Does Apple offer trade-ins?

[Andrew07]

I bought a 17'' MBP about 3-4 months ago, but have found that 17 inches is a bit too big to be carrying to lectures and such, and would like to downgrade to the 15'' model. Sorry if this is a silly question, but does Apple offer any sort of trade-in deal? I upgraded to 4gb of RAM and the 160GB 7200 drive

 

[Acehigh]

I bought a 17'' MBP about 3-4 months ago, but have found that 17 inches is a bit too big to be carrying to lectures and such, and would like to downgrade to the 15'' model. Sorry if this is a silly question, but does Apple offer any sort of trade-in deal? I upgraded to 4gb of RAM and the 160GB 7200 drive

Nope....you can sell yours and buy a new one.

 

[ivi7]

Unfortunately, No

 

[Andrew07]

Oh well. One other question...I've never sold a used computer before. If I do a complete reinstall, will all of my personal and financial information that may be on the computer be unretrievable?

 

[ivi7]

Oh well. One other question...I've never sold a used computer before. If I do a complete reinstall, will all of my personal and financial information that may be on the computer be unretrievable?

I think that should be good enough.
At work when we salvage old used computers we destroy the hard drive though

 

[emptyCup]

Oh well. One other question...I've never sold a used computer before. If I do a complete reinstall, will all of my personal and financial information that may be on the computer be unretrievable?

To be sure you need to erase the drive by overwriting the entire drive. Restart from the disks that came with the computer. Select Disk Utility > Erase > Security Options. The more passes you choose the longer it will take (and it will take a long time). Then reinstall the OS.

 

[BigPrince]

To be sure you need to erase the drive by overwriting the entire drive. Restart from the disks that came with the computer. Select Disk Utility > Erase > Security Options. The more passes you choose the longer it will take (and it will take a long time). Then reinstall the OS.

DOD standards is 3 wipes. All one character(1 or 0), then its complement, then random.

The minimum you can do with secure erase either a Zero out option which is one pass of all Zero's or 7 wipes which was the old DOD standard.

I would do a zero out with my own computer.