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heres a look at invisible shield for mbpr
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I've probably had too much rMBP on the brain lately while waiting for my BTO rMBP to arrive. I also got a Wrapsol...not just the film covers, but also the grip pad for the bottom.
I'm very curious about the grip pad, wasn't aware they were making them for the macbooks as well, thought they only made the small pad for the iPad. Would love to hear your opinion on it when it arrives, and maybe a photo too
.I'm very curious about the grip pad, wasn't aware they were making them for the macbooks as well, thought they only made the small pad for the iPad. Would love to hear your opinion on it when it arrives, and maybe a photo too
I've got the Wrapsol kit, but not the rMBP. I'll take some pics once it's installed. I can tell you the grip is a 6"x10" piece of gray material. It's thin and super grippy.
It's not about whether you agree or not, it's about whether my statement is true or not.
A Invisible Shield currently costs 55 dollars. A reasonable gauge on the usable life of a notebook can be assumed to be 3 years.
In three years 800-900 dollars would be a reasonable price to sell your MBP for. (Source: http://www.ebay.com/csc/Laptops-Net...+2009&_dmpt=Apple_Laptops&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc )
You are saying that not having some light scratches/scuff marks is worth 55 dollars to the next buyer? Because the plastic won't protect it from anything more than a light scratch or scuff mark so dents and the like do not enter the equation. If you actually believe that I have a slightly used bridge that you may be interested in.
It all depends on the user. Everyone uses their laptop in different environments and some tend to get more scratches than others. I don't know anything regarding the invisible shield but I've used speck cases before that have protected against some serious scratches.
Furthermore it all depends on how you market it when you resell it. I've always kept my MacBook Pro in mint condition and using pictures to show the condition compared to other sellers nets me more resale value. Personally I wouldn't spend $55 dollars on a skin because I'm likely to get nothing back on it. Instead a speck case I could always sell and get up to 50% back. Usually I just keep it and use it with my next macbook pro.
Is your statement true, yeah it maybe in some cases. It all depends on how likely someone is to really screw up the condition of their macbook without having a skin or speck case compared to if they did. Something in mint condition selling against one in used condition with a ton of scratches will likely be worth the investment into a durable skin or case. But a mint one against one that is likely used probably won't make too much of a difference in price.
Well neither this thread nor my point concerned hard cases; moreover, this thread does concern the purchase of a 55 dollar skin and my argument is predicated on the fact that $55 is a lot of money to stop light scratches and scuffs.
My qualm against the application of transparent films is that they don't protect against enough to warrant the price of the film and the decreased aesthetics of the machine. The former point could be argued against in some circumstances but the former is a truism. There is no way that using and looking at a macbook with a layer of plastic over it is preferable to without.