Buying a Macbook Pro

[koffiejunkie]

i7 Macbook Air is awesome. koffiejunkie how much battery life do you get out of yours and on what brightness setting?

I don't have one. Yet.

What macbook do you have then?

MacBook Pro 4.1. It's the last or second-last pre-unibody. Hard drive is SATA, optical drive is IDE.

 

[bwana]

MacBook Pro 4.1. It's the last or second-last pre-unibody. Hard drive is SATA, optical drive is IDE.

Then you can still use a SATA drive in the bay.

The internal SuperDrive (DVD drive) of the non-unibody MacBook 13" and non-unibody MacBook Pro 15" is an IDE/PATA device. The MCE OptiBay converts, through hardware, between IDE/PATA and SATA so that you can use high performance, readily available 2.5" SATA hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSDs) in the optical bay of your system.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Then you can still use a SATA drive in the bay.

That may be, but it will still perform like an IDE drive (or worse). It's easier to just get a 750GB SATA drive - which, in fact, just arrived

 

[koffiejunkie]

That may be, but it will still perform like an IDE drive (or worse).

I know I'm being difficult, sorry. But I realized lately that the current crop of 2.5" 7200rpm SATA drives are really sufficient for my needs (although an SSD would be sweet), and that CPU is really where my bottleneck is right now.

 

[koos]

A friend of mine is going to the UK for 2 weeks and is willing to bring back a Mac laptop for me, is it worth it or can I just order one from Digicape?

 

[GPSJane]

A friend of mine is going to the UK for 2 weeks and is willing to bring back a Mac laptop for me, is it worth it or can I just order one from Digicape?

It's worth it. Tell him to take it out the packaging in case for our customs and he can also claim the tax back when he leaves the country.

 

[koos]

It's worth it. Tell him to take it out the packaging in case for our customs and he can also claim the tax back when he leaves the country.

thanks, will do. He is leaving tonight.

 

[Pooky]

A friend of mine is going to the UK for 2 weeks and is willing to bring back a Mac laptop for me, is it worth it or can I just order one from Digicape?

Definitely worth it although I am worried with mine if anything goes wrong as I'm not sure if Core will honour the warranty.

 

[noxibox]

thanks, will do. He is leaving tonight.

Taking it out the packaging will not make the slightest bit of difference other than making it easier to be inconspicuous. Without the South African customs form showing it was taken out the country with you or being able to produce a local proof of purchase you will be liable if they decide to search you.