HELP! Macbook pro - refurbished buying tips

[iangibson]

Hey is it worth it to pay an extra $150.00 for 50gbs extra hard drive, .1ghz extra processor, and 512mb for video instead of 256?

This is of course for a Macbook Pro, the previous generations model.
These are the specs for the more expensive one:

Part Number: FB134LL/A
2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
250GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8X (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
Backlit Keyboard (English) / User's Guide

Cheeper specs:

Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
15.4-inch glossy widescreen display
2GB memory
200GB hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
Built-in iSight Camera
(but not glossy screen)

please someone give me an opinion!

Ian

[Scepticalscribe]

My general advice would be to buy the best machine you can afford to buy, but in truth, that will depend on your own computing needs (which you have not mentioned; what will you be using this computer for? What will you msinly do with it? Do you really need/want all of the extras, or simply think they might be useful?) Both machines are excellent computers - I have a MBP myself and I'm very happy with it, it's the best computer I have ever had.

Cheers and good luck

[Scottsdale]

For the extra video memory alone, I would pay that price.

[six.four]

I'm a cheapass, but I think the step up is worth the $150 for sure.

[jaicen]

the key difference with the 2.5 vs. the 2.4 is that you get 6Mb L2 cache vs. 3Mb

[natebookpro]

the key difference with the 2.5 vs. the 2.4 is that you get 6Mb L2 cache vs. 3Mb

Good call there. I would say thats worth the $150 just as much as those other things put together.