I am considering getting Mac book installed with Tiger. A lot of ppl are recommending waiting for Leopard release in october. but considering how stable Tiger is (10.4.9), Leopard when it comes out, it will take few months until its fully updated and fully stable.
and the offer for college students this summer (free ipod with mac book purchase), it looks like mac book with tiger is a catch. am also worried that when leopard comes out, the price of Mac books will go higher.
i also read that aside from the new 64-bit platform of leopard (tiger is 32), all other new features of leopard are just added user friendliness to Tiger and not real massive scale change to it.
so my question is, shall i buy a strong stable OS with a free ipod nano and a good price offer, or wait for a new - more friendly but not so stable- OS, later this year with a price tag that *might* be higher?
Mac Tiger or Mac Leopard?
Apple doesn't hike the price of their hardware when the OS is updated. They just sell their hardware with the newer OS as soon as it's ready. My gut tells me you'll want to buy now during the free iPod giveaway. Tiger, 10.4.9 is a nice and stable release, and will continue to be a good OS, even after Leopard comes out. It'll be years before you'll have to have 10.5 to run any application. There are still lots of apps that list 10.2, Jaguar as their minimum OS. Leopard will do lots of cool new things, not the least of which is the use of ZFS, but you can always buy the new OS after it's come out and they've had a chance to resolve some of the bugs that are inevitable with any software release. Get a good case for that nano!
Mac Tiger or Mac Leopard?
Well I think they have updates on all the OS' on the Apple website, incase there are kinks in the Leopard.
That sounds like a good deal though.
Or buy it now, and maybe you could just purchase the other OS later?
i recently bought myself a macbook pro about a week ago and asked myself the same thing prior.
i could either wait to get it when i am in college, by then leopard would come out. however i dont know how much it would cost then. i really only wanted it for the 64 bit.
but i couldnt wait to get a mac so i got it immediately. i got the ipod and a printer both free with the rebates.
my moms friend who works for apple estimated the upgrade price to leopard at nearly or around $1000. i think she was a little tipsy when she said that though.
Amazon.com is taking pre-orders for Mac Leopard;$129
I would buy the system now and update in the future.
I wouldn't wait. Get the Macbook now with Tiger and the free iPod Nano.
If you want to upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard in the future it's probably going to be $69 for students. Which I must say is a very good deal.
Be sure to get your student discount on the Macbook too.
