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I'm buying a MacBook Pro Tomorrow [DECISIONS]
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Thanks for your replies guys. I don't travel that much and I have a Dell mini 10 w/ OSX for meetings and basic note taking so I'll get the 17" since it lives at my desk 12 hours a day and I use it at home another 6 hours when I get home.
I went to the apple store today and the 17" was pretty awesome just for the screen size, pixel density and color quality. I really enjoyed using it. The size wasn't that much of a difference over my 15" MBP.
I went to the apple store today and the 17" was pretty awesome just for the screen size, pixel density and color quality. I really enjoyed using it. The size wasn't that much of a difference over my 15" MBP.
My take on the issue: there IS a quantum jump in non-portability in
going from the 15 to the 17. The 1.5 Gbps vs 3.0 Gbps sounds like a
non-issue. I have used the 17" at work, and I really find it too bulky --
it's a beautiful machine, but not the road-warrior of my dreams...
Also, are you sure that _current_ CTO SSDs are as poor as the one
you had? A related question (since I'm considering the same choice)
is, can i expect a difference in performance between the current CTO
256GB SSD and the 128GB SSD? Are they both made by Samsung?
going from the 15 to the 17. The 1.5 Gbps vs 3.0 Gbps sounds like a
non-issue. I have used the 17" at work, and I really find it too bulky --
it's a beautiful machine, but not the road-warrior of my dreams...
Also, are you sure that _current_ CTO SSDs are as poor as the one
you had? A related question (since I'm considering the same choice)
is, can i expect a difference in performance between the current CTO
256GB SSD and the 128GB SSD? Are they both made by Samsung?
I $200 is nothing. Its like a restaurant bill
wow!! i don't think i've ever had a $200 restaurant bill. but then again, i'm but a poor vet student. if you buy, i can offer good conversation and cleavage, lol.
If you're getting worse performance than with an HDD, something is wrong. Apple doesn't use really fast SSDs, but the ones they do still beat any laptop hard drive hands down. Although I agree you'd be better off with Intel's SSD.
What? I'd be miffed if I got landed with a 200 dollar restaurant bill
Per person? 200 isn't a lot if it includes wine.
Yeah per person because that's the analogy isn't it - $200 is the difference between the two MBP models that one person (the OP) would pay..
We drink wine when we're out, and if it's just the gf and I, I'll pay for both of us, usually around $120-140. And that's for two people at somewhere nice.
You guys must be dining at some really upmarket places if your tab is $200 pp.
A nice bottle of wine alone can be $150+, so wouldn't be hard to drive it up over $200 if you include the wine.
check the body to make sure everything is perfect in how it should look. i have to take mine in later today because the body finally is starting to give only after having it for 2 months and hopefully will have it replaced or repaired.
Well if you're going to order expensive wine that's a different story I guess, I doubt most people order $150 bottles of wine when they're out for dinner..
There are people who haven't yet had old vintage wine from fine old kegs. A glass of that stuff runs you in the $300s.
Wrong.
No, not wrong
Really depends on the company you keep. I worked for attorneys for many years and $200 for dinner and wine was nothing. Tabs easily went into the thousands for 4-6 people. Of course that was before this current spot of trouble, though I suppose such spending still occurs.
Cheers,
Interesting, as a comparison I studied law in London and socialised there - a lot of dinners were intentionally had at the Commonwealth Club... why.. because it was exclusive, but thrifty. And that really was a common theme, barristers would often complain unashamedly about price, or not getting what they bargained for.
I did see big tabs among city solicitors, but those tabs were getting picked up, or at least subsidised by their firms.
I don't live there any longer, I'm in Edinburgh now, and a bit older, and yet I still don't see this extravagant spending for the majority of people, well not on a regular basis, I think it's a small minority who splash out every outing on expensive wines.
Big difference between ostentatious U.S. spending and Europe. Just look at executive compensation. When Mercedes bought Chrysler the American CEO made 10 times what his German boss made.
They tell us only the top 3% of households in the U.S. earn more than $200K per year. Even so that's a lot of people and many of them like to show off.
Cheers,
also depends on where you live. i can think of several restaurants where one spends $90 for a glass of champagne (obviously overpriced, you can get a 750ml bottle for $150 at a wine store) before being seated or where one spends $5-600 for a prix fixe course. As a full-time student, I wouldn't dare set foot in those places without my parents
Well then....
Well, if you want to have the best and have it all over your friends, you better get a Sony. Aluminum and Carbon Fiber body, Better Wi-Fi performance, better screen, and on and on...
Well, if you want to have the best and have it all over your friends, you better get a Sony. Aluminum and Carbon Fiber body, Better Wi-Fi performance, better screen, and on and on...