Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

hardly throwing money away - it will still do exactly the same things. The new version will only be marginally quicker at everything (you probably won't be able to notice any discernible diff unless you're really pushing it's limits). All the "20% faster" is just marketing stuff - the average consumer (or pro) won't notice any difference.

I used to think like you, but to be honest - a computer is only ever 'current' for about 2-3 months these days so that mentality is flawed. My attitude has changed to one where if I need something, I'll only be buying another one in 2 years time regardless.

Basically I'd rather buy an 'older' mac just before the 'newer, better' ones come, save the difference in money and spend £100 on 8GB of new RAM - which will give you a much bigger improvement in performance than a processor thats .333333333% faster.

Granted on your points there, but it's not just a CPU that clocks a bit faster. It's a brand new chipset, which handles RAM differently, and a far improved graphics handling to name a couple of points.

Also, I said earlier, that the difference wouldn't be huge for the 15" but the 13" will have a massive overhaul, as the core 2 will be dropped for an i5 (I think, maybe an i3). The performance jump from core 2 to i5 / i7 is a pretty major one.

Add to that the fact that apple doesn't pass that £100 saving onto you, I don't get your point. The new computers will come in at the same prices point as they always have with this sort of processor update.