Apple Mac Lovers

[SuperBowlNachos]

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Do Macs have something super special about them that make them retain their value? A guy on a facebook buy/sell group is selling a 2007 model Macbook with 1gb RAM, 13" screen and only a dual core cpu. Wants $350 for it.

[ab713]

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Do Macs have something super special about them that make them retain their value? A guy on a facebook buy/sell group is selling a 2007 model Macbook with 1gb RAM, 13" screen and only a dual core cpu. Wants $350 for it.

Nope, nothing special. That is just the market for a mac.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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So I guess my offer of $75 won't fly.

[ScoobySnax]

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That's one of the best things about buying Mac. They hold their value for a long time. Some people are turned off buy them because they can be looked at as "status symbols." Even though some people are ridiculously vain like that, they really are great machines.

[Chrisksaint]

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When I went to talk to a guy at an Apple Store during my Easter Weekend back home just to get information I wasn't aware how long they lasted, don't slow down nearly as much as pc's,etc. Seems like a worthy long term investment for the rest of my college life and then into teaching.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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When I went to talk to a guy at an Apple Store during my Easter Weekend back home just to get information I wasn't aware how long they lasted, don't slow down nearly as much as pc's,etc. Seems like a worthy long term investment for the rest of my college life and then into teaching.

I think a sales person at store selling PCs would tell you the same thing about their product.

[Chrisksaint]

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I think a sales person at store selling PCs would tell you the same thing about their product.

Maybe so, but I've heard stories to back up those claims and most of my PCs become terrible after awhile.

[ab713]

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Macs are great machines, but they are overpriced for the specs that you receive when compared to their PC counterparts. I have an Intel i5 Mac Mini that I use for development and it runs like a champ. One major positive they have is their build quality. These things are rock solid and well designed.

[rsnomar05]

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When I went to talk to a guy at an Apple Store during my Easter Weekend back home just to get information I wasn't aware how long they lasted, don't slow down nearly as much as pc's,etc. Seems like a worthy long term investment for the rest of my college life and then into teaching.

Depends on how you plan on using the machine. I have a 15" Macbook Pro (used for portability, since my 17" Asus gaming laptop is much larger and heavier) and love it. But on that laptop I'm only ever word-processing and web-browsing and occasionally movie watching, since I leave my gaming for the 17". If you look online, the Macbook Pros with higher-end components are rife with overheating to the point where many people can't do graphics/processor heavy tasks for more than 30 minutes before the computer shuts down on them (Apple has a built in fail-safe to protect its hardware that shuts the notebook down if temps exceed 90 degrees Celsius).

The reason for this is simple, Apple's case design is flawed. In an effort to make the Macbooks thin and stylish, they've had to pack components that generate a lot of heat into a small, enclosed space. To make matters worse, the vent is too small, and there aren't enough fans. On top of this, the genius design engineers decided to make the CPU and GPU share the same heat sink and place the CPU (processor) right under the GPU (graphics card). Couple that with the fan placement, and this means the heat of the CPU gets blown over the GPU to get to the vent and escape the system. So the processor actually heats up the GPU.

It's really a shame, because aside from this issue, Macs are impeccably designed systems, and while I love Windows 7 on my Asus, Mac OS is even better.

If you do a Google search for "Macbook Pro Overheating" you'll find link after link describing the issue. I'm hoping if it starts happening to my 15" a cooling pad will fix the problem.

[rsnomar05]

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Maybe so, but I've heard stories to back up those claims and most of my PCs become terrible after awhile.

Macs can become slower as well, but if you have a dual hard-drive setup you can mitigate this problem on PCs and Macs by having one hard-drive house the OS and the other house all your installed software, music, documents, etc. The reason why it takes so much longer on and older computer for the OS to load up when you boot the machine, for example, is because those computers have one hard-drive where system files are mixed in with non-OS files (like MP3's, game files, word-processing docs, etc.), and as you add more non-OS files to the hard-drive, it takes longer for the OS to find the files it needs for startup. But if you keep the OS on one hard-drive and all the non-OS files on another hard-drive, you won't run into this problem.

And with Macs now using the same internal hardware components as PCs, the salesman was surely talking through is you-know-what.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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Depends on how you plan on using the machine. I have a 15" Macbook Pro (used for portability, since my 17" Asus gaming laptop is much larger and heavier) and love it. But on that laptop I'm only ever word-processing and web-browsing and occasionally movie watching, since I leave my gaming for the 17".

This.

I know this is the Mac lovers thread, but if all you are going to do is browse facebook and write papers paying twice as much doesn't really make it a better investment. Employers and teachers are going to have MS Office and will want stuff in that format. So even if you get a Mac you are still going to be using MS Office.

[weeeeeeez]

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Still love my white unibody macbook. The only thing I don't like is it's not good for gaming.

[jvalverde88]

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Just recently the screen of my Macbook Pro cracked and I was wondering if anyone knew how much would it cost to fix it?

[Altimus]

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Still love my white unibody macbook. The only thing I don't like is it's not good for gaming.

Depends on the Macbook. Mine can run Diablo at high without issues.

[bkrich83]

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Depends on the Macbook. Mine can run Diablo at high without issues.

Same here my 13" MBP runs diablo on high flawlessly.