Agony

So my wife's iBook is starting to go on the fritz, and you know what that means...  Time for me to get a new computer (and give her my current laptop)!  This was her suggestion, for the record- I offered to get her a new laptop and hold on to mine for now.

I love my wife.

Problem is, I'm really not sure what to get.  Part of me wants a MacBook- I love the form-factor. It's what I'd get, if only I had a guarantee that Final Cut Studio would be officially supported.  I rely on that stuff and I don't feel comfortable buying a computer that can't officially run it.  Plus, without a dedicated graphics card, I would be afraid I'd be missing out on any cool OS updates or features in programs like Motion (which requires a graphics card).

So that leaves me in MacBook Pro land.  I like the 15" form factor much better than the 17", but the 17" is the only model that has a dual-layer DVD burner (for now), and also the only MBP model that has the MacBook's double-tap to right-click functionality (for now).  I'd like to have both of those.  They're not deal-breakers, but the fact that they're absent on the 15" model seems to indicate that a refresh of the 15" is likely to add them at some point soon.

Plus, the new "Core 2 Duo" processors (Merom), which are 64-bit and supposedly much faster than the Core Duos, are coming out within a few months.  Those will almost certainly make their way into the MacBook Pro- hopefully ASAP after Intel announces them.

So the dilemma: a fully-loaded 15" MacBook Pro seems to be the ideal machine for me.  And, once again, here I am in that classic "just a few more months until something much better comes out" scenario.

If a Merom-powered 15" MBP comes out in the next few months, it'll surely be a far more powerful machine that the current (and quite nice) Core Duo MacBook Pro.

If not...  Then I'll probably go for the Core Duo MacBook Pro, and by doing so, prompt Apple to announce the imminent arrivial of the Merom MBPs for everyone else.