MacBook Pro Really Required For University?

[MowingDevil]

Today, 06:41 AM

Just thought I should report back and let anyone who is interested know I went to the Apple store as planned and picked up the 2.4 Ghz MacBook Pro with the glossy screen (just looked so much better than matte in store)

10 minutes too late.

Today, 06:51 AM

Agree with previous posts. Don't waste money by buying a MBP.

MB is more than sufficient and is more much portable and durable.

 

[MowingDevil]

Go with the MBP just so when there is a situation when you need to do something you can, from anywhere.

Care to explain that? Its not like he was thinking of getting an iMac or something like that.

 

[dopeytree]

Better spec cheaper

Thank you for giving so much advice and discussion for me to consider, it is much appreciated.

It looks like getting a MacBook Pro would be the right thing to do, although in this thread opinions are almost 50/50.

Throughout the last two years my MacBook has served me well, stopping me from having to waste time and effort on my sixth forms PC suites and meaning I could chuckle to myself when others forgot memory sticks, or had to spend half of an hours free period searching for free computer rooms and then having to find PC's that actually worked. I always felt the coursework I produced was of a high quality because of doing things this way, and as I have already had to convert hundreds of pages of work from 'Pages' files to PDF files to print at school carrying on like this won't be a problem at Uni if I can't print directly from my Mac.

I will Bootcamp with XP so it is always there just in case I need it, and I'm glad the MSDNAA was mentioned here, I will look into it.

Now I just have to hope I'll be lucky and new MacBook Pro's will be released this week, if not I won't get hung up on it and still buy the current generation and be happy with the machine.

Thanks again,

Mike

Unless you have cash to burn I would recomend getting the middle macbook pro but a release behind. This will give you a speedy mbp with a 256mb graphics card or better AND!it will save you about £500 then maybe upgrade the ram to 3gb or more importantly the HARDISK anything upto 500GB.

This is what I've done.

Saved around £700 with the upgrades included too

2.33ghz MBP, 500GB, Wifi N, 3GB ram, DL DVD/RW, BLUETOOTH, LEOPARD

And I was able to buy a 1TB raid disk with Firewire 800 (double usb2's speed!!!) as a back up

check out http://www.jigsaw24.com/

 

[dopeytree]

Too Late

Check out these bargains you could have had...


MACBOOK PRO GLSY 17 CORE 2 DUO 2.4GHZ 2GB 160GB DVDR 8600M GT 256MB

£1,049.00
£1,232.58 incVAT

http://www.jigsaw24.com/default.aspx?ITEM=JIGSMA897BG&IP=1WG_NOTESC_NTAPPPL_MBPFC_MBP172.4CC


MACBOOK PRO HI-RES 17 CORE 2 DUO 2.4GHZ 2GB 160GB DVDR 8600M GT 256MB

£1,099.00
£1,291.33 incVAT

http://www.jigsaw24.com/default.aspx?ITEM=JIGSMA897HD&IP=1WG_NOTESC_NTAPPPL_MBPFC_MBP172.4CC


Or

EX DEMO MACBOOK PRO 15.4 CORE 2 DUO 2.4 2GB 200GB DVDR 8600M GT 256MB

£979.00
£1,150.33 incVAT

http://www.jigsaw24.com/default.aspx?ITEM=JIGSMB133BE


Oh well...

 

[catmonkey]

Price

As we have moved onto the topic of the price I should mention I got the base MBP with a Higher education discount, 3 year AppleCare and an Incase sleeve for £1187.85.

Mike