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Bachi85

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Original poster
Apr 13, 2010
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A new battery and a fresh install of OSX/new HD for your 1.6 GHz would cost a fraction of the price of a new notebook and probably get you another year or two if you're not doing anything particularly heavy.

Just an option you don't seem to be considering that would address both the problems you cited with your current lappy.

That's no option, my HDD is physically broke (or worse the controller at the mainboard) and everytime I move my laptop or put it on a shaky underground (e.g. my lap) it crushes down. 40 mins of battery are also inacceptable and believe me, I have set this thing up a million times and tweaked everything possible like RAM etc.

Seems like I have to go with a MBP...
 
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