Thinking of buying a new imac, but....

Hi peeps,
I've got a bit of a predicament on my hands. I've made a decision that I'm going to by a new imac because I need it for uni and stuff. But I start in September and need it before then for obvious reasons, the other problem is that Leopard is scheduled for October if I'm not mistaken.
A mate told me that I could buy an imac something like 3 months before hand and get the upgrade for leopard free? I just want to confirm that because that would solve it! The only problem with buying like that, they could postpone it more.
But anyways, can anybody confirm that?
Cheers,
Will.

Will..first...Welcome to Apple Discussions..
No one here can answer that since we are all just end users without special knowledge of Apple's plans...
Besides it would be speculation and the 'Terms of Use' that we all had to agree to to post here would be violated

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