2011年4月27日星期三

Tips for a refurbished MacBook

The smartest place to get a refurbished MacBook Pro is from Apple’s online refurbished store. Go tostore.apple.com, and then scroll down the page looking for Refurbished Mac toward the bottom of the left-hand sidebar.
Apple’s refurbished store has a rotating inventory, so you’ll see Macs added and Macs disappear -- if they don’t have exactly what you want, keep checking back. All those Macs come with the same one-year warranty as a brand-new Mac, and they’re checked thoroughly by Apple before being sold, so it’s a much safer investment than, say, eBay or Craigslist where you’re buying from another individual.
Anyway, to choose a MacBook Pro, the first thing you’ll consider is screen size. The 13-inch is portable, the 17-inch is expansive, and the 15-inchDell d820 Battery,Compaq nc6400 battery  is a sweet spot right in between. We love the 15 and 13, but it’s really a personal preference. Then you can compare hard drive sizes -- bigger is better, of course. Same with RAM, although if a machine turns out to not have enough RAM, that’s relatively easy to add yourself after the fact and won’t void the warranty.
Apple’s MacBook Pro line is pretty standardized, so you don’t have to worry about price-bumping add-ons for the most part. (You can’t, for example, opt for a MacBook Pro without an SD card slot and save $50.) The only “upsell” that could cost you extra money is if one of the MacBook Pros for sale has an SSD, or solid-state disk, instead of a regular hard drive (HDD). Solid-state disks are made from nonmoving flash memory, so they’re faster, but they’re also more expensive and have smaller capacities, so if you see a Pro with a 128GB SSD and you’re wondering why it’s more expensive than another with a 320GB hard drive, that’s why. You’ll probably be happier with a bigger hard drive, so steer clear of the SSD unless you know you really want it.
The other thing that might not matter so much to you is the processor type and speed. From newest to oldest, the processors you’ll encounter are Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, and Core 2 Duo. A newer processor with a faster clock speed is preferable, especially if you do heavy-duty stuff like lots of video editing, heavy photo editing, gaming, and so on. But if you’re just using your Mac(Dell gw240 Battery,Toshiba Pa3356u-3bas Battery) for general computing tasks, you probably won’t notice that much of a difference. Just get the nicest one you can afford. And welcome a new Mac to your Mac life!
Other tipsters throughout the U.S. have also reported that their iMac shipments are tightening up as well.  However, it's not just the actual iMac shipments that are tightening, but actual iMac components as well, mainly iMac graphics processors, as well as hard drives.  The lack of said components can usually be a pretty good hint at a pending refresh.
The source in the Asian country is reporting that the 21.5 inch iMacs are becoming very constrained, moreover the 3.06 GHz model, and the other three models are close Dell studio 1535 battery  approaching the constrained state.
So if you're in the market to upgrade your current iMac, or wanting to add another Apple workhorse to your lineup, you may want to hold off for a little while longer!
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