Roland Moore-Colyer's reason for waiting to purchase a new laptop may hold water for the 'early adopter' set, or those that need to have the latest & greatest. A more practical reason to hold off on purchasing a new laptop until these new models land is that prices on the current top-of-the-line models will drop when replaced with the new models mentioned in the article. The same goes for every model down the line as newer, higher priced models drop down to replace their older, lower priced predecessors in a 'trickle down' effect.