macbook pro refurb or new?

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im looking to buy myself a macbook pro 15 around christmas time when i get my yearly bonus from work. now my question is do i buy new or refurb.

my employers appears to have a discount scheme with apple where a macbook pro 15 will be £1400 brand new and a refurb one around 1290.

now would you rather pay the extra for brand new or take the discount.
 
Apple refurbs, in my experience, are basically as good as buying new. You still get your standard 1 year warranty like you would with a new product, so I'd go for the cheapest :)
 
I've bought a couple of refurbs, the only difference is the packaging, they come in boring plain brown boxes.
 
Echo the above few posts.

You can always return under DSR if for some reason you are not happy. It's not unheard of for the refurbs to turn up a better spec than you've ordered either. E.g., if it was originally intended for someone who upgraded the memory...
 
Refurb - they will be as good as new.

the only difference is that you don't have "experience" of opening the pretty box.

I always buy keyboards/mice/ipods etc refurb.
 
thanks all. i was all set to get refurb and then realised that work got discount and then started to think that i would rather pay an extra hundred for it to be brand new. largely because i wanted to open the packaging ect. lol
 
i forgot to mention that my imac came with a bigger hdd and more memory than advertised
 
i always go refurb - it takes more patience if you want a particular spec but in my opinion the savings are worth it and I've always got a better spec than advertised.

This new MBP i'm on now took 4 weeks to appear in the store (its a 15.4 Hi res anti-glare screen) but when it came 3days later it had a 7200rpm disk rather than the advertised 5400!
 
There's some good deals if you search around, I'm just waiting for a mbp 15 to arrive this week from a big chain store. It's the 2.4ghz I5 with 4gb ram, 320gb hd and std screen but it was at £1352 new + the website is running a 5% off laptops offer + 3.5% quidco cashback takes it to about £1240 which is much cheaper than I could find it any other way.

I'd liked to have the antiglare screen but couldn't really justify the extra cost since it's not my main machine, the 2.4ghz cpu still has turbo boost as well taking it to 2.9ghz and I'll probably put an ssd in as well in a few months time.
 
Umm high street chain of I think 3 sister companies, the one starting with D has the deal listed on the homepage :p

"APPLE MacBook Pro MC371B/A"
£1,352.26
+ the discounts
 
Well it arrived today and I have to say it's bloody lovely, the touchpad is just a work of art :D and makes browsing the internet with gestures really nice. God I might be a mac convert soon.
 
im jelous now mate was fiddling with a macbook at pcworld and wanted to get one. i found the discount above and looks really good. torn between a macbook and a 15 inch pro. just unsure whether to wait for next macbook pro update
 
Yeah it could be a few months away if they are waiting for sandybridge. Depending on what your doing with it I'm not sure you'd really need any extra cpu power? The weak side seems to only really be the gpu for gaming but then it's a tradeoff on battery life.
 
i wasnt looking at getting one till the end of christmas start of jan anyway so if there is an update coming out around that time then ill hold off. i will only be using it for email and web and thats about it really so the basic macbook would suffice. but i would prefer a 15 inch and really like the look of the pro.
 
Just thinking aloud but I'm definitely going refurbished if I can for the Mac Mini I'm after, although those seem like gold-dust on the actual refurb page itself. I know Brian8bit who posts on here and I think he got both his MBP and iMac 21.5" via the refurb store and is v. pleased with both.
 
Just make sure to shop around, the current refurb APPLE MacBook Pro MC371B/A is actually more than the deal listed above which is brand new :o the refurb deals are no where near as good as they should be.
 
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