It’s more the practice of staggering price reductions and speed bumps that bugs me, not so much that things keep moving. They make such a big deal of the conferences, and everyone waits (which damages their sales - one of the trade-offs of their extreme quest for secrecy) - and then to make up for their lost sales, they use what I consider duplicitous methods to suck punters into buying, when they know that in a month the new model is going to be significantly cheaper/faster.

No other hardware manufacturer does it as far as I know - they announce a new model, when it’s coming, and then let the punters decide if it’s worth waiting for, and they reduce pricing in advance to increase their sales prior to the upgrade.

I know it’s all part of “the Apple way” and how they build buzz. But it sucks for the customers, their fans. I’m resigned to the fact that every Mac I buy is going to end in this kind of result - which is a sad state of affairs really. I used to be a fanboy, now I wish they had real competition…

Not that this really helps you now, but since Apple has changed to the Intel platform it is much easier to pick when they are going to rev a system. In this case Intel had released the Penryn based chips recently and because the rest of the PC world uses exactly the same hardware it was a fairly safe bet Apple would have to follow suit - if only to ‘keep up with the Jones”