Steve announced at MWSF that OSX will be available March 24th…are you planning on upgrading…yes…no…undecided?
Me: i have a Beige G3 desktop with a CPU upgrade to 466, running OS 8.6 (196 MB ram)
Technically, I think that my G3 will run OSX…but I can’t see a compelling reason to upgrade yet.
I’d wait for about six months after release, if only to give them a chance to get all the bugs out.
I have the public beta on a partition, and I suppose I’ll buy the version 1 of X to install over it.
I don’t anticipate booting into X as my primary OS any time soon though. Hell, I haven’t even embraced 9 yet!
(I have, however, learned how to make the damn trash can and drive icons appear on the X Desktop where they belong–and I don’t mean a bunch of aliases, either.)
I’m just getting used to 9.0.4, and I like it. It seems pretty stable to me, and somehow more fluid than 8.6 was, though I was very happy with 8.1 when it was out.
OSX seems interesting, I haven’t tried the beta, but I’ve been following the sites about it and watching what others have done with it. Neat. Very clean IMO. I like the idea that it’s going to run on a new flavor of Unix, and the open source idea is welcoming. ResExcellence has some nice ideas for customizing it as well, though I haven’t tried anything on 9 yet, I will on OSX after I see how it fares with others first.
I’d like to upgrade, but I’m gonna have to get a new Mac first. My poor old trusty beige 6500/250 just ain’t up to it! I desperately want to try it out, though, partly because it looks cool, and partly because I suspect there’s a little caffiene-soaked-UNIX-geek-wannabe lurking inside me somewhere just waiting to get out
I plan on waiting a little bit until the initial bugs and compatability problems are ironed out, then upgrade. I definitely want to get my geeky mitts on that baby! 
Ditto.
Not for a while at least. I’ve seen it, and just the looks of the desktop the way they had it set up irritated me for some reason-- the pop-up expanding icons or something seemed too bells-and-whistles even for a Mac.
By the way…just downloaded iTunes…pretty spiffy free audio software (I’m running OS 8.6 so I had to hack the system file to fool iTunes into running…the bastards in Cupertino want to force us to upgrade in order to run their free stuff…)
I’m anxious to try it out, but I’ll probably wait until:
They work out the bugs
They tweak the interface after the early adopters do their bitching 