Model Refurbished MacBook - White Processor 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L2 cache 3MB shared System bus 800MHz Memory 1GB (two 512MB) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); supports up to 4GB Hard drive 120GB Serial ATA; 5400 rpm Slot-loading optical drive Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) Graphics Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory Video Built-in iSight camera; mini-DVI output port with support for DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite video (requires adapters, sold separately) Display 13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy TFT widescreen display, 1280 by 800 resolution FireWire One FireWire 400 port (up to 400 Mbps) USB Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps) Audio Built-in stereo speakers, built-in omnidirectional microphone, combined optical digital audio input/audio line in, combined optical digital audio output/audio line out Networking Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet Wireless Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification)2; built-in Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) module Hardware accessories 60W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, power cord, lithium-polymer battery Height 1.08 inches (2.75 cm) Width 12.78 inches (32.5 cm) Depth 8.92 inches (22.7 cm) Weight 5.0 pounds (2.27 kg)
RAM is not as big a deal as you would think, unless you have specific needs. OS X Leopard only requires 512MB, most macs will run quite nicely on 1GB. Had a bad ram stick in my MBP a while back and had to run on 1GB until the replacement arrived. Was surprised how well things still ran.
miscrms said: RAM is not as big a deal as you would think, unless you have specific needs. OS X Leopard only requires 512MB, most macs will run quite nicely on 1GB. Had a bad ram stick in my MBP a while back and had to run on 1GB until the replacement arrived. Was surprised how well things still ran.
Running OS X on 512MB is like a driving a race car with a 87 octane gas. And frankly there is no good reason to have anything less than 2GB these days with RAM being so insanely cheap. You can get a 2x1GB SODIMM kit for $25 so why suffer with less. Personally all my Macs have 4GB. If you open up Activity Monitor you'll see how much RAM is used w/ just iTunes, Firefox, Word, and iCal open. Now open up something like iPhoto and you are in molassas city if you only have 1GB RAM. All that disk swaping for virtual memory. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
BTW, for anyone who is buying, remember you qualify for a $10 upgrade to 10.6 (Snow Leopard). LINK
zeps7784 said: Remember if you are a teacher or know of one, take them to the Apple Store with their license and get your macbook tax free I don't think you can avoid paying tax for being a teacher unless you purchase in a tax free state.
u2head8 said: zeps7784 said: Remember if you are a teacher or know of one, take them to the Apple Store with their license and get your macbook tax free I don't think you can avoid paying tax for being a teacher unless you purchase in a tax free state.
Ohio is not a tax free state I was able to do it. Call ahead to your local store and check.
Chupa said: miscrms said: RAM is not as big a deal as you would think, unless you have specific needs. OS X Leopard only requires 512MB, most macs will run quite nicely on 1GB. Had a bad ram stick in my MBP a while back and had to run on 1GB until the replacement arrived. Was surprised how well things still ran.
Running OS X on 512MB is like a driving a race car with a 87 octane gas. And frankly there is no good reason to have anything less than 2GB these days with RAM being so insanely cheap. You can get a 2x1GB SODIMM kit for $25 so why suffer with less. Personally all my Macs have 4GB. If you open up Activity Monitor you'll see how much RAM is used w/ just iTunes, Firefox, Word, and iCal open. Now open up something like iPhoto and you are in molassas city if you only have 1GB RAM. All that disk swaping for virtual memory. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
BTW, for anyone who is buying, remember you qualify for a $10 upgrade to 10.6 (Snow Leopard). LINK
I have 10.4.11 running on a 500MHz G3 iMac with 256MB Don't confuse the amount of memory a program has reserved with what its actually using. Macs are very good at sharing the reserved but unused portion of memory without getting into heavy swapping. Thats one nice feature they inherited from their Unix cousins. The above imac does great with terminal, server monitor, RAID admin all open while web surfing in firefox. Anything more than that and it starts slowing down. IPhoto can be a hog if you have a lot of pics, as I believes it stores all the thumbnails in active memory to keep scrolling fast. I have about 15,000 pics in my library on the MBP. When 2GB is available it reserves over 1GB. When I was down to 1GB, it still ran fine with other programs open, no noticeable swapping. That was under Tiger though, come to think of it. I installed Leopard after replacing the RAM.
More memory is always better, and memory is cheap as you say. I just didn't want anyone to think this machine was unusable out of the box. For many people its got all they'll ever need. For the rest, upgrading is cheap and easy.
zeps7784 said: u2head8 said: zeps7784 said: Remember if you are a teacher or know of one, take them to the Apple Store with their license and get your macbook tax free I don't think you can avoid paying tax for being a teacher unless you purchase in a tax free state.
Ohio is not a tax free state I was able to do it. Call ahead to your local store and check. can anyone confirms this works in nyc?
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