Buy now or buy later?

silvine

I am about to buy a gaming lap top any my Dad is about to buy a desktop for video editing but....

is now a good time to buy a computer or are there some upgrades (or a price drop) around the corner worth waiting for?

I'd be prepared to wait a month, maybe two.

AlmightyCushion

I think someone said Intel have a price drop around the corner.

silvine

Any more details?

GerardKeating

silvine wrote:

I am about to buy a gaming lap top any my Dad is about to buy a desktop for video editing but....

is now a good time to buy a computer or are there some upgrades (or a price drop) around the corner worth waiting for?

I'd be prepared to wait a month, maybe two.

There is always an AMD/Intel/whatever price drop "just around the corner". If you wait a month or two, you will always get a better deal.

In the past, this did not hold true during the winter months, since Christmas drove up the prices, not sure if the christmas season still effets prices the same as it did in years past.

Khannie

I'd say the same. If you can hold off, it's always worth doing (to a point). August / September usually sees price cuts for back to school, but there again Intel did just announce their price cuts so....

SeanW

There's always SOMETHING just around the corner. In the last year there have been a lot of these - Core2Duo processors, nVidia GeForce 8 cards (DirectX 10 capability) AMD/ATIs response to same, Windows Vista etc.

There are no major technological or other breakthroughs coming just around the corner ATM that I know of, so from that point there's nothing worth waiting for except perhaps Vista SP1 but I don't think that's happening very soon.

Kali

As everyone has already said, there's always price drops... in 6 months your rig will be probably be half the price. The key is to always look at price/performance and avoid the high-end (and extremely high-priced) kit when you can get 95% of the performance for 50% of the cost going slightly down the CPU/memory/disk/video scales.

astrofool

Well Intel are dropping prices on the 22nd (2 days time), so its probably worth to wait for that No other point to buy later otherwise, there will always be something better "soon".

silvine

I think I can wait two days! Any idea what they're dropping the prices on?

AlmightyCushion

silvine wrote:

I think I can wait two days! Any idea what they're dropping the prices on?

Apparently a quad core(I think it's the q660) will be dropped to $266 but that could just be for companies buying in large quantities.