Haha. Shyam09 I know, I know shame on me!
I just about tore my dad's throat out for making me doubt myself. I love these speculation websites, but sometimes they are just plain torturous (sp?) with people tearing apart your purchase.
I haven't been following Apple for long but I sw on cnet that the ipad 2 is coming out within the next 100 days, like in February. Does that mean an apple conference is happening in Feb? Do conferences usually happen with the release of new products?
Bc I can wait til Feb...maybe.
its way too hard to predict... sometimes apple should just let people know that "heads up we have a product coming up" but it would ruin their business, apparently they care more for $$$ and less for the tearings of our hearts
the macrumor mantra for buying is wait if you can wait and buy now if you need it.
ill assure you this much: the next gen model is going to be better than this model, and then the one after the upcoming model is going to be better than the upcoming model. in order of worst to best:
current gen
next gen
next next gen
next next next gent
next next next next gent
next next next next next gent
and so on and so forth
either way you are going to get a "crappy" / "outdated" model. if not now, then in the future.
i think i mentioned it already, but i got my MBP last saturday (19th) and it was a huge debate whether or not i should wait. i internally wanted it badly, but i knew that waiting would bring out the betterness in features. but i went ahead and bought it, and well im happy. sure SB is better faster etc. but 2 years from 2011 Intel will come out with something better than SB (heck maybe a couple of months later or a year later)
the big reason why i bought my MBP recently is the waiting time. with waiting, youre doing nothing but hurting yourself. you get "addicted" to the rumors and youre anxious to find out more. i did the same. everyday i spent hours reading posts on future MBP updates, etc. so its from experience.
the thing that was the final deciding point, besides the wait time was the quality of the product. typically many people go out and buy the laptops as soon as they come out. i could have done the same, but in my case i wanted to know if the 1000 bucks are worth it. right now i have the top most information about the 13" MBP. i have reviews from anandtech, engadget, etc. but what about the MBP 2011? i have no idea. i would have to wait a while.when you buy a laptop this expensive and if youre not exactly Steve Jobs you kinda have to walk carefully when you buy things. people buy and return, but its still a waste. so thats why i stuck with the current gen. sure its outdated CPU, but hell im happy with my basic tasking, and movie making.. SB will be better, but HOW better? i dont know yet, and why wait wait to find out that perhaps there is a small difference (im just saying, i have no idea about the diff)
this also plays a role in how old you are, what major/career you are in, college/HS/ middle school, etc. [please kindly post, so i can help further
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the reason why i bought mine now is because im 100% positive i can upgrade the RAM and the HDD myself. who knows what apple will do to the MBP's, they might make it flash blades (doubt it, though it is always going to be a small possibility)... what if apple takes away the ability to upgrade the HDD?
my personal thinking is i wait till Lion comes out and then i buy Lion, upgrade my drive to SSD (hoping that SSD's are cheaper) and then get some lovely 8GB ram, and lo! a lovely computer thats old, but works like NEW- maybe faster than MBP 2011?
sry for the long post.
ok im sleepy now. good night
*waves goodbye*
