We both work in IT field.  We always know if I buy i7 today, then tomorrow will have a better one and the price of i7 will drop.  It works like this, then we have no way to prevent this and get the cheapest and topest product forever wor.

Actually I don't really Know what's different between i3, i5 & i7.  

just like Celeron, C2D & C2Q; i3 have limitation, i5 & i7 with speed boot function something like that!!

Need to do more research on this......

So u planning to buy a new one also?  

yes ar, I'm looking around month gar la, what I need: eSATA port with min 8GB ram, C2Q CPU is fine for me, I jsut need this new one for running virtual machine jar ma

nono, I not that mean. My meaning is too expensive for i7 if home use

Oh I see

I will suggest you either go for C2Q or i5 with more meory like 8GB or 16GB running w/ win7 64bits

haha.. am i not enough an IT person or what?  how come I never have the need to use such powerful computers?  what do you guys do at home??