form Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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It seems that the enthusiastic frenzy of wanting to buy new stuff is very similar to the enthusiasm when learning a fresh topic about something: enhanced by lots of exposure (especially self-exposure, e.g. reading, researching, etc., which often happens in bursts) and the effect is short-term. If allowed to escape the focus for some time, the NOW-urge can dissipate.
Since all the above things, to my knowledge, are true and accurate...since you aren't even technically leaving your current full-time employment for 1-2 years; since someone else is shopping for and building the pc based on your requests; and since the next significant update in cpu tech is right around the corner...IMO it makes far more sense to wait right now.
I've had the urge to update my 3-year-old computer for a while, but after I do some gear assembly in a newegg shopping cart that builds the urge/momentum as described above, the next two actions I perform are critical in my reasoning and self-preservation pathway: 1. I don't IMMEDIATELY buy the stuff. I let it sit there for a while in the cart, while I go and do other things. For hours, or even days. 2. I accept and acknowledge that, no matter what I get right now, I won't see any real performance improvement with current models in any situation vs. what I already have been using for 3 years. Once those things are allowed to sink in, I essentially don't sign the patriot act (mentioned per the claimed knee-jerk reflex that it's sometimes referenced as) into law after all...because it's just not necessary.
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