That's this year's model... but if you're leasing do you get to swap for a newer model later? If so that may be better. In five years it'll probably be a doorstop, after all so having the techies willing to work on his machine would probably be useful and worth the cost overall. Probably.

I dunno, though, I'd be tempted to buy despite this. And my laptop is well over a year old and still perfectly good - it's a Toshiba, too.