buying & customising a macbook pro

[EdwardJack]

Okay as your all aware, MacBooks are expensive, now I need a laptop for my studies, home media, personal browsing and gaming. I'm one year too young to apply for the student discounts so I was planning on buying the cheaper 15" MacBook pro, however I want 8gb Ram and a solid state drive, so do you know where I could get either for a cheaper price than the additional £500 it would cost?

 

[Hellhammer]

OWC 2x4GB - 239$

eBuyer 128GB Kingston SSD - 189£

 

[Piehead]

thats quite a lot of power for school work/regular usage - are you sure you need a SDD AND 8 GB of RAM, what are you doing?

A C2D could handle these needs just fine - if you want to save some money... haha.