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Yes, I'll absolutely buy a refurb ($1099 instead of $1299). I'm pretty sure those are the same models as the new ones.
I'm also thinking that if a new Macbook came out tomorrow, it would be a while before any appeared as refurbs--a good reason not to wait.
The MacBooks that you're looking at use really low power Intel chips.
If you're mainly surfing, not doing anything that requires a lot more processing power like transcoding videos or editing photos and videos, you probably don't need the maximal power.
What a new MacBook might bring is more reliably longer battery life, using more efficient chips.
But one of the rumors is that they will update the MacBook Air line, which used to be their most popular laptops.
Those may not be as thin and light as the MacBooks, especially the 12 or 13 inch model. But the rumor is that they will update the internals for the first time in a couple of years as well as update the screen to retina display.
MacBook is already a retina display.
If you haven't tried typing on the keyboards, you might prefer one over the other.
That might be about the only reason to wait to see what happens, to see if it has a slightly bigger screen and is better to type on.