Leopard delayed

Randy Beaudreault maccult at pacbell.net
Sat Apr 14 20:50:37 PDT 2007


>On 13-Apr-2007, at 22:00, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
>>  I could give a rip about the iPhone, but care a ton about Leopard 
>>  since I would like to replace my 6 year old PowerMac G4, but hey, f 
>>  over the loyal Mac users, chase the weenie moblie phone crowd.
>
>Err... how is the release date of Leopard affecting your purchase of
>a new Mac?

I was planning my purchase around the time of the release so I would 
not have had to drop another $130 on top of my Mac Pro purchase.

>I doubt he is still using Mac OS 9 still... so what are you using Randy?
>
>-Shawn

I'm on Tiger.

>they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
>>  On 13-Apr-2007, at 22:00, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
>>>  I could give a rip about the iPhone, but care a ton about Leopard
>>>  since I would like to replace my 6 year old PowerMac G4, but hey, f
>>>  over the loyal Mac users, chase the weenie moblie phone crowd.
>>
>>  Err... how is the release date of Leopard affecting your purchase of a
>>  new Mac?
>
>buy a new Mac, and if you don't have the current OS already, you
>get a $130 bonus of the current OS (plus $80 for iLife); not a
>huge difference but could be a significant incentive in the
>timing of a hardware purchase; for those who were ready to buy
>now, but not in a rush, i'm sure some were waiting until 10.5's
>release to sweeten the deal; those are the ones who might react
>like Randy

Thanks for explaining my rationale Steve.
-- 
Randy

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