Mac Book Pro Price Drop
Who thinks that when the 17" mac book pro comes out, the curent 15.4" will go down in price. I know that no one really knows, but what do you think?
If it is now $2299 (Canadian Dollars), what would you guess it would come down to?
Personally I don't thaink that it will come down considering that it came out at the same price as the 15" powerbook. but then again, the 17" powerbook came down from about $4000 to $3000.
Any Ideas?
I so far have had a terrible experience with Apple products. I switched from PCs to Macs. Even my Powerbook had a whine. Customer service is ridiculous. When I wanted to upgrade the hard drive, I had a horrid experience. No one knew how to get it done. Apple store guys here didn't even know that could be done. Let me not get started telling you about how arrogant these Apple folks are.
Upgrading anything is such a pain. Apple certainly doesn't believe in their customers' abilities or they know their products are not robust enough. You have to spend so much on getting upgrades done from these Apple techs who are supposed to be good at what they do. The Apple tech at Compusa where I took my Powerbook to, installed my hard drive and couldn't put it back well. The RAM was not properly put back, screws were switched all over. Oooff! Let me just stop before I get too annoyed and start cursing.
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I'm not a technophile (mainly use my laptop for writing--my profession--and eBay business) so my sister told me to make sure that I had at least 8 GB and a fast processing speed. Retina display not necessary (her graphic artists friends hate it apparently) so that would lower the price; however it seems that there are two releases: Oct 2013 and July 2014. Read up on the latest release but not sure how much is necessary for to have...or care about.
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Both are available at Apple. Both come with 1 year and 3-year extended warranties and both have the standard software installed, including Pages.
One more thing....Wondering if having Flash Storage is important? Only refurbished one (see below) has it.
Prices for both end up being almost the same--around $1250 out the door, including tax.
OPTION #1 NEW LAPTOP. July 2014 Release NON RETINA DISPLAY
2.5GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
4GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x2GB - NOTE: I WOULD HAVE THIS UPGRADED TO 8 MG
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SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
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Intel Iris GraphicsHmm... I'm not really sure where you found a July 2014 release without a retina display. I think it might be the old version because that laptop was last updated in 2012 (to my understanding. Also, your sister is kind of wrong, if you want a computer that will work well for everyday things, 4gb of ram is just fine. I have a three year old MacBook Air with 4gb of ram and do things in Photoshop, Illustrator, Pixelmator, FCP, etc. all the time running OS X Yosemite and it runs like brand new. However, if you want to future proof it, you might want 8gb so it can always run the latest OSes.
Flash Storage is amazingly fast compared to a Hard Drive. It also has no moving parts, therefore is much more durable, and much more likely to survive a drop than a Hard Drive (which would seem to be useful in your situation).
Also, I don't know why your sister's friends would hate the Retina display. Many people love it because it gives them the ability to edit pixel by pixel with perfect accuracy.
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I hope I helped.
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Bought my Mac book pro 18 hours ago!!!!!
Hi guys
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Start the computer,then press and hold down command and R keys to start into recovery partition.
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