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Would Lion be for free?
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In the past Apple has limited their "catch-up" program to the past 30 days only, and I suspect it will be the same again. Therefore, yes, I do suspect that you will have to pay full price for Lion (remember, its release is still at least 2-3 months away).
Pricing details have not yet been released. Apple has previously charged $129.
Pricing details have not yet been released. Apple has previously charged $129.
You will have to pay for it. When Snow Leopard came out it was and still is $30 if you are upgrading from Leopard. However if you bought your Mac within a certain number of days before the Snow Leopard release then it was $10. I bought my MacBook Pro in June 2009 and it was $10 to upgrade to Snow Leopard.
I recently purchased my MBP as well and we'll both be paying for Lion. How much I don't know.
If you are upgrading from something older than Leopard then it does cost more. You have to buy Snow Leopard, iLife, and iWork in one box set.
Probably depends on if you relate "have to" to technical, ethical or legal aspects. Any such attempt usually results in looooong discussions and different answers. But yeah, the cheap one works just fine for the operating system from a technical point of view.
Well, "have to" relates to the technical and legal aspect. Since it's technically possible, and might be ethically questionable, if ethics is the intent, "should" is more appropriate.
If you buy your computer now it won't be for free. It will either cost $29 or $129...no one knows. Let's all hope it's the first option though.
It will work (as long as you have an Intel Mac of course).
If you are using the iLife that came with your computer you probably will want to upgrade that one too if you haven't already.
I'm still pretty new to the OS X world and still very much enjoy using snow leopard - at this point, from what I've seen, Lion doesn't seem a huge step up, so personally I'd hold off if it was £129... I'm pretty sure it won't be free though 
I have Snow Leopard but I was just asking a question about upgrading. I thought you had to buy the box set if you were using something earlier than Leopard.
I'm still pretty new to the OS X world and still very much enjoy using snow leopard - at this point, from what I've seen, Lion doesn't seem a huge step up, so personally I'd hold off if it was £129... I'm pretty sure it won't be free though
I very much doubt it will be $129, since it costs $100 for an Apple Developer account, which comes with a free copy of Lion + early updates.
If it is $129, I'm becoming a developer.
Yep. If we follow what happened in SL they gave it free (except a small handling fee) to anyone who bought a Mac once a pretty firm release date was announced. As I recall that was in June and SL was released in late August.
OP will probably pay full price. However, looking at how cheap the iWork and iLife apps have become on the Mac App store that may be very reasonable.