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I bought a black MacBook from an Apple Store 10 days ago, so I still have 4 days in which to return it.

Obviously, I'd like swap it for the newest model. However, I'd prefer not to pay the 10 percent restocking fee.

My question: Have others who have been in this same situation (new owners of an Apple product that was replaced by a better model within the 14-day return period) been charged the restocking fee, or do the Apple Stores generally let it slide?

Go and find out for us. :D
 
im sad... i dnt care about the speed increase it's that the C2D's are 64bit and the core duos are only 32bit, doesnt matter much right now but in a couple years i invision apple only making a 64bit version OS, leaving the 32bitters out in the cold... :(
 
im sad... i dnt care about the speed increase it's that the C2D's are 64bit and the core duos are only 32bit, doesnt matter much right now but in a couple years i invision apple only making a 64bit version OS, leaving the 32bitters out in the cold... :(

By the time 32bit is abandoned, your macbook will be very obsolete. Think 7 years from now or more.
 
This begs the question...

im sad... i dnt care about the speed increase it's that the C2D's are 64bit and the core duos are only 32bit, doesnt matter much right now but in a couple years i invision apple only making a 64bit version OS, leaving the 32bitters out in the cold... :(

This begs the question: How long do people plan on keeping their computers, especially as their primary machine? I know on a site like this we have a lot of early and frequent adopters; but as a rule how long are we holding on to our macs?

I'm pretty much upgrading every two years now. I went from a G3 iBook to a G4 and I've also got a G5 iMac. I'm looking seriously at the new C2D Macbooks. I'd be shocked if Apple began creating OS's that were obsolete in +/- 2 years. An '06 Macbook should get us through the next two OS cycles at the very least IMHO.

Coachingguy
 
I have a Macbook, and my only complaints are:
1-The video card s*ck really hard time
2-The Macbook get really hot
3-The video card s*ck really big hard time

I have an iMac Core2 duo and it's look like blasting fast against the Macbook Core Duo. Okay the hard drive is for something but the video card make a whole difference. OS X love your video card and a GMA 950 just isn't enough to drive it correctly. Every animation is a pain, leave alone dashboard on those machine or your doom! Desktop Manager transistion is painfull, manipulating many window at the same time seem a hard task to do.

Not that I found the machine a real pain to use, but the video card should be an X1300 and then it would have been a real pleasure to use. Even with just 64 Mo the X1300 would have been great. I would have pay around 200$ more to get this into the Macbook and this well over a faster CPU. A Core 2 Duo @ 1.83Ghz with a X1300 64Mo well over a 2.16Ghz with a GMA950.
 
aww it kinda sucks the new blacks have more ram standard, but alas a 120 gig hd is not something i want oh my macbook external is much better.


im glad i got mine
 
i think that after 10+ years of complete apple elite-ism that i will have to get my first PC, every single computer that i and my family have owned has been a mac, BUT! i need a PC for gaming, plus macs dont really overclock that well now do they? but have no fear! i shall not taint my soul further than buying something as evil as a dell! i will build it myself, that way i can actually overclock the thing and it'll be about $1000 cheaper than buying any of that prebuilt trash! so wish me luck fellow macheads, one day i shall return, stonger then i have ever been before!

"SHAKALAKALAKA HIGH!!! *runs out into the night*
 
1GB standard! man that sucks! i wish i had waited a few months to get mine.


what? oh i forgot my cape, now im gone for real.
"SHAKALAKALAKA HIGH!!! *runs out into the night again*
 
i think that after 10+ years of complete apple elite-ism that i will have to get my first PC, every single computer that i and my family have owned has been a mac, BUT! i need a PC for gaming, plus macs dont really overclock that well now do they? but have no fear! i shall not taint my soul further than buying something as evil as a dell! i will build it myself, that way i can actually overclock the thing and it'll be about $1000 cheaper than buying any of that prebuilt trash! so wish me luck fellow macheads, one day i shall return, stonger then i have ever been before!

"SHAKALAKALAKA HIGH!!! *runs out into the night*

i forgive you....
:rolleyes:
 
All of these updates are absolutely killing me...

