Optimal time to buy a mac?

[GWestphal]

Broadwell is delayed, and will offer in all likelihood 10% reduction in power and 10% increase in CPU/GPU. The only other major thing broadwell brings is sata express which apple has essentially bypassed by offering pcie SSDs. Meaning that no significant features are coming until skylake with DDR4 and PcIe4. I could see the 10 or is it 7nm shrink after that being much slower so...is now the time to buy haswell since we won't see significant changes for 2-3 years?

 

[Mixolydian]

It's always a bad time to buy a computer.

On a more serious note, I don't wait for technology that's years down the road. I buy when the product has recently been updated.

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

 

[nickbits]

My moto is to always delay a purchase until you NEED it. That way you don't feel like you are missing out since you didn't have a choice.

 

[manly]

Question is too simple, there are a lot of variables.

In particular, model of computer. Personally I feel the rMBP are overpriced but inevitably they will reset to around where the classic MBP prices used to be. Particularly the 15" model that now costs $2500 to get a discrete GPU. Sure, Apple has always charged premium prices but at these heightened levels, frugal customers like myself are gonna hold out.

 

[boomhower]

My typical method is to wait until I need the upgrade or a new piece of technology is significant enough for me to upgrade. For the former when the time gets there that I decide to upgrade I look at probable release dates. If it's north of 6 months I buy now. If it's less than six months I wait for the update.

 

[Eug]

Optimal for a Mac laptop when it has Retina but the lightness of an Air.

So, 2014.