I was thinking of buying a new cpu for the computer and since it is the new years time my first reaction was to try and research if anything new is coming out soon. It would be a real pity if say I just bought something and maybe only a month or two something new comes out where I could have either got a far superior product for the same price or that the older product dropped in price substantially.
Sure enough, upon doing research there was indeed something new coming out in a few weeks. What a relief that was where I did the research first as I would have been kicking myself all day if I just committed to a purchase now.