well, yes, i am paying $3000 for this computer, but this is not the reason to throw away $30 for something in principle i would be entitled to.
Do what you gotta do! But "stressing" over a very very inexpensive $29 OS upgrade is really being petty. Which by the way you're not entitled to, since as of your order date of early June...(when you ordered the computer)...OS 10.6 is/was the latest OS version.
If Apple was charging it's historical OS upgrade price of $129...then I would be more in agreement with delaying your purchase to get the OS upgrade for free. But when the OS upgrade ONLY costs $29...I wouldn't worry about it.
But as I mentioned...Apple is a really good company...and will probably ship your computer with Lion already installed or a free upgrade (if Lion is released in July).
- if the wait is purely SSD related, you would think that the supply chain for those items (although how can they have shortages on those?) will be fixed by then and therefore, a BTO order placed end of july would not be another 6 weeks.
If the delay in shipping is SSD related...you/we have absolutely no idea when that will be solved. Could be before the release of Lion...or it could be after. In any case...there will be a backlog of orders to fill.
That backlog could be 6 weeks or more by mid-July (your original shipping date)...so if you cancel your current order just to insure that you get a $29 OS upgrade for free...you're going to DEFINITELY delay getting your computer well past mid-July (just to save $29 bucks).
And trust me...Apple is NOT delaying the shipping of your iMac due to the release of Lion. If this was the case...then Apple would be delaying the shipping of ALL Macintosh computers. Believe me...this is certainly not the first time there has been a Mac OS upgrade...Apple DOES NOT delay the shipping of computers due to a pending OS upgrade release.
- Nick