Check their website to see what their price protection policy is. It might be 30 days, it might be less. You can purchase the FCP 4.5HD version right before or after the announcement, which entitles you to a free upgrade to the new version. You don't have to install the new version, you can wait and see what the bleeding edge people find out. Same for Tiger. If you purchase the system immediately before or after they announce it, you are entitled to a free upgrade when it ships. regards, sb On 4/3/05 5:49 PM, "Colt Freeman" <cfreeman at liberty.edu> wrote: > Hey, > Awesome, thanks for all the info. So is the consensus to wait a bit for the > OS to see if its stable enough for FCP? But if a new FCP is being released > as well how will that factor in? My only problem is that I will need it by > May 10th, since I'm starting a project then. I leave May 22nd for Indonesia > to start filming a documentary about the relief workers there. Any advice > would be appreciated. I would be purchasing a dual 2Ghz (best price to power > ratio I think) and the academic FCP/DVDstudio/Motion package, I also have > 2gb of ram on the way. > Thanks, > -Colt >