by The_Nekkid_DJ » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:56 pm
Leopard has just been announced to be released on 10/26/07.
The OS will be universal so it will run on PPC and X86 Mac Hardware. You can find iBook G4's that will run this nicely on Ebay for roughly $300. Older hardware, but still has a lot of life. Include the free Xcode developer tools and you have a great coding and development platform.
You really get more out of the hardware than with Windows. Get the new Intel hardware and run OSX, Windows and Linux all on the same machine. Also get Parallels or VMware virtualization software and run just about any x86 OS.
-DJ