Sell your Rev. A. Screw the iPhone for now, you cant get one anyways without waiting weeks.
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Just sold my 17" hi res mbp and now the waiting game, anyone else waiting?
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Sell your Rev. A. Screw the iPhone for now, you cant get one anyways without waiting weeks.
I know exactly how you feel. I have the 2g iphone and I stilll cant see a reason to update so I'm going to just wait until the next iphone
Man I'm torn too, on one hand I've owned the mac pro and know exactly what to expect and crave the power and on the other hand I'm thinking about just picking up a macbook on the cheap since it can do everything I want it to do and the mac pro would just be overkill.
It's so annoying, everyone talking about the "nVidia crysis." At first I was ROFLing, now I just want to start smacking people.
Yeah, great idea, sell your perfectly working laptop, because nVidia claimed certain cards may overheat - oh wait probably doesnt even apply to Apple to begin with because they use their own kernel-level drivers in Mac OS X - and actually they use their own drivers in Windows too. It's not a hardware level problem.
Honestly, has anybody ever seen ONE THREAD on these forums about someone who actually had an MBP nVidia card fail due to the symptoms nVidia describes??? NOPE!
That's because its not even a problem. All you see are threads about how people are worrying over it. Seriously, some of you guys can be ridiculous sometimes.
Yeah, great idea, sell your perfectly working laptop, because nVidia claimed certain cards may overheat - oh wait probably doesnt even apply to Apple to begin with because they use their own kernel-level drivers in Mac OS X - and actually they use their own drivers in Windows too. It's not a hardware level problem.
Honestly, has anybody ever seen ONE THREAD on these forums about someone who actually had an MBP nVidia card fail due to the symptoms nVidia describes??? NOPE!
That's because its not even a problem. All you see are threads about how people are worrying over it. Seriously, some of you guys can be ridiculous sometimes.
Lol, for one thing its Crisis not the video game Crysis. Anyway, just for me though its more on the safe side and I just feel more at ease. I just hate not knowing which gpu are not defective or are defective.
Also the 2007 merom nvidia 8600m gt cards been out a little over a year now and when reading on the apple support forums (the ones apple didnt erase) everyone's gpu that has died are pretty much just a year or year and a half old.
Just looking at this pattern I just think anywhere in 3 years the gpu will die even for the penryn models.
But this is just me and honestly it was driving me crazy so now I'm at peace and finally can just move on.
Only deal right now is for me to choose the perfect mac, either a macbook, imac (not really leaning towards this one though) or a mac pro.
macbook to save money and wait for nehalem or just ending it all now for the next 5-6 years with a mac pro. *Sigh*....
But for alot of you, dont mind if your gpu will die in the 3 year and apple might even replace your mbp with a newer updated version at that time which is even better. But for me and its just me, I just dont want to go through the hassle and try to get the logic board swapped out.
If anything from what Ive seen in the powerbook/macbook pro, that everyone who gets a new logic board and the new logic board always happens to die in the next 6-8 months later.
To me, once the hardware is overall good, it wont break down for several years (meaning at least 7-8 years.).
If my fictitious degree in cultural anthropology serves me correctly jjah, the tribe now considers you an "outsider" for committing and act of blasphemy by admitting that there is a potential problem with anything Apple (the deity/chieftain) related through your actions (selling a religious artifact). I'm afraid they won't welcome you back into the tribe until you've bought the Montevina updates.
Stay away from the tightly strung ones like m1stake or we could see a ceremonial sacrifice to Steve Jobs any minute.
Stay away from the tightly strung ones like m1stake or we could see a ceremonial sacrifice to Steve Jobs any minute.