Apple is offering special deals on Apple Certified Refurbished products. Apple Certified Refurbished products are pre-owned Apple products that undergo Apple’s stringent refurbishment process prior to being offered for sale. All Apple Certified Refurbished products are covered by Apple’s One-Year Limited Warranty. For extended coverage, you have the option of purchasing the AppleCare Protection Plan with your Apple Certified Refurbished product.
For the first time, Apple is offering MacBook Pro and MacBook models.
Current Apple Certified Refurbished Products include:
• 15-inch MacBook Pro
– 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
– 15.4-inch TFT display with 1440×900 resolution
– 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 Cache
– 667MHz frontside bus
– 512MB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
– 80GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
– Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
– ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128MB GDDR3 memory
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Original price: $1,999 | Your price: $1,549
• 15-inch MacBook Pro
– 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
– 15.4-inch TFT display with 1440×900 resolution
– 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 Cache
– 667MHz frontside bus
– 1GB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
– 100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
– Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
– ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory
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Original price: $2,499 | Your price: $1,949
• 15-inch MacBook Pro
– 15.4-inch TFT display with 1440×900 resolution
– 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo with 2MB shared L2 Cache
– 667MHz frontside bus
– 1GB (single SO-DIMM) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
– 100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
– Slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
– ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory
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Original price: $2,799 | Your price: $2,149
• 13-inch MacBook – White
– 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
– 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display
– 1280 x 800 resolution
– 512MB memory (2x256MB SODIMMs)
– 60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
– SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
– Built-in iSight camera
Save 16% off the original price
Original price: $1,299 | Your price: $1,099
• 13-inch MacBook – Black
– 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display
– 1280 x 800 resolution
– 512MB memory (2x256MB SODIMMs)
– 80GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
– SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
– Built-in iSight camera
Save 14% off the original price
Original price: $1,499 | Your price: $1,299
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I use MBP’s all day long for video production…they are becoming major workhorses for me, and providing a good living.
Holy crap, I haven’t worked that cheap in ages. No wonder your busting yo ass.
Man I just negotiated a $20,000 insurance construction repair job, all I really needed was a MB and Appleworks, but I guess it’s overkill I used my duallie 2 and 30″
But then I guess for what you do a MBP is underkill, hahaha ain’t life funny like that?
Hey, I livened up the thread, sue me.
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“512K of RAM”
Are you running a REALLY striped down version of OS X (lol)? You must give me the recipe…
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Hey, where did all the Static Mesh posts go? I can’t see any of them.
Funny Joy of Tech!!
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/836.html
and another
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/832.html
I kind of agree with StaticMesh on one point. I bought a last gen 12″PB G4 and ended up keeping it on my desktop with my 20″ LCD. I traded it in on a refurbed dual 2ghz powermac g5 and haven’t regretted it once. (other than it having a 9600 memory card with only 64meg of ram.
For daily computing at work, I’m using a generic (groan) windows laptop. 2.2 ghz p4m, 512 meg ram, 30 gig hd, and 32 meg integrated graphics. It has xp home. Spyware, adware, etc are manageable as long as i don’t use internet explorer and run spybot and adaware EVERY day.
The no name is sufficient for my work, as much as I am itching to go out and buy a macbook. Under this scenario I cannot justify the expense (sigh). I’ve heard at least three mac commandments over the years on this forum:
I. Thou shalt buy a new system if thou needs it, otherwise thou shalt wait.
II. Thou shalt not buy a version A Mac product if thou canst help it.
III. Thou shalt not become vexed if the Steve thy Jobs releases a new improved system within a fortnight of thou buying one.
Myself, I’m hoping that my fifth grader needs a decent computer for school so I can give her the then three year old laptop and buy a core2duo macbook with 10.5.
(Sigh) I HATE being responsible…
For me, the MBP works great. I need Windows here at my mega-corp office and I plug into my 21″ Dell monitor. I put Windows XP on my external and run my Mac apps on my 1440×800 MBP screen.
At meetings, I have plenty of realestate to run any apps I need to. People here are constantly amazed at what I can do with this. It’s the most compatible machine ever made.
Sure the G5 has great engineering. Sure my MBP gets hot, but it never bothers me. I’m sure I could clock up the GPU and it’s be fine. Yes I run it on my lap for extended periods.
If you need portability and flexibility a G5 is not for you. If you are uni-focussed on HD compression rates, then go get yourself a “dualie”.
I suspect my lowly MBP will be upgradable to a faster processor through a mail-in service when I’m ready for it, just like my 12″ PB is. It doesn’t look like any more G5s are being built.
Besides, the liquid cooling systems are starting to wear out and leak.
So wether your name is Mesh or Noraa, your favorite computer may not be right for someone else. I spent $2000 for this one and I’m jealous for the $1549 deals out there now. Get what’s right for you.
I kind of agree with StaticMesh on one point. I bought a last gen 12″PB G4 and ended up keeping it on my desktop with my 20″ LCD. I traded it in on a refurbed dual 2ghz powermac g5 and haven’t regretted it once
Why thank you Clyde, nice to see a fellow machead who understands the point I’m trying to make.
I was the same like you, always buying expensive Apple laptops because I thought I needed to be showing off to people. Then one day I tripped over a cord (not the G3’s) and that sweet machine (at the time) went flying and I watched helplessly as over $3000 shattered on my kitchen tile floor.
If one has the money to burn for a MBP or absolutley needs it, then hey go for it. But it’s not a good value and it’s risky.
A desktop pro machine is immensly better than any laptop and if a cheap Mac or PC will do for the road then do that.
I’m just trying to get people to understand and make a rational decsion concerning their computer usage.
Your point was made about 50 posts ago. It’s your relentlessness in trying to get people to agree with you that’s the issue. Not everyone shares your values or priorities. State your point, then move on.
Have you ever bothered to ask what makes it so important for people to agree with you?
I still say that the MacBook Pro beats the Quad G5 hands down at being a laptop computer. Call me crazy, just don’t call me Static MacDude.
Static Mesh = Dvorak???
Sounds like the same formula… piss of the Mac faithful and have hours of fun defending your pissition.
StaticMesh, I’m not trying to rub it in, but I don’t really get your comment. First of all, the MBP’s are laptops, portable machines made for travel, why compare them to apple’s full fledged professional desktop machine (maxed out with 4gb of RAM)? Secondly, a MPB is not $4500, even with apple care, I don’t know where you got that figure. And according to this article, you can get a really good bang for your buck deal with these refurbs. And finally, the MBP’s are very capable machines, maybe they’re not “insanely great” for a pro gamer/graphics guru like yourself (?) but tests have come out of them running Half LIfe 2 and other graphic intensive games (under XP) very well, and sometimes better than any rival pc laptop. They actually offer an excellent balance of power and portability. “Lose it, drop it, drive off with it on the roof of your car, leave it in the hot sun, stolen etc…” huh? perhaps you should get rid of every portable consumer electronic you have then (ipod, ds/psp, watch, etc etc…) Anyway, drinking too much coffee? It happens
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Anyone with a brain knows that there is a price premium for getting a laptop, therefore, you can get a higher performance desktop for the same amount of money. You are also conveniently forgetting to add the cost of that low end laptop to your calculations. So in the end, you will pay a lot more for both a laptop and a desktop than for one or the other.