[reaperducer]

Apple is usually very good with this sort of stuff.

My wife bought a MacBook two months before OS X came out, so she had OS 9. When OS X came out, Apple sent free copies to everyone who bought a computer in the last 90 days.

[spoppy]

Presumably it was more of a PowerBook than a MacBook, since OSX came out in 2001ish and MacBooks didn't exist till they switched to Intel in 2006.

Sorry..

[reaperducer]

You're right; I remembered it wrong. It was an iBook. 10GB hard drive and a built-in DVD-ROM. I wish I hadn't sold it years later.

[LanceH]

Or they could just announce their product schedule that they know months/years in advance so the customer could make an informed choice.

No credit for fixing the problem they deliberately create.

[reaperducer]

I guess you've never heard of the Osborne Effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect