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[BlueDjinn]

Sinclap--perhaps you should *ask* Blue why he's delaying his purchase. It's not like I'm someone you've never heard of referred to in a news article--you can ask me directly.

Yes, I'm obviously deeply frustrated that Apple hasn't refreshed the iMac yet, although the current 2.8 GHz Core2Duo machine would still be a massive upgrade from my current almost 4-year-old G5.

No, I wouldn't consider a PC.

No, I wouldn't consider a Pystar. For one thing, being unlicensed or supported, what on earth would I do in the case of a hardware issue?

As for my decision to delay any system purchase at all, that's more of a financial situation decision--I realized that even the Rev A MacBook will solve two of the biggest issues I need to address, just by having an Intel processor: Parallels (to cross-check sites on IE) and native performance for Office 2008 and Adobe CS3.

The performance should still be considerably better than the G5, so I should be all set for another year or so (I hope).\