Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I think yasi got the wrong big cat.

Don't those who buy a mac near the time of a new release of the OS, get a substantial discount on a new version? I always just nicked my disks of a friendly mate.

pf - it'll just be a 25 quid upgrade..

no it will not be a £25 upgrade if the new OS comes out soon after purchase.
i can't remember the cut off point but i had a snow leopard upgrade disk that IIRC cost a nominal charge (think payment is needed to enforce end user agreement) of £1 for the disk. i purchased a macbookpro just before it's snow leopards release.
the upgrade disk was not machine specific like the disks supplied with the laptop so it could be used on other machines :-)