Buy a laptop now or wait a while?

Question

Iron

Good evening everyone, gentlemen.
I have a question here, due to the moral obsolescence of my current device (aspire 5930g) and inadequate jumps in the dollar exchange rate, I decided to look after myself a new device (before it's too late). I will use the laptop as a workstation and game console. The price is around $900-1000.
Of course, I am aware that it will be practically impossible to achieve ultra graphic in the last assassins (in full HD with an acceptable frame rate), but in fact I am not chasing after this. I need a gaming laptop more like insurance against a supply of iron for some time ahead with the opportunity to try out new toys in the future (the same applies to the inadequate increase in the gluttony of new versions of popular applications).
Of the important interests: IPS matrix (I often work with graphics), RAM from 8GB (because apache + chrome over 20tabs + sublime are constantly spinning, etc.). So far I have settled on the lenovo y700-15 model and, in principle, everything suits me if not one but ..
I don’t really follow the laptop market and therefore I have no idea what current trends are. First of all, I'm afraid to buy a laptop at the intersection of technologies (maxwell - pascal; skylake - something) and also get into a mess with the choice of a laptop without a docking station (as I understand it, this is a new trend). In addition, I am saddened by the 25-30% lag of 960m from her older 970 model. Again, I'm not so much concerned about high benchmarks, the level of graphics, but the power reserve for the next year or two (because I'm seriously hungry for an acceptable monitor and games).
This begs the question, what would you recommend?

• Wait until laptops with 970 and i7-6xxx on board become cheaper?
  
• Wait until chips on a new architecture with a smaller technical process enter the market?
  
• Just do not wait and buy a laptop right now until the dollar has grown?
  

Thanks a lot for your help =)

Answer 1

Not so much an answer as food for thought.

• Notebooks with a new generation of graphics chips will enter the market closer to the second half of 2016. The chips themselves will be characterized primarily by two things: reduced power consumption / heating due to significant miniaturization of the technical process (a big plus for laptops) and less performance loss at high resolutions thanks to HBM2 memory ( If you're playing at 1080p or below, don't care).
  
• Intel Kaby Lake chips will also appear around the second half of the year. In addition to hardware decoding of heavy HEVC profiles, the functional difference between it and Skylake is very insignificant, so you can definitely not expect a junction of technologies here.
  
• To be able to connect a pretentious docking station, you need a laptop with a Thunderbolt 3 connector.
  
• When models on new chips come out, old models will become cheaper. If you don’t itch right now, then you can wait; the dollar has just dropped a little - it's time to transfer rubles into it and put it into growth.
  
• If it itches, then there is no need to wait; anyway, “power margin” in relation to a laptop is a so-so idea, especially with such a budget. For some tasks, its performance has long been enough with a margin, while for others it will always seem not powerful enough - and there's no getting around it.
  

Answer 2

"If I had known the buyback, I would have lived in Sochi" (c) Folk wisdom.
You need a laptop now, so take it. Well, if you wait for the X chip to come out right now and buy it ... Well, wait, and what will happen next when the Z chip appears on the horizon. Wake up again with the money and wait. It's impossible to catch up. Moore's Law, damn it.
So if the laptop you have chosen suits you for a year or two, then feel free to go to the store. Well, then change anyway.

Answer 3

Better wait until the dollar is 150 rubles.

Answer 4

Score.
If Russia continues to be drowned, then the dollar will continue to grow.
It will grow up to a certain point, after which the economy will collapse.
Right now, Saudi Arabia supplies oil for $0.5 per barrel, I read somewhere that it costs -0.2$ in general ... Not the point.
The problem of the growth of the dollar is different. They just rob you, and you are stupidly silent.
Take it dear, I'm not sorry.
I sold my poppy for 25k more than I bought :D
I dumped it in Germany, it's not as good as it was then. But there you have to work for an iPhone for a week and not a month as in Russia.
We take the average income.
Do it yourself as you see fit. Now the situation is unpredictable, different that everyone is greedy, then the dollar will continue to grow.