That's a great deal, but whoever sold it to you for that cheap is a moron.No, it is not. No liquid damage.
I got this one over a month ago.
Same model, different laptop.
That's a great deal, but whoever sold it to you for that cheap is a moron.No, it is not. No liquid damage.
I got this one over a month ago.
Same model, different laptop.
$550 is an okay price.After expressing my concern he lowered the price to $550 or full refund. He said $550 is the lowest he'd go.
Yeah...that's definitely not normal. You got lucky. If everybody were buying second-hand 15" Retinas with these specs for $400, then this might actually be relevant to the conversation.I bought a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15" with twice as much memory and storage as this for $400.
IMO, the display is worth it, as is the build quality. It is not an M.2 drive (proprietary connector), but rather than using some of the funky and limited after-market drives for this interface, you can also buy an adapter that lets you fit an M.2 drive inside. You do have to be careful about selecting a drive, though: it needs to be PCIe AHCI "M-key".Granted it has a way better display, and if I'm not mistaken an M.2 SSD?
OS X is known to cache as much stuff as it can. If you have available RAM, it will find something to do with it. The more RAM you have, the more it will use, regardless of what you are actually doing. I suspect 4GB is probably going to be fine.I only have a few tabs open on Safari and I am already over 4GB memory.
After expressing my concern he lowered the price to $550 or full refund. He said $550 is the lowest he'd go.
See even the friend knew that wasn't totally fair lol. $550 is better. Anything less than $500 is a slickdeal.
I only have a few tabs open on Safari and I am already over 4GB memory.
That's merely an opinion.Did I miss something?
Can your wife run OS-X on her current laptop?
If the answer is no, the move to the MBP will be a huge improvement.
Besides, OS X runs much better on 4gb than win10 ever will on 8gb (once again, IMO)
That's merely an opinion.
The bit about OS X running better than win is an opinion, as I pointed out.
However comparing PC N.1 running Win with PC N.2 (a Mac) running OS X is a pointless exercise.
The biggest difference between the two will not come from the different specs of the hardware but rather from the difference in the intrinsic performance and usability of the OSs.
Going back to opinions, I'd personally rather have a 4gb Mac than an 8gb win10 any day of the week.
Don't you? ;-)
I bought a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15" with twice as much memory and storage as this for $400.
It came with original box and accessories + receipt.
This is definitely not a good deal.
Well, I am not exactly complaining.No way man. I see them go for a lot more than that.
I don't have too much experience with Macs, I'm mainly support Windows servers and network equipment for work, but just looking at the spec sheet, I instantly felt like I spent too much.
As for ixxx69 question, yeah, I should have known better, but the word "Mac" and "wife" made my mind fuzzy and I crossed the street without looking both ways. Idiot move I know.
Did I miss something?
Can your wife run OS-X on her current laptop?
If the answer is no, the move to the MBP will be a huge improvement.
Besides, OS X runs much better on 4gb than win10 ever will on 8gb (once again, IMO)
The bit about OS X running better than win is an opinion, as I pointed out.
However comparing PC N.1 running Win with PC N.2 (a Mac) running OS X is a pointless exercise.
The biggest difference between the two will not come from the different specs of the hardware but rather from the difference in the intrinsic performance and usability of the OSs.
Going back to opinions, I'd personally rather have a 4gb Mac than an 8gb win10 any day of the week.
Don't you? ;-)
I don't have too much experience with Macs, I'm mainly support Windows servers and network equipment for work, but just looking at the spec sheet, I instantly felt like I spent too much.
As for ixxx69 question, yeah, I should have known better, but the word "Mac" and "wife" made my mind fuzzy and I crossed the street without looking both ways. Idiot move I know.
Haha well I probably wouldn't have bought it if I looked before I leaped. He's an engineer so I didn't really think he'd have such a bare minimum Mac in his possession. Guess you can't assume people with money buy top shelf all the time. I also didn't think a MacBook Pro would be so bare either, but lesson learned.I support Windows servers and network equipment for work (along with Macs) and if someone tried selling me a computer that's the first thing I would be looking at...CPU, RAM, Storage.
If it's your "buddy", I'm sure he'll take it back. If not, time to unfriend him.
Not really but I'm not an Apple Fanboy so I couldn't care less about the Apple Tax nor the "need" to have a Macbook in my neighborhood Starbucks![]()
I only have a few tabs open on Safari and I am already over 4GB memory.
Something I've noticed though about my macs (My girlfriend and I have several in the house) is that the one's with 16 gigs of ram seem to suck up the ram more readily, and, like you said, are pretty quickly showing more than 4gigs of ram in usage in Activity Monitor. However, the two we have that only have 4 gigs of ram don't seem to max out very easily at all.
And yes, I watch the page outs, ram pressure, ect.
It's as if the OS somehow 'knows' how much ram it has to play with and uses less ram if there's less installed.
Am I the only one whose noticed this phenomenon?
Absolutely not! A 4GB Mac with Yosemite or El Capitan is a very frustrating experience. I would take a 4GB W10 machine before a 4GB Mac. Yosemite and El Capitan are heavy pigs.Going back to opinions, I'd personally rather have a 4gb Mac than an 8gb win10 any day of the week.
Don't you? ;-)
Good friend.Anyway yesterday he came over to my house and had some beers and gave me my money back. He left the laptop to me and asked me to eBay it for him. So anyone looking for a $700 MacBook Pro
Just to see what would happened, I took out 8GB RAM and inserted 4GB.
The experience is excruciatingly painful.