question about leopard launch in the past

[rich2k4]

when leopard was launched a couple years ago, were all new macs immediately available with leopard preinstalled on the day it was released? Or was there some sort of grace period before you started to see new machines being preinstalled with the OS?

 

[LtRammstein]

Rich,

From experience, after the release of Leopard (last year) all new machines come with the OS. At the retail stores, there's a supplement Install DVD in the box.

Apple's policy on exchanging products has always been 14 days of a launch date.

For example, if you bought Tiger within 14 days of the Leopard release, you can exchange Tiger for Leopard with no additional cost. Be careful though! This is for APPLE ONLY! Their resellers have different rules.

 

[Dmac77]

I got my iMac in late November '07, so about a month after Leopard was released. My iMac didn't have Leopard pre-installed, but it did include an upgrade DVD.

Don

 

[TK2K]

it depends on product revisions, generally it depends on when the OS goes GM, if it's not GM until a month before OS release, well there's still probably a delay between when they load it onto the factory network.

 

[rich2k4]

im asking because of snow leopard. i'drather have it preinstalled.

on the snow leopard page at the apple site it says that it should be available on all new systems right away

 

[TK2K]

im asking because of snow leopard. i'drather have it preinstalled.

on the snow leopard page at the apple site it says that it should be available on all new systems right away

hmm well I guess there is your answer

 

[kmaute]

It depends on where you buy it. September 30th or whatever, SL is not going to magically appear on all of the Macs in the Apple Stores. But if you get a BTO machine from apple.com or something, then it will be preinstalled. If it bugs you, take 15 minutes and do a reinstall with the SL dvd that will most likely be inserted in to the box.