But that's only a dual core. ;-) Yeah, Apple really gets you on branded memory, but PC vendors do lots of squeezing there too.
I honestly doubt that Apple will have a 3+ GHz 13" quad core MBP in the next refresh. It would probably grab too much of their desktop business. If they do make such a beast, I expect it'll be one of the 17" machines that cost over $3k and I'm not going there (and only as a desktop replacement) unless I win the lottery.
A $1k 2.53 GHz 4 GB dual core 13" MBP would be very tempting in the meantime. I doubt Apple will take $400 off the current models when they introduce the next refresh, though. We'll see.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.