Buying a Refurbished MacBook Pro

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maxxx6969

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I was interested in buying a Refurbished macbook pro through apple. I'm just wondering has anyone had any trouble or any comments or info they can give me before purchasing. How is apples refurbished products? Also i was looking into getting the

2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
15.4-inch widescreen display
2GB memory
120GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight Camera

for 200- dollars more they have this one:
15.4-inch widescreen display
2GB memory
120GB hard drive
6x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight camera

What's the dif. btwn the two? Just the Speed? Any help on this would be great thanks.
 
maxxx6969 said:
I was interested in buying a Refurbished macbook pro through apple. I'm just wondering has anyone had any trouble or any comments or info they can give me before purchasing. How is apples refurbished products? Also i was looking into getting the

2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
15.4-inch widescreen display
2GB memory
120GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 128MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight Camera

for 200- dollars more they have this one:
15.4-inch widescreen display
2GB memory
120GB hard drive
6x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight camera

What's the dif. btwn the two? Just the Speed? Any help on this would be great thanks.
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Difference is just the video card. Matter of preference really. On an Apple I'd just get the cheaper one, not like you'll be gaming on it or anything.

A lot of people will tell you to stay away, but the truth is there's really nothing wrong with an Apple, I use a MacBook as my day to day laptop around school and love it. I have a custom built PC in my room for anything the mac won't run. As long as you know what you're getting as far as some minor compatibility issues ect. go for it.
 
Hey, yea the proc. are the same speed. Cool, I was thinking about getting it and thn installing leopard on it in October and being able to run both windows and OS X at the same time and windows, like you said, for anything the mac wont run itself. Its got a pretty good video card and its a shame cause all these great games aren't mac compatible but if I installed leopard would I be able to run them?
 
Refurbished mac's are basically as good as new. When they refurbish them they check everything is working, replacing the parts that don't. all refurbs also get brand new cases so you dont have to worry about scratches.
 
Awesome, that was another question i forgot to ask about the cases. Thanks so much guys for all the help it really is appriciated. Now i just gotta figure out if dropping close to $2000- for the notebook and the warranty is a good idea right now.
 
I have one similar to the second one you posted.
I love it, best notebook I ever used.
And apple is great if you have a problem they help as quickly as possible.
It's diffrent than windows but its easy to use hope you like it
 
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