Worth getting MacBook?

hey,
Its monday the 10th of september 2007. I currently have a intel iMac and am looking at purchasing a macbook as i think i would use a notebook quite a lot. I want to buy a macbook but am afraid that something new and better will come out the day after i buy it ("if you try and keep waiting for better technology to come out you will never have any technology"). Is it worth spending the NZ$2000 getting one now or is there a substantially better product on the horizon?
Thoughts?
Thanks

The MacBooks and MacBook Pros were recently refreshed, so there's no immediate upgrade likely to come. However, since Leopard is due in October, you could wait until then and get the OS for free.
Generally laptop upgrades from Apple increase storage, RAM and performance by 10% to 30% at the same price. With the MacBook, the weakness is the video system which steals RAM and is sort of slow. If you are not editing video or playing twitch games, even that is not a problem. The next refresh on MacBooks will "hopefully" improve the video, but unless you are really sweating the performance, just get one and enjoy the convenience of the laptop.

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