Want to Buy Mac Mini.... HELP!

I want to buy a mac mini, but my fear is that it says it comes with Tiger as the OS. Anyone with experience? If this is the case... I will be very unhappy.

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Some applications still aren't Leopard compatible. Some even have issues with Adobe CS2 and CS3 compatibility and Leopard. So depending on your application needs, you may find having Tiger to be advantageous. If you get a Mac Mini that preshipped with Leopard, you'll have no option to downgrade back to Tiger if you find a necessary application is Tiger only compatible.
PowerPC Mac Minis also have another added advantage, and that's Classic compatibility up through 10.4.11. There is no Classic compatibility in Leopard.
Note, Classic doesn't have full Mac OS 9 driver support, but there are many older software titles that work just fine in Classic, but don't work at all in 10.5.
So before complaining about Tiger only being on your Mac Mini determine if there is any software which requires Leopard in your collection. If not, don't panic!
Many third party software vendors offer Leopard like features on Tiger compatible software.
Finally if you have a big enough internal hard drive, you can dual boot into both Tiger and Leopard on your Mac for compatibility to both operating systems.
Note, 2 USB port Mac Minis are PowerPC. 4 USB port Mac Minis are Intel. Compatibility with Windows applications is better with Intel Mac Mini, plus more built-in RAM makes it easier to install Leopard.
Whatever Mac Mini you get, be sure to get the original prebundled software, as they contain a good hardware test program, and bundled software that does not ship with the operating system retail.

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