes is also not proven as the original text does not include the work pudding and seems to be added in a later English translation of Don Quixote
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maybe to find some firm proof we must look in the pudding.............
 
chr1s60 said:
YAY for the 26th, BOOO for 6pm. I hope the 6pm thing is wrong. I didn't like the iPhone being released at 6 and I won't like this being released then either. Just release it when you open... it's just as easy. I hope we hear something official soon.
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You gotta get in the fun, it's party time at 6PM. That's why Apple releases their good stuff at night.
 
I will buy Leopard when they release a computer preinstalled with it that is worth buying, like new desktop Macs.
 
timswim78 said:
Interesting. Did Apple offer the same promotion with Tiger?
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If you buy a machine in the period of time after the announcement, but before it is released, you get a "free" copy of Leopard (although sometimes they charge you a handling fee).
 
Veri said:
There are some posts higher up suggesting that paying education price for OS X requires you to use it for educational purposes. I see no evidence of this, merely that you have to be a student/teacher to be eligible to pay those prices. The aim, as I saw it, was to provide a lower bar to entry to the Apple platform for up-and-coming earners, and to encourage its adoption in education, not to apply an artificial restriction in exchange for lower price.

Otherwise, I'd have to pay full price just because I write the occasional e-mail concerning money-making activity, and my entire OS install would become unlicensed upon graduation.

Can anyone correct me?

(Not that this is really a legal issue, except where extra terms provided after exchange of consideration are considered legally binding, or where I have missed some smallprint provided to me before sale. But it's interesting to know what Apple would prefer.)
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I think you're reading into "edcational purposes" too much. As far as I know you won't lose your license upon graduation.

Don't have actually any proof except that I had to sign some waivers when I bought some Microsoft software (Office and Vista) through my school. I believe the only way I'd lose the license would be if I let school with graduating. Otherwise, the license becomes a standard one upon graduation.

I would assume that Apple's education policy is not much different (or probalby less seeing as that they charge less for their software and don't drastically reduce the price as much as Microsoft does for edu purposes).
 
~J~ said:
Is there any way to know if your software will work with Leopard out of the box (day 1)... other than crash-testing it yourself?? I NEED Final Cut Express HD, Aperture & a few other, not-so-significant things to work...
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Final Cut works, Aperture works, Logic works, CS3 works......
 
awesome. so from 26th 6pm onward, if you get a new machine and it doesnt come with leopard, they give it to you for free (no questions asked), correct?
 

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