Should I or shouldn't I? buy I mean

Ok I've got a imac from 2007 which came with Leopard on it, was new to Mac, and love it. Havent used everything on it yet! I bought iLife 09 as it came with iLife 08, and I liked the look of the new features of iLife 09;faces/places etc
My iMac is "only" a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo, and I have 2Gb RAM in.
I know Snow Leopard is only around £20 (UK pounds) now, but am wondering if I should just wait till Summer/June now to see if a newer OS comes out, or just go for Snow Leopard, or even not even bother.
Leopard works fine for me, as I say still learning Mac, cant see anything that Snow really adds, but is it worth it? the 7-10Gb space is irrelevant to me, as I store media stuff on external disk.
So now a few of the bugs have been ironed out, should I go for it or not?
please answer without mocking!
cheers

the loc-man:
I aim to do a complete reinstall, clean install of it.
I concur with baltwo. That is unnecessary and a complete waste of time and money. Buy the cheaper upgrade disk and that will work fine.
I believe all I need to do is save the iTunes folder, copy it to my NAS for storage, install Snow, then copy the iTunes folder back onto the Mac HDD?
Use this upgrade option and everything will be in place, and you will not know the difference except for the quicker startups and faster OS. You won't have to move anything around. There is also less room for error this way.
to be honest when you say about saving HDD space 7-8Gb in the "olden" days would sound great, but really its just a few iTunes movie worth now, so this is not a buying decision for me.
Some folk have reported gaining back as much as 20 GB, which is not by any means paltry. However, even 8 GB could spell the difference between a too full drive with serious consequences and having a nice cushion. You need to maintain a minimum of 15% of the total capacity of your HDD as contiguous free disk space to avoid directory currupton which can result from not having sufficient free space to grow the Extents Overflow File. The additional space also improves the performance of your computer by giving you disk space for swap files.
Please do post back if you have further questions or comments.
cornelius

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