I have been using my 1ghz Titanium Powerbook for almost 3 1/2 years (and in that time I have not turned the machine off except for the occassional restart). I know it's time for me to get a new comp soon, but I am afraid that I won't love the new one as much as I love my Ti, or that it'll just "feel weird."

The C2Ds MBPs were enticing, but now these C2Ds MBs are just mocking me. What to do...what to do....

Do what I just did: order.

It's been 3.5 years for me, too -- I'll be moving from a perfectly functional, if outdated, 800 Mhz G3 iBook.

Love these machines: with the resale value, it works out to less than $400 per year.
 
Peter Makes A Joke Post

I currently have a 17" 1GHZ 2GB RAM Powerbook for Logic, FCP, and the Adobe CS Suite. Considering that it's three and a half years old now, how would it compare with a 2GHZ C2D Macbook with 2GB RAM? Obviously screen size would be an issue I'd have to deal with but I'm wondering if I would see a decent performance jump, or at least something close to what I have now. Thanks!
Peter. Is your post a joke or what? You're kidding right?

A 2GB 2GHz MB is RADICALLY faster than what you have. Buy a DELL 2407WFP 24" 1920x1200 for only $719.10 for it and you will be in heaven for just over $2k.
 
Do what I just did: order.

It's been 3.5 years for me, too -- I'll be moving from a perfectly functional, if outdated, 800 Mhz G3 iBook.

Love these machines: with the resale value, it works out to less than $400 per year.

i just ordered my macbook black w/ 2gb ram and 200gb HD - moving up from a 800mhz g4 powerbook ti and can't wait!
 
Just bought mine tonight at the Apple Store in Legacy Village. All I can say is... wow. I got the "blackbook", as I just like the look of it better. Upgraded from my old Powerbook Al 1.25Ghz, and wow... what a difference. Sucks I have to do a paper tonight -- been playing with the Macbook for a few hours now...
 
i think that after 10+ years of complete apple elite-ism that i will have to get my first PC, every single computer that i and my family have owned has been a mac, BUT! i need a PC for gaming, plus macs dont really overclock that well now do they? but have no fear! i shall not taint my soul further than buying something as evil as a dell! i will build it myself, that way i can actually overclock the thing and it'll be about $1000 cheaper than buying any of that prebuilt trash! so wish me luck fellow macheads, one day i shall return, stonger then i have ever been before!

"SHAKALAKALAKA HIGH!!! *runs out into the night*

Dude, you can overclock the x1600's in the MBP's no problem in bootcamp. This thing runs Battlefield 2142 like none other.
 
Dude, you can overclock the x1600's in the MBP's no problem in bootcamp. This thing runs Battlefield 2142 like none other.

You can do it even better on the iMac. I have the 2.0 ghz core duo iMac and I can overclock my x1600 to 515/550 or 560ish no problem, no artifacts even after playing BF2 for a couple of hours. My max frequencies are higher than that but I scaled it back to slightly reduce the risks of it going boom. :cool:
 
Just bought mine tonight at the Apple Store in Legacy Village. All I can say is... wow. I got the "blackbook", as I just like the look of it better. Upgraded from my old Powerbook Al 1.25Ghz, and wow... what a difference. Sucks I have to do a paper tonight -- been playing with the Macbook for a few hours now...

Figures someone who shops in Legacy Village would pay for a blackbook. :p

[For the same price as the stock blackbook, last week, I got a MBP with 256 MB of VRAM and a 1 GB SO-DIMM (which I quickly upgraded to 2 GB). Granted, it is only a 2.0 GHz Core Duo, but considering a lot of what I do is 3D modeling, it's still a much better buy than the MacBook. It stopped being available at the Apple Refurb Store online right after I ordered it, but my girlfriend got the same thing, only with a 2.16 GHz CD, and $100 more, a few days prior, and you can still get that one. For someone like me, who gets a new Mac about once a year, this was a much better buy, but you decide.]
 
Just bought mine tonight at the Apple Store in Legacy Village. All I can say is... wow. I got the "blackbook", as I just like the look of it better. Upgraded from my old Powerbook Al 1.25Ghz, and wow... what a difference. Sucks I have to do a paper tonight -- been playing with the Macbook for a few hours now...

could u post photos, pls?
 
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