Macbook Pro help

gallifreyangirl

I am particular looking at a 17" as i am used to that size laptop screen. The macbook at 13.3 is a bit to small for me. I have seen a macbook pro 17 2.4 on ebay for £850 is this a good deal?

Bob63

gallifreyangirl wrote: »

I am particular looking at a 17" as i am used to that size laptop screen. The macbook at 13.3 is a bit to small for me. I have seen a macbook pro 17 2.4 on ebay for £850 is this a good deal?

So you are talking about the old style 17" MBP, not the new one? There are significant differences between the two models. That's not a bad price for a 2.4GHz old version though. Might want to ask the seller what the battery condition is (no. of cycles / health) as those puppies aren't cheap to replace.

gallifreyangirl

cheesy.mike wrote: »

So you are talking about the old style 17" MBP, not the new one? There are significant differences between the two models. That's not a bad price for a 2.4GHz old version though. Might want to ask the seller what the battery condition is (no. of cycles / health) as those puppies aren't cheap to replace.

I don't mind either which ever can get at a good price. What are the differences between the old and new style then?

Bob63

gallifreyangirl wrote: »

I don't mind either which ever can get at a good price. What are the differences between the old and new style then?

Specs for both here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro - old 17" listed under "discrete", new model listed under "unibody".

gallifreyangirl

cheesy.mike wrote: »

Specs for both here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro - old 17" listed under "discrete", new model listed under "unibody".

Will take a look thanks.

Simon_B_2

chaddy7604 wrote: »

Can I ask why?

Why?

Students get 14% off.
Why i wanted one cause they are shiny and supposed to be well engineered.
Why i held back because they are expensive and after using one i decided i didn't like the operating system at all XP all the way for me probably until windows 7 where i might splash out.

gallifreyangirl

I have now bought a Macbook Pro 17" 2.4ghz for 850 of ebay. Many thanks for the help but this comes in with my budget and my needs.

Bob63

gallifreyangirl wrote: »

I have now bought a Macbook Pro 17" 2.4ghz for 850 of ebay. Many thanks for the help but this comes in with my budget and my needs.

Welcome to the world of mac. Lots of us with a bit of experience here so ask away if you get stuck with anything.

asininity

850 aint cheap what world are you living in?

Leopard

asininity wrote: »

850 aint cheap what world are you living in?

She perhaps lives in a world and performs in an area of endeavour in which her personal reputation for delivering work, sometimes from abroad, reliably on deadline and without problems is fundamental to her and worth tens of thousands of pounds to her.

"Sorry: I got a virus. " doesn't cut it in such an environment.

When I open a laptop in a foreign hotel or other location and have half an hour in which to complete something critical, I need it to fire up and work immediately and faultlessly. I don't have time to sort out any new piece of malware that is trying to attack it. I don't have time to send a "HiJack This", or whatever, to MSE and hope that aliEnRIK :A or Browntoa :A isn't too busy helping flossy_splodge though her latest feat of incompetence to deal with it.

And the last thing I want to do is learn to become a computer geek and salivate over being shut in a room, surrounded by servers, drooling over computer code.

In such situations, the fact that a laptop which works may have cost a few hundred pounds more than one that doesn't is utterly irrelevant.

It is because you have never been able to grasp that fact that your chosen User Name is so appropriate. It is perhaps also why you cannot afford a Mac. The philosophy upon which you work is the embrace of false economy.

What you cannot seem to take on board is that some people don't greatly care if a Mac is more expensive than a PC; they buy one because they want one, or need one, and they can afford to indulge the cost of it.

What they cannot afford is the price of failure arising from buying a cheaper computer and using an operating system that is compromised to a degree that leaves them vulnerable to being unable to work within time-crucial deadlines.

I commend to you the wisdom in the quote of John Ruskin that forms cheesy.mike's signature. But I am fairly confident you will choose to ignore it and remain, as a result, too poor to buy a Mac, venting your frustration at that fact by vilifying those who have benefited from observing it.