Apple keeps the release of its new equipment under very tight wraps.
As to your other statement, no matter when you buy your laptop, there will be a better, faster, more capacious one following along right behind it. With your time span of "a year or so", there may well be a couple of new releases.
Apple plan to start selling their Intel driven machines in 2007 so a new series of laptops then would not surprise me.
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I am curently studying to get a degrea in Graphic Design and want to get a new notebook to replace my amost nonfuntional one that I have right now. I was just wondering when Apple might becoming out with a new serise of notebooks? the thing is that I don't want to buy a G4 and have something better come out within the next year or so. I want to get something that will last me the next 5 years or so and not have everything in it out dated with in the next two years.
Thanks
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