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Interesting stuff!

I want to buy my first MBP in the fall/winter so I probably won't wait for Nehalem. For my uses (internet, email, chatting, office apps, movies and music, managing photos, etc...no gaming) even the more basic laptops out there would probably suffice, and whatever MBP I end up getting (probably a Montevina one) will be more than powerful enough for my use. I tend to upgrade my computer every 2 - 3 years or so, so it's not like whatever I buy will be my one and only computer for life, lol. I'll probably just buy what is out this fall/winter, the exception being if something new is right around the corner (a few weeks or less away) when it comes time for me to buy, in which case I'd wait the few weeks.

It's hard not to get excited for the next big thing, though! I have to remind myself that with my uses I might not even see a big difference in performance/make use of new features, and that I can always upgrade again in the future, lol.
 
To put the cost into perspective: A pack of 20 cigarettes costs £5.50. MacBook starts at £699. That's 127 packs of cigarettes, or 4 months of light smoking. If a smoker in the UK reduces his or her consumption by 2.32 cigarettes a day, they save enough to buy a MacBook every three years.

Seems you have to be _both_ crazy _and_ filthy rich to be a smoker.

Mom, is that you?!? :eek:

J/K but yes that does put things (subsidies?) into perspective doesn't it? :D

(TCDan = still smokin', drinkin', and using lots of gasoline) :eek:
 
No way. Not happening. Not even this year. It'll be late spring of 2009 before anything but the Mac Pro has Nehalem.

And this is what I expected. I keep trying to tell anyone that needs a new book to grab one now. The next big improvement in power (Nehalem) isn't due til January for the desktop chips, let alone the portable ones.
 
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