New Imac (aluminum) Buy now? or Wait?

hey, i just saw these new imacs, and i was wondering if its a good idea to buy it now, or wait until leopard comes out.
and are they really better than the whites ones?
Thanks
niko

I know this wasn't the original topic...just because Steve Jobs announced 10 "new" features of Leopard, it doesn't mean that those are the only "new" features of Leopard.
I'm not trying to pick a fight...TylerJS, just that if anything, it is Vista that is trying to "look" and "feel" like OSX. I was using a friend's HP running Vista...still "work" and "feel" and "look" like XP to me. It was so confusing that I had to just do what I had to do and power down!
I would say wait...get Leopard with your iMac installed. To me, OSX is so user friendly that I could only see it getting better. But...still a little confused on how "Time Machine" works...one would need a HUGE hard-drive in order to use this feature. When backing up movies, music, photo files, one could only imagine that it would take up a TON of space....
Anyway, again, I'm not trying to pick a fight...everyone is entitle to their own opinion, but to me, Vista is "copying" OSX, not the other way around.
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