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17" MBPs for $1,800--Did anyone else get in on it?

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MikeL

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Did anyone else get in on $1,800 MBPs that Springboard Media was clearing out today? I picked up two. Not a bad price at all for the machines. 2.6Ghz, 2GB/200GB with the HD screen. They're the previous revision, but it's hard to wrong at that price.
 
whoa! sadly i did not... those are the current gen mbp's...$3200 from apple.

are those used or new in box?

mjb
 
antmo said:
whoa! sadly i did not... those are the current gen mbp's...$3200 from apple.

are those used or new in box?

mjb
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no, he could be right about them being last gen. There was a BTO option to go up to 2.6 Ghz, even on the last generation. Definitely makes more sense that they would sell the older model at that price.
 
They're new. Some people at FatWallet have said that they've gotten their shipping confirmations already. The salesman I talked to said that mine would ship on Wednesday--I was amongst the last to get in on the deal today, I think.
 
MikeL said:
Did anyone else get in on $1,800 MBPs that Springboard Media was clearing out today? I picked up two. Not a bad price at all for the machines. 2.6Ghz, 2GB/200GB with the HD screen. They're the previous revision, but it's hard to wrong at that price.
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I was able to get one. Got a shipping confirmation and it will be here on Tuesday. Word has it it is not the LED screen but a great deal anyways.
 
I purchased 2. I might not need the second one so if anyone wants one I'll sell it to them exactly what I paid for it $1,899 (1,799+100 for 2 extra gigs of ram).
 
On apple's refurb store they have a 2.33 ghz 17in MBP for 1900. But no I did not get in on these deals.
 
Its brand new sealed of the "merom" last generation with 256mb vram nvidia 17" mbp with hi res (non led). Its a pretty good price for being brand new sealed.
 
thanks for using macrumors.com, and i hope we could have been of help.

i'd sell the second one - it'll be easy. but watch out, there'll be updates coming up soon!
 
SphericalPear said:
thanks for using macrumors.com, and i hope we could have been of help.

i'd sell the second one - it'll be easy. but watch out, there'll be updates coming up soon!
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I am a little skeptical about the whole craigslist/ebay thing. What do you think I can get for it? Worse case I can always return it, they offer a 14 day return policy. I am really hoping the updates come soon but I doubt it will be this Tuesday.
 
I got one as well. They sold our right after I bought it, so I didn't post about it here.

My sister saw it on FatWallet and ordered one, so I jumped on board. The same one refurb. on Apple.com was almost $1000 more!

I got it yesterday and it has the multitouch pad. Does that mean it is a new model? How can I check it to see what generation it is?

New Mac convert and lovin it! Good bye Windows.
 
pocketdoc said:
I got one as well. They sold our right after I bought it, so I didn't post about it here.

My sister saw it on FatWallet and ordered one, so I jumped on board. The same one refurb. on Apple.com was almost $1000 more!

I got it yesterday and it has the multitouch pad. Does that mean it is a new model? How can I check it to see what generation it is?

New Mac convert and lovin it! Good bye Windows.
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So jealous 🙁

Nice work though!

Jeff
 
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