How often do prices drop?!

I got this question and i guess one of the resellers can answer it for me. i wanna buy a laptop in 1 months time. will the prices drop until the end of september or no? how often do prices of components drop?

FOr instance i am betting that intel will wake up and drop the price on 7720 since its very expensive compared to 7630! and that nvidia will reduce price on 580 since its loosing the competition with amd! isnt that a bit logic?

if anyone can englighten me though on general that would be great!

 

I had been researching and configuring my ideal laptop since around June, and I have seen prices drop maybe $50-100 at most. Price drops will not happen until all these parts become last generation hardware, I'm afraid. The next generation of hardware is coming (by the earliest, most optimistic estimates) in Q4 2011.

 

Permanent price drops generally happen for two reasons:

1) New hardware is released and the old stuff is discontinued/sold cheaper than the new stuff
2) Suppliers change pricing which affects everyone downstream

Number 1 is easy to predict as far as time goes (Intel/Nvidia/AMD have pretty clear roadmaps), but the amount and exact timing is unclear basically right up until it happens.

Number 2 is completely unpredictable.

 

I read, the release of ivy bridge is on march 12'

 

Dunno about price drops but I saw some price INCREASES for the newer Sager models, haha.

 

what are we waiting for Q4 2011? whats coming out?

 

If anything prices have consistently went down since launch of all the current models. Sager is aggressive on pricing and from time to time has specials on S1 packages and other Holiday Promotions.

 

Possibility of new GPUs, that's all. Even then, I had said "most optimistic", because it could take awhile before the GPUs appear in mobile platforms. It could be Q1/Q2 2012 before we even see a new mobile GPU.