MacBooks?

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Hello everyone,

Thinking of selling my mac mini that i bought around mid October07, since then installed Leopard and since i was a "Switcher" am now pleased with my Mac.

However now i'm thinking of selling it and buying a macbook instead, so with the money i think i can raise from sale of said mac mini want to see about buying a mac book should i buy a used one with the 802.11g standard wifi or the latest mac book with 802.11n standard as i have 20mb cable broadband and use a 'Time Capsule' with the 802.11n standard too will it make a difference speed wise for browsing etc?

Many thanks for your opinions in advance :D
 
the difference will not be that noticeable on the broadband. So if you want to save some penny's get a second hand one, otherwise new and fresh all the way.
 
iraiguana said:
the difference will not be that noticeable on the broadband. So if you want to save some penny's get a second hand one, otherwise new and fresh all the way.
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Could do with saving money so tempted to go for a second hand one, but with the new having the 'N' standard wifi that's edging it a touch as i thought 'N' wifi would be noticeable. But from your experience if you say i won't notice then that's good enough for me. ;)
 
You'd notice it doing file transfers on your LAN, but not with Internet access since 802.11 G is already more than twice as fast as necessary for your Interwebs.

BTW, What WAP are you using? Do you like it?
 
The biggest problem with the old MacBooks is that they are only Core Duos. Any Core 2 Duo MacBook has 802.11n.
 
Caged said:
The biggest problem with the old MacBooks is that they are only Core Duos. Any Core 2 Duo MacBook has 802.11n.
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Ok that's good info, i may just hold out buying one then for a while and try and get one from the states. ;)
 
It would have to be first-gen to be a Core Duo though. I bought mine in November 2006 after the move to Core 2 Duos, would have thought they would be pretty decently priced second hand by now.
 
Caged said:
It would have to be first-gen to be a Core Duo though. I bought mine in November 2006 after the move to Core 2 Duos, would have thought they would be pretty decently priced second hand by now.
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So yours is 'N' wifi standard then?

Uhmm been looking @ the bay and they're still going for anything £400 upwards, seeing that the new ones if i can get one from the states i can basically pick one up for the equivalent of what we pay here but without the VAT.
 
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It was the generation that Apple sold the 802.11n software update for, but is activated as standard by installing Leopard.
 
Ok thanks that makes sense to me as I remember them being sold plus having that update via software, so that means anything that was bought the end of 2007 @ start of this year is wifi n & also core 2 duo too.
Thanks for that info, I may just save myself some £'s.
 
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