MBP Virgin.. advice needed

[cfcboy]

Grrr so after having a quick chat with my son and dropping some subtle conversation in about which product is best to get he said the following:

Macbook Pro
Games not that fussed about
Must be good for picture and video editing
Must have Retina display (for the art work)

I think my £1300 budget is going to be a mile off

The best price I can get looks to be £1489 with the following spec:


Refurbished 15.4-inch MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel i7 with Retina Display

Originally released June 2012
15.4-inch (diagonal) Retina display; 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch
8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
256GB Flash Storage
720p FaceTime HD Camera
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory

Seems to touch all bases. Darn Apple products are pricey!

 

[Applefanboy8153]

Beautiful culture, been a while since I have been there, got a present when I left, leftover from varanasi, Malaria, the deadly variant, survived though.

That aside, Apple seem to have tougher "rules" and higher prices in similar countries, the one I am in, similar in name, Indonesia have too high prices, before you could get away with paying 10% tax with the grey market, not so anymore.

The prices are not that bad, you can get a new rmbp (Base) for 1699. But that's not as bad as Brazil! Costs almost a nuke to get a new mac there.

Sorry that you had a bad experience here! But being a native, I never had malaria Lol!

 

[droidbook]

I have a cMBP and did not want the retina, I use my cMBP for my graphics work and its just fine, Im a graphic designer and photographer editing photos, videos and all types of graphics work its just fine. I installed 16gb of ram myself. All is perfect no complaints here. I feel i got more for my money then having to get the retina and then all the accesories

 

[justperry]

The prices are not that bad, you can get a new rmbp (Base) for 1699. But that's not as bad as Brazil! Costs almost a nuke to get a new mac there.

Sorry that you had a bad experience here! But being a native, I never had malaria Lol!

Brasil, ugh

As for my experience, I was there (on a push bike) for 3 months, time of my life, it was not until I arrived in Nepal that I got the fever, a day after I left India.

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OP, yes, your off by a large amount, better talk it out of his head, or kick his bottom to earn some cash, although that's fairly hard in the UK now I think.

 

[xShane]

Wasn't there some news about this a while ago, hope they will do this soon in Europe as well, not that the Macs are way overpriced there, it's the RAM what I am talking about, charging 3-5 times more than others, same goes for SSD.

Yeah, which is why I brought it up, because I remember reading about it.

Now, I'm not sure exactly how high priced Apple products are in Australia, but Apple has a history for expensive products. "Don't like it? Don't buy it" should apply, though.

I mean sure, Lamborghini's might be nice to have. But by no means are they actually that good (they never even rank in the top results for Le Mans). And for $200,000-$400,000+ USD, they are quite expensive. Wouldn't buy one, even if I could afford it. The only thing they're faster than is a Prius -- they have nothing on *true* race cars.

 

[Applefanboy8153]

Grrr so after having a quick chat with my son and dropping some subtle conversation in about which product is best to get he said the following:

Macbook Pro
Games not that fussed about
Must be good for picture and video editing
Must have Retina display (for the art work)

I think my £1300 budget is going to be a mile off

The best price I can get looks to be £1489 with the following spec:


Refurbished 15.4-inch MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-core Intel i7 with Retina Display

Originally released June 2012
15.4-inch (diagonal) Retina display; 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch
8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
256GB Flash Storage
720p FaceTime HD Camera
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory

Seems to touch all bases. Darn Apple products are pricey!

Check out eBay sometimes you just get lucky. Also a MBA might be good too, customise it to add i7 processor and 8GB RAM and voila you have a 10 pound saving on the original budget. the Retina display model is relatively new and has many problems especially with bleeding. So talk him out of it. I had a bad experience with a rmbp recently.

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The MBA has a 1400 by 900 display which is great and should be good enough for a A level Art student.

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Or a rMBP 13 could be great (early 2013)

If storage isnt an issue the 128GB SSD (And it should'nt be) is perfectly fine when supplemented by a external HDD.
My rMBP has 256 GB SSD but if i remove the media files, i have only a usage of about 70GB.

http://store.apple.com/uk/configure/MD212B/A?

You may wanna look at a faster processor, also refurbs are limited in supply so OP you'd better reach consensus as refurbs are extremely limited in supply.

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Brasil, ugh

As for my experience, I was there (on a push bike) for 3 months, time of my life, it was not until I arrived in Nepal that I got the fever, a day after I left India.

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OP, yes, your off by a large amount, better talk it out of his head, or kick his bottom to earn some cash, although that's fairly hard in the UK now I think.

Nice, I went to Nepal myself, beautiful place! Dont know much about Brazil though!
Varnasi is a really sick place, very dirty, my city is cleaner! I live in the Financial District of Hyderabad, which is luckily well maintained as it has many IT offices like that of Apple, Microsoft and FB.