You're right about waiting forever. But you're wrong about when it's obsolete: it was obsolete 6 months before it was ever available for sale!

>There is one thing I learned last time I bought a computer: if you decide to wait because there's something coming in a few weeks, you'll wait forever. There is always something new around the corner.
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>At some point you have to choose to just buy something and accept that it will be obsolete next week.
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>>I've learned my lesson about buying too soon, by the time the software comes along that can take full advantage of your hardware you'll be able to get it for half the price ... of course there will be a new line of CPU's tempting you to make the same mistake.
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>>For now I'm stickin with my overclocked Celeron 300A, and see how long it keeps running at 450 :P, I'll wait for prices to come down.