New 15"MBP or Refurb 15 MBP with 2.93 CPU

[Wicked1]

I have made a decision to get a 15" MBP but I think I am getting the uMBP with the 2.93 for under $2,000.00.

Has anyone purchased the uMBP with the 2.93 or if you have the new uMBP with the 2.8 is it worth the $500.00 extra? I dont care about the SD slot, the battery is not critical so I do not see the extra value, but I thought I would get everyone's opinion to help me decide first.


Thanks

 

[rw3]

Loving my 2.93Ghz!

 

[Wicked1]

What was the reason for you to stay with the older uMBP 2.93 instead of going to the newer one, and how did you get a 1 TB drive already

 

[bmcgrath]

If it were me I'd pocket the extra cash and take the 2.9ghz speeeeed. Spend that $500 on another gadget or just save it

 

[rw3]

I have two Seagate 7200.4 500GB running in RAID 0 via the XtremeMacs OptiBay that is found on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260441742424

From my understanding, the Early 2009 and Late 2008 uMBP will support the new WD 1TB 2.5" 12.7mm drive in the HDD position.

 

[maflynn]

If you're comparing the 2.8 vs. the 2.93 I'm not so sure you'll see a huge uptick in performance. Maybe a few percentage points at most.

 

[cube]

The March 2009 15" 2.66 and 2.93:

- Have ExpressCard slot
- Have removable battery
- Have 6 MiB of L2 cache
- Have 512 MiB of VRAM
- Can take 8 GiB of RAM
- Seem to take a 12.5mm hard disk