Waiting on the World to Change

The title is from one of John Mayer’s last album. It’s one of my favorite songs. Anyway, almost everyone I know just got a laptop upgrade recently.

As much as I want to upgrade as well, I can’t and I think it’s best to wait. I’m expecting to buy sometime in the fourth quarter of 2007.

One of the things I’m looking forward to are the upcoming flash-based hard disks drives. Another are the LED-backlit LCD displays. I think improvements on batteries will improve in the next coming months. I’m hoping for a battery life of 8-10 hours with all these technologies.

CPU isn’t much of an issue for me. What matters to me is faster buses and memory (both RAM and hard drive) since I multi-task a lot. And maybe by that time, 802.11n might go out of draft.

Right now, I’m planning to just mod my current laptop. More details on another post.