I am not a technical person, "is it difficult to add more RAM to Mac Pro?"

chicolo said:I am not a technical person, "is it difficult to add more RAM to Mac Pro?"

No it is easy.
Check the details here

silverdeals said:The nVidea chip problem could have a serious impact on the resale value of these older laptops a year or 2 down the road.

I would say that the passage of time would have a serious impact on the resale value of these older laptops...

Who buys a 3 year old laptop?

thedealmaster said:RobL said:I'm a big Mac fanboy (my dogs name is Macs) but beware that there may be a serious NVIDEA card failure issue with this computer.


Yes, make sure you are covered if you buy one of these. Either the rip off Applecare or an extended warranty from someone else, but make sure you are covered. Scanning Mac Forums you will find plenty of people that had their GPU crap out a month or two after the regular warranty expired. I should note that Apple has recently announced that they will cover this GPU failure for year 2.

just use an AMEX card

OMFGWTF said:travfar said:OMFGWTF said:sardarji said:Why MacBook is expensive like Bose?

What's wrong with Dell or Gateway or Acer when you can get for under $300!

Show me a new 15" Dell, Gateway, or Acer laptop for under $300 and I'm buying 50 of them.

Well there was that Gateway for $325 at BB a few weeks back. Pretty much the same specs as the Macbook pro except for a 2.0Ghz CPU and lower screen resolution. Same 8600M with 512MB and it included 4GB of RAM. The CPU on the Gateway is also upgradable so people have been plopping in cheap high end CPUs off of eBay. Even now you can get them for $600 on eBay. So is this Macbook pro worth $900 more than that just for the Apple logo?

Hmm...lets see here: Comparing Apples to Gateways are already like comparing apples to oranges.

1) MBP has a T8400 CPU vs a T5750 for the gateway...big difference.
2) MBP has a 8600GT vs a ATI HD 2600 for the gateway...big difference.
3) Gateway deal involved using a coupon in a B&M store where YMMV was huge in terms of pricing and stock and coupon usage.
4) MBP is thinner, lighter, aluminum compared to plastic on the gateway.

Oh yea, all this is coming from a all PC guy. I'm not saying this apple deal is a good deal, but your comparisons are way off. Now show me a new 15" Dell, Gateway, or Acer laptop for under $300 without the YMMV where I can actually get in on the deal. Without me having to live in a certain area and depending on the CSR to take the coupon or not.

agreed

perfect comparisons between Macs and PCs are near impossible. its difficult to find a PC laptop that has:

• same or better thickness
  
• built in camera
  
• magsafe or similar power adapter technology
  
• metal exterior
  

So theres no way you can make an apples to apples comparison

I like Apple's OS and their laptops.

Having said that, I can't justify paying $814 more for an Apple notebook versus the Lenovo T61 I'm using right now, with a Penryn T8100 Core2 Duo and 3GB of RAM that I paid $630 for, including tax.

Edit - ewww. No FireWire port on this Apple???

Great deal, I get to spend an extra $700 - 900 bucks for a rather normal machine.......

sorry apple, Wintel or doorbell, I am not dropping that much for something that offer little more than a badge.

But hey if it makes you feel good go for it.

I am sticking to the hot deals.

nevermind

It appears to have both a FireWire 400 and a FireWire 800 port.

As mentioned earlier in thread this is previous generation so do not confuse new generation specs to this model such as no firewire, no matte screen etc.... these comments are about new generation macs as announced yesterday. [and in unboxing reports some are saying firewire is on the new macbook pros.]

Expensive? yes
Do I want one? yes
Will I get one? Maybe if I can figure it into my budget