Broardwell Macbook Pro Q2 Refresh?

bearing in mind how long they took after haswell to release the current mbps, the broadwells are probably about a year away

 

I'd go for it now, especially as the 12% discount you can get is at least as good as even the full higher education discount, although it won't include a 3 year warranty, or allow for BTO.

Broadwell has already been delayed, and we don't know how long it will be until it is really available. Also, Apple like to keep a model available for quite some time until they update. My guess is that there might be a mild update in the spring, but most likely you could wait until next November without any update at all.

I would have a good look around various shops though, as while Apple don't really do discounts, their products might get caught up in some January sales deals that are worth it to you...

David

 

Usually in Q1 of new year macbook receive a minor upgrade.
(Nobody wants to buy in 2014 a 2013 laptop anymore, it's marketing by the way... ).

In my opinion they'll upgrade a bit the Mhz of CPU (because is bit less fast than previous genereation) and they'll change the size of SSD that now start from 128 GB.

Attention even to Broadwell, new cpu (30% faster than Haswell) that will be announced on new macbook air.

In any case, I'm waiting to buy... (13, i5 faster as possible, 8GB ram and 500Gb SSD my choice)