This week, I got the check from the freelance project I sacrificed so much sleep over a couple weeks back. I should have another check from a different project within the next week or so as well. Between the two of them, it's more than enough to buy a MacBook Pro and the required accessories and software.
Further, Native Instruments has announced that the Intel-compatible version of Traktor will be released tomorrow, Reaktor was updated last week, and I upgraded to Ableton Live 6 last week as well, so all the “must-have” software is now compatible and native. (I'm ignoring the Adobe suite for now. It's going to be a long time before it's updated anyway, and, unlike the audio apps, it runs in emulation.)
Availability on the 17″ model that I'm gearlusting after has improved quite a bit, so it'll most likely be available once I decide to buy one. So, not much to hold me back, except my usual nagging sense of frugality before any major purchase.
Still… MacWorld is only 5 weeks away, and I do dislike buying Apple products so close to a “Stevenote.” So…