A bit of grandfatherly advice.

Don't make this significant a decision with a gun to your own head because of a family get together deadline.

There will be penty of opportunties to share your awesome system w/ family and friends.

It's not a post-doc fellowship appplication deadline, afterall. To get what one really wants, sometimes deadlines have to fall by the wayside.

xxoo,
Pappy

Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.