Yes, it can be a bummer to buy something and have it obsoleted two weeks later. But there’s a flip side to this. Consider cars. If you want to buy a new car the best time is at the end of summer, when dealerships are clearing out this year’s model to make room for next year’s. They’re so eager to ditch their old inventory that they’re really in a mood to deal. If you don’t insist on having the latest and the greatest and are willing to settle for last year’s model (which usually is a darned good machine, come to think of it), something of the same sort is true for computers as well, you can save some money if you buy one of this kind right before or right after the new model makes its debut.

Had the same problem with my Santa Rosa MacBook, bought it three weeks before the latest refresh.

After keeping my reliable iMac DV for almost 6 years, I bought a new iMac G5 in November 2005, a month after it was introduced. I figured I would have the latest version of the iMac for maybe 6-8 months, but we all know what happened in January 2006.

Well, it’s also true that Apple kind of beat their own deadline about Intel-based hardware, but it was on the horizon in November 2005.

Then again I got a Power Mac G5 Quad in the March of 2006 (5 months before the Mac Pro came out — though I expected it), but I happily used it for another two years before it was in the hands of its new owner.

Peace,
Gene

After keeping my reliable iMac DV for almost 6 years, I bought a new iMac G5 in November 2005, a month after it was introduced. I figured I would have the latest version of the iMac for maybe 6-8 months, but we all know what happened in January 2006.

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