New MacBook come with Leopard in October?

Hi everyone,
My friend is about to purchase a macbook...i have been telling him to wait till October when Leopard is launched because then the computer will come with the latest OS.
Is my advice on the mark or off? I am not sure what the go is when a new OS is coming out and you have just bought a mac with the old OS. Do they upgrade you for free?
Also will the cost of macbooks go up if they have a new OS on them?
Hope this all makes sense,
Thanks a lot in advance!!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
This is a user-to-user forum hosted by Apple. None of us work for Apple and we have no idea what their plans are. It's against the Terms of Use to speculate about unreleased products and Apple's policies. All anyone can say is, in the past, the new version of Mac OS X was included as an upgrade disk at first. Shortly after, two or three weeks, the new version of Mac OS X was included built-in. Also, in the past, if the new version was not included after the release date then Apple would ship you an "up to date" disk for the cost of "shipping and handling".
Personally, I wouldn't wait. If you keep waiting for "The Next Best Thing™" you'll never end up buying anything. What if there are a couple of key issues regarding Mac OS X 10.5? Maybe you'll wait for 10.5.1? I would prefer to have a computer that runs with either Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 so you have options.
-Doug

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