Good 2006 Macbook deal?

beckster · 11 Sep 2008 at 04:41

Have a friend wanting to sell me his 2006 Macbook. It's the 2.0ghz Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo), 1GB, 100GB HDD version with a superdrive. He is asking £300. Seemed pretty good to me. It's either this or a MSI Wind for about the same price.

Bengaboy · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:03

can't go wrong for £300 really - definitly get it over the msi wind.

ca9phoenix · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:14

I'd buy it for £300 good value system

JAMAL · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:19

I'd have that over a wind any day of the week!

LordSplodge · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:26

That's a no brainer. Much better than the Wind or Eee PC and still small enough to be easily portable.

Pav89 · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:38

I'm getting the wind today, then kalywaying it all the way! can't wait!

. Buyt yeah, thats £20 more than the wind, I would get it if I had the opportunity. I was hoping apple would release new macbooks 2 days ago but it never happened, so getting this wind!

ca9phoenix · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:40

Pav89 said:
I'm getting the wind today, then kalywaying it all the way! can't wait! . Buyt yeah, thats £20 more than the wind, I would get it if I had the opportunity. I was hoping apple would release new macbooks 2 days ago but it never happened, so getting this wind!

Fail!

Pav89 · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:42

ca9phoenix said:
Fail!

What else am I suppose to do? :confused:

ca9phoenix · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:47

buy the mac not the wind.

it's faster more practical and dosen't run windows/linux!

Pav89 · 11 Sep 2008 at 09:59

I can't face buying a £600 mac when I know that they are 2+ years old in design and new ones are just round the corner! I've waited for the past 5-6 months holding off buying a new portable computer, waiting for 9th of september but it never happened....

beckster · 11 Sep 2008 at 10:26

Actually he only wants £260 for it now. Going to collect it tonight. I have never used a mac before so expect lots of questions from me later

. Thanks for the help!

ca9phoenix · 11 Sep 2008 at 10:37

Pav89 said:
I can't face buying a £600 mac when I know that they are 2+ years old in design and new ones are just round the corner! I've waited for the past 5-6 months holding off buying a new portable computer, waiting for 9th of september but it never happened....

appologies i thought you were the op.

yes buying a new macbook now would be silly but if like the op you were offered one for sub £300 i'd snap their hand off.

I retract my FAIL! and ad it to myself for not checking who you are!

ca9phoenix · 11 Sep 2008 at 10:38

beckster said:
Actually he only wants £260 for it now. Going to collect it tonight. I have never used a mac before so expect lots of questions from me later . Thanks for the help!

ask away.... i'm a month in converting from Microsoft to Apple and will not look back.

be prepared to scratch a bald spot in your head for the next few days or so tho!

JAMAL · 11 Sep 2008 at 10:53

Pav89 said:
What else am I suppose to do?

Wait till october 14th!

LordSplodge · 11 Sep 2008 at 10:53

Pav89 said:
I can't face buying a £600 mac when I know that they are 2+ years old in design and new ones are just round the corner! I've waited for the past 5-6 months holding off buying a new portable computer, waiting for 9th of september but it never happened....

If you waited for the new model in Apples line up you'd never buy one. Get the MacBook if you can afford it. So much better than the Wind.

It is a bit like buying Smart Price beans vs Tesco Finest.

Pav89 · 11 Sep 2008 at 12:37

Well, I've got my wind and just installing OS X, can't bloody wait! I'm only using it for light work / taking it to lectures, I have my main PC for the rest!

LordSplodge · 11 Sep 2008 at 12:52

Pav89 said:
Well, I've got my wind and just installing OS X, can't bloody wait!

What the hell?

That makes me sick.

Pav89 · 11 Sep 2008 at 12:56

LordSplodge said:
What the hell?

That makes me sick.

Give me £300 more so I could afford a mac which is outdated and needs an upgrade

. I'm working my ass off already and am at uni. What do you expect? Smart price always!

LordSplodge · 11 Sep 2008 at 13:58

Pav89 said:
Give me £300 more so I could afford a mac which is outdated and needs an upgrade . I'm working my ass off already and am at uni. What do you expect? Smart price always!

A University student without a MacBook, how uncool!

Hope OS X on the Wind goes OK, maybe it will encourage you to get a proper Mac.

What is outdated with the MacBook anyway?

Pav89 · 11 Sep 2008 at 15:22

LordSplodge said:
A University student without a MacBook, how uncool! Hope OS X on the Wind goes OK, maybe it will encourage you to get a proper Mac.

What is outdated with the MacBook anyway?

Well, we got our first mac when I was 6 years ols, the Mac Performa, LOVED IT! So, haven't used a mac OS for 10 years, then on Sunday the priest at my church asked me if I wanted his iMac G3 he didn't need anymore, he's a cool priest because he's got one of the newest, high specced powerbooks! So I took on installing OS X on it and I was amazed :eek:

. The only problem is that it dragged so much on the 333mhz processor.

I was just so waiting for new macs to be released, but meh. This Wind I am using to take on the train, taking it to campus etc, I feel safer with it rather than an expensive mac. I will then eventually buy a mac to replace my main desktiop puter because I am in love with OS X.