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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 :P

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 :D 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 :D

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. 8)

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. :D

...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.