Finally.
After a much belabored purchase decision I picked up the Macbook Air.
Coming from a late 09' Macbook (2.26/4/250) and an 05' iBook before that, I really wanted to go retina but that only led to the whole, well it's only $200 for this and that, and eventually I was looking at the 2.7/16/512 model and while I could have bought one new on eBay for $2250...I don't really need all that computing power. 70% of what I do is surf the internet with 10% to streaming tv/movies, 10% to work related tasks (word/excel - basic stuff) and 10% to light photo editing and misc tasks. I also toyed with a 27" iMac (as I don't own a TV and this would be a fantastic screen to have around) and keeping my current laptop for when needed.
So why the Air? Price was right and I could actually justify this purchase. Rationalizing spending $2100+ on a new computer did not work in my brain. This did, so today i picked up a 13" 1.3/4/256 from best buy for the grand total of $1082 ($1234 - $100 student coupon and then used discounted gift cards from cardmall.com, no sales tax in OR)
Maybe when or if the retina iPad mini comes out, I will then be able to easier justify that purchase....
