Good macbook deal?

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Andr3w

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Friend is selling his 6month old macbook. He said i can have it for £580...

6 months old and is barely used. Comes preinstalled with OS X Leopard but comes with OS X Snow Leopard upgrade.

AppleCare Protection Plan included, expiring 17th June 2012

MacBook comes with iLife 09 which includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand and iWeb with Advanced NVIDIA integrated graphics

2GB Ram
160GB HDD
Core 2 2.13 GHz
13 in screen

Good/bad deal?

This will be my first mac
 
Sounds like my Macbook Hybrid Unibody that I purchased off the refurb store in August for £730. It was meant to have that exact spec but I got a 4GB, 250GB version instead with a backlit keyboard.

Your machine coupled with the Applecare till 2012 I would say is a very good deal. OSX flies on my rig with that same cpu. Iirc AppleCare for me will set me back another £200 and I've got to get it soon...
 
Is this macbook still pretty 'up to date' i have noticed on the apple website that the new macbooks (£799) have a bigger HDD and faster CPU.

Can the ram be upgraded? Is there any point?


edit: As mentioned it will be my first mac (I just fancy a change) and will be replacing my 17" windows vista laptop, 120GB HDD and 1GB ram

It will be used for watching movies/browsing web/steaming to the PS3
 
It depends on the type of Macbook as there are the older white polycarbonate ones, and there's there unibody variant that I have known as the uMacbook by some.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kainz/sets/72157621819810497/

The latest Macbooks and Pro models all use C2D cpu's, only difference being the L2 cache size on some. Bigger HD won't matter much because if I'm right, your friend has the same Macbook as mine and can be upgraded in no time, as the cover underneath can be removed with a built in lever. Ram can also be upgraded as a friend of mine did this with his refurb Macbook Pro purchased at the same time as mine.

The main difference is the battery. The latest Macbooks and Pro's use a significantly redesigned battery that offers a lot longer battery life, upto around 6-7hrs compared to older models including mine that can reach about 4-5hrs.
 
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Is it the silver Macbook?

If it is, they're good machines, the main bugbear was lack of firewire, but if you don't need it won't bother you, and they're good laptops.

If it's a white one, same still applies really only they do have firewire.

The new white macbook is vastly better than the old one (7 hour battery, much better screen, better touchpad, new enclosure), BUT the older style are still great machines. I've got a macbook that's over two years old now and it's cracking. Still gets used daily.

The new macbook with the Applecare would be almost bang on a grand, when you look at it that way it's a good deal :)
 
Kainz said:
Sounds like my Macbook Hybrid Unibody that I purchased off the refurb store in August for £730. It was meant to have that exact spec but I got a 4GB, 250GB version instead with a backlit keyboard.

Your machine coupled with the Applecare till 2012 I would say is a very good deal. OSX flies on my rig with that same cpu. Iirc AppleCare for me will set me back another £200 and I've got to get it soon...
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Check out fleabay for our Applecare. Got mine for £85.
 
The white macbook got an update recently which meant it got the newer screen, trackpad, went to a unibody design and got the built in 7 hour battery - this was about a month ago.

Previous to that it had around a 4 - 5 hour battery life.
 
khimbar said:
Where from? :eek:
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I friend who bought it, used it prolly 6 times (over 12months) and just didn't understand [get?] osx and couldn't be arsed to learn it so went out a bought another HP lappy with Win7 and asked me if I wanted it.

PtW - that sounds just like what I get on mine.
 
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