About to buy a Macbook pro

Well here is my question, i just made the switch from pc to mac in october. I bought a Macpro desktop and a Macbook but now i want a Macbook pro for games and what not, because my macbook does not have a decent video card. And i was wondering should i buy one now or when apple releases the macbook pro with leopard installed? and i keep hearing about alot of problems with the new core macbook pros is this true any advice would be awesome.
thanks in advance!

coming from PCs it's easy to be scared of upcoming OS changes. if you were buying a PC before vista came out, it was indeed a good idea to wait and buy a machine that was totally set to go, with vista installed and working on it.
not the same thing for OSX going to leopard. apple did all the under the hood foundation work a long time ago with OSX, so new OS updates, even 'major' ones like leopard, are all pretty much smooth sailing.

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