John Lewis and the new iMac

Can anyone tell me if the iMac's in John Lewis right now come with Leopard pre-installed like they do on apple.com - The reason I ask is because they have the 24" in stock and I can get it now, but they couldn't tell me if Leopard was on it or not!

*Hi LOC-MAN, Welcome* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
*Francine Schweider* a |||| bar poster in these forums has what I think is an excellent thought. This is what I would do.
"I plan to buy my next computer before Leopard comes out. Why? Because generally new Mac computers will not run any system older than the one they ship with, I want to be able to use the fully mature Tiger system, rather than having to rely entirely on Leopard. Who knows whether the software I own will be fully compatible with Leopard? Or how long it will take for developers (think Adobe) to update if there are incompatibilities with Leopard. Or even just how stable and reliable and all like that Leopard will be.
Francine"
Enjoy your new Mac, JP

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