[Lt Major Burns]

this could be endless though. iMacs won't ever have 2nd hard drive bays - that's what Mac Pro's are for; Time machine is designed for use with external hard drives.
blu-ray will be far too expensive for any realistic gain for at least a year from now, so i'd scratch that off the list for now.
iLife 04 is still very much usable. i don't want or need any of the features in the bloated 05/06 or even 07 releases. hell, if i could ask for a new mac with iLife 04 on it i would, i really can't see why moaning about a point release is that much of a deal. and iWork doesn't get sold with new macs anyway.

basically, i think my point is, is that the computer you actually want, the one you are putting off buying now, won't be released for at least a year. the computer that runs leopard perfectly, the one with blu-ray, et al.... it's just not viable in the next 2-3 months. and in a years time, you will be facing the same dilemmas...