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I feel very guilty
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:56 pm
by Chris Corbyn
So I just bought an Apple Macbook refurb from the online store to replace my mac mini. Thing is, I'm supposed to be saving money to go traveling so that was probably a bad idea
I have a Mac Mini at the moment which I got through donations for a project of mine but the plan is to sell that on eBay and put it towards the majority of what I just paid for the Macbook. I wouldn't have bought it until I realised yesterday that it's got the same graphics card in as my mac mini (Intel GMA 950/64MB Shared DDR2 -- pretty crap, but works for me!) and can be connected to my nice LCD monitor, apple keyboard and mouse when I'm sat at my desk

They're just nice and convenient when you move around or when you wanna lounge around on the couch and play on the internet at the same time. I can take it traveling with me too in a few months! To be honest, I miss the convenience of my old dell laptop which broke, but I'm really attached to os x now.
I'm going from:
Mac Mini, Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz, 512MB DDR2 ==> Macbook, Intel Core
2 Duo 1.83GHz, 512MB DDR2.
Not sure what difference that'll make really but I'm excited and guilty at the same time
On hindsight I have no idea why I wrote this post...
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:31 pm
by Benjamin
I thought about getting a mac, but I decided I can't live without right click. Linux is a good compromise for me.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:36 pm
by RobertGonzalez
As soon as I can afford I am getting a mac. I just gotta have one.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:43 pm
by pickle
The Intel Core 2 Duo chips were a pretty impressive improvement. I can't remember any numbers right now, just that the jump was impressive.
I'm waiting until WWDC & any potential upgrades that will be announced, then I'm gonna order myself a Mac Pro.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:51 pm
by Chris Corbyn
astions wrote:I thought about getting a mac, but I decided I can't live without right click. Linux is a good compromise for me.
They have a right click and a scroll wheel

It's just older ones that don't

If they are running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) then a standard USB mouse will work too.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:42 pm
by feyd
Unless it's guilty pleasure, don't feel it.

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:55 pm
by Christopher
Off topic and probably not what you want to hear, but these are just recently available:
Dell / Ubuntu
Inspiron E1505 N laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz, 512MB DDR2
$775
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... WEL1&s=dhs
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:44 pm
by superdezign
I was gonna get a Mac once... Until I realized that tablets work with PCs as well.
So, I just bought a tablet.

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:00 am
by matthijs
Don't feel quilty!
You donate a lot of your time and energy to your project and share that with a lot of people.
Some of them gave something back in the form of donations. After they gave it, it's your money. You still spend it on a mac, don't you.
And see it like this:
now there will be 2 people being a happy owner of a mac!
You are absolutely right, walking around with a macbook and being able to take it with you and work with it every were is heaven. It's always funny when I visit people and the conversation goes in something computer/internet related. When I then get my macbook out of my back, open it, let it connect automatically to a nearby wireless network and do something, people are always surprised. "That's a nice computer". "How did you connect it to the internet? I had to have my neighbor help me for hours to get a connection". etc etc
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:07 am
by JellyFish
I'm going to get me a $15k 3GHz 8-core Mac Pro.
...Some day.

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:54 am
by Kieran Huggins
That macbook is a nice machine - you made a good call. Drop in another GB of RAM (it's pretty cheap) and you'll be amazed at the difference.
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:54 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Kieran Huggins wrote:Drop in another GB of RAM (it's pretty cheap) and you'll be amazed at the difference.
Swapping to a GB of RAM was a good move. The RAM that came with it only had chips on one side of the board and the RAM I purchased has chips on boths sides.... I heard it scratch down the sides as it slid (read, was forced) into the slots and nearly cried

I could have gotten 2GB/667MHz for £50 if they had it in stock. I never buy components these days but I'm surprised how much RAM prices have dropped. In 2003 I used to roughly equate 100MB to £10.
PS: I can't speak for all of them, but based on the macbook I was sent you cannot actually tell an apple refurb as been preowned.... it's not got a mark on it... well worth the saving.