Buy Macbook Pro now or wait?

[JackBurton]

same here! I'm hearing that the october haswell refresh will mainly improve battery life. I doubt they could make a big leap performance wise, but it's difficult determining if the additional 3-4 hours of battery life is worth the wait.

plus right now I qualify for 0% financing with apple

An additional 3-4 hrs of battery life would be AMAZING! Couple that with 802.11ac, and that would be enough for me to wait on the new MacBook Pro. At that point I think it would be the perfect laptop and would last me a loooong time.

 

[Bootleg Betty]

That's the one with the X3100, right? If so, yep, you're due for an upgrade.

Ironically, I just bought a similar one used a few months back, since my wife's iBook died, and she didn't want to use my MacBook Pro. The difference in HD playback is quite noticeable between my 2009 2.26 GHz MacBook Pro with GeForce 9400M, vs. her 2.4 GHz MacBook with Intel X3100. Mine doesn't lag at all, and remains quiet during HD H.264 playback. Hers sometimes may lag, and the fan revs up high during HD playback. At least it works well enough most of the time though. Apple states you need 2.4 GHz for smooth HD playback (although it's also smooth at 2.1 GHz if you have the right GPU).

Heh. I have the 2007 one (with GMA930 or 950 or whatever) and youtube is terrible. The best way to watch it without the laptop burning hole into my chest is using youtube-dl and VLC.

Interestingly, VLC uses way less resources than MPlayer or Quicktime. No contest with flash video, of course.

I'm waiting for rMBP 13 with Haswell too. If I don't buy desktop before if arrives anyway.

 

[smackababy]

An additional 3-4 hrs of battery life would be AMAZING! Couple that with 802.11ac, and that would be enough for me to wait on the new MacBook Pro. At that point I think it would be the perfect laptop and would last me a loooong time.

I would think the SSD moving to PCI would also increase HDD performance slightly. I am really waiting on this refresh because my company is allowing a BYOD policy and a rMBP would be great.

 

[mayo_capone]

Got a 13" MBA (base config). Great deal from Best Buy, on sale for $1000, $100 student discount, $25 AMEX credit from twitter linkage ($875 seems pretty good when you put it against similar speced windows ultrabooks).

I'm going to use this until the Haswell pros come out, then it goes to the fiancee. It's my first mac and I'm pretty psyched on it's performance, if it weren't for the retina display I'd probably just stick with the air since I'm certain it would be adequate for school.