Originally Posted by
jsandresen1
Do not purchase your Mac until Macworld and Steve Jobs does his Keynote. Apple will make some announcements there. It starts January 9th so just be patient. There is nothing wrong with a PC but once you are a Mac you never go back. I use mine for writing as well and I have laptops and desktops.
Sometimes Macworld is the platform for really big announcements, and sometimes it's not.
Appleinsider.com and macrumors.com will have plenty of speculation leading up to that date. That speculation is worth exactly what you pay for it, but occasionally they'll have a scoop of sorts.