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Purchasing a C2D MBP? What are you upgrading from?

Technically, from a 1GHz G4 Tibook, with a iMac 20" CD and a bunch of POS Wintel laptops to tide me over until this glorious day when my MBP C2D arrived.
 
Going From- Imac G5 20" 1.8ghz CPU, 1.25 gigs ram, crappy gpu, crappy evrything ese.

Going Too-MBP C2D 2.33ghz, 2 gigs ram, x1600, 15" matte

and it feels gooooood
 
So Ready!

From:

Strawberry imac G3 333Mhz since '99😡

To:
15" Macbook Pro 2.33Ghz 120HD glossy😉


Won't arrive til the 14th😕
 
Going from the last rev of the 15" 1 GHz TiBook with 1 GB of RAM and 60 GB 7200 RPM disk to a 17" C2D standard config with glossy screen. It will be almost exactly 4 years to the day since I got the TiBook, which was my first Mac. I'll be passing it on to my wife to replace an old Fujistu laptop she uses for Web browsing in the kitchen (while I cook).

The wait is killing me.
 
I'm upgrading from a 1GHz iBook G4. There wasn't an overwhelming need to replace that machine, it was still chugging along just fine. But I was given a bit of money from a graduate grant I'm on for a new laptop and thought it would be stupid not to take advantage.

My other machine at home is a dual 1GHz Power Mac G4. Again, still performing admirably, so probably will hold onto it for awhile.
 
12" iBook early 2004, 1.2 GHz G4, 80 GB, 1.25 GB RAM to
15" MBP, 2.33 GHz C2D, 160 MB, 2 GB RAM

If it ever gets here.... 😕
 
I'm coming from a Sony GRT-270. It died on me a few weeks ago. The SIS chip on the motherboard went out. No way to fix that. So I will be getting a MacBook Pro. My 1st Mac ever! The 17" Macbook Pro, Core 2 Duo, 100GB 7200 RPM HD, Glossy screen, 2GB RAM...
I have been waiting forever for the C2D to be released now I'm waiting for it to be shipped =(, arriving in mid Nov. =( I even have accessories here waiting on the MacBook.
 
Going from a old Quicksilver G4. 867 MHz. 896 gigs of ram. (not a very round number)

Super Drive has been broken for years. Started of with 2 60gb hard drives put in an extra 120bg one and then one of the old ones died. Think my start up disk is gonna die soon.

Basically I'm in desperate need of a new machine!

Mine shipped 6 days ago, meant to arrive by 8th.
 
I have just made a transition to intel Mac with the purchase of C2D MBP 15" (2.33 Mhz/256 MB GUP/120 GB HD). I am hoping this MBP will be as reliable as my current 4 Macs. I went with the stock model instead of BTO.
 
Well, really coming from a 1.5ghz g4 powerbook/1G ram/80G HD/64vram

but got to use a MBP core duo for three months in between the pb and my newly shipped C2D !
 
I'm currently on a nine month old 17" PowerBook G4 (1.67GHz, Hi-Res) with 1.5Gb of RAM and the 120Gb disk.

Originally at the beginning of the calendar year I bought a hi-res 15" PowerBook, only to find that the battery wouldn't take a charge. I took it back to the retailer and exchanged it, only to find that the next 15" PowerBook's battery wouldn't take a charge either. This cycle repeated for four 15" PowerBooks. At the time I was reading about the problems with 15" batteries and the weird screen artifacts that plagued that run of 15" PowerBooks. So, after walking back into the retailer with the fourth 15" PowerBook, I decided to go with a 17" instead, given that the Apple discussions forums reported none of those problems with the 17". Alas, while I initially thought the 17" were too big, I am now totally stuck on the 17" display's real-estate and resolution. And, I have to say that my 17" PowerBook has been bulletproof -- it gets used about ten or twelve hours a day every day, and only gets rebooted about once a month on average, and then only for good reasons, not because it's hosed or anything.

So, my ship-date on my MBP C2D 17" 3Gb/160Gb is six days away and I know that shortly after I've spent time with my MBP, I'll have to part ways with my less than one-year-old PowerBook, and find it a good home, given that I can't justify keeping both.

I can only hope that the C2D turns out to be as reliable as my PowerBook.
 
HP Pavilion ZT3000 - 1.5ghz Centrino/512mb/60gb/64Mb ATI Mobility Radeon

the difference is like night and day...
 
Hope upgrading to a CD less than 2 weeks before the upgrade counts...

Old:
14" iBook G4
1.33GHz
768MB RAM
60GB 4200RPM HDD
Radeon 9200 32MB VRAM
Superdrive
10.4.8

New:
15" MacBook Pro
2.0GHz intel Core Duo
2GB RAM
80GB 5400RPM HDD
Radeon X1600 128MB VRAM
Superdrive
10.4.8
 
From five month old 17" MBP CD --> 15" MBP C2D

This move was nice to be able to do (looking forward to speed bump, drive space) but it was really because I wanted to go back to a 15" laptop - otherwise I couldn't justify move. Before that was 17" G4 (1.2Ghz I think?) and that was from 15" TiBook (500MHz or so).
 
I ordered mine today 😀

Code: 
2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM-2x1GB
100GB Serial ATA Drive@7200rpm
SuperDrive 8X
17" Glossy Widescreen Display
No Modem
BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS
Country Kit

Upgrading from my first mac, a mac mini core solo 1.5Ghz. Like i said before, i'm not thinking in switch back to PC ever 😀

regards from Mexico
 
iBookG4user said:
Hope upgrading to a CD less than 2 weeks before the upgrade counts...

Old:
14" iBook G4
1.33GHz
768MB RAM
60GB 4200RPM HDD
Radeon 9200 32MB VRAM
Superdrive
10.4.8

New:
15" MacBook Pro
2.0GHz intel Core Duo
2GB RAM
80GB 5400RPM HDD
Radeon X1600 128MB VRAM
Superdrive
10.4.8
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dude... if its been less than two weeks return it and get the C2D... you'll be doing yourself a favor.
 
giggity goo-ru said:
dude... if its been less than two weeks return it and get the C2D... you'll be doing yourself a favor.
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Before the upgrade is the key word. I'm out of the two week return policy. And if I did return it, my parents would be pissed at me, this cost me an arm and a leg to get and will have to last me 2 years. That's what I had to promise to get it.
 
iBookG4user said:
Before the upgrade is the key word. I'm out of the two week return policy. And if I did return it, my parents would be pissed at me, this cost me an arm and a leg to get and will have to last me 2 years. That's what I had to promise to get it.
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man i donno... I think I'd take my parents being pissed at me if it meant getting a C2D. Plus why would they get mad anyways... i mean its not like you'd just throw away the CD and have to spend another 2.5k to get the C2D.
 
giggity goo-ru said:
man i donno... I think I'd take my parents being pissed at me if it meant getting a C2D. Plus why would they get mad anyways... i mean its not like you'd just throw away the CD and have to spend another 2.5k to get the C2D.
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Well the Apple store is also 1.5 hours away from my house and it was like 7PM when I found out about the upgrade with that being my last day of the 14 day period. And my parents already complain enough about me not being able to hold onto a computer for more than a year (haven't been able to yet, longest is 8 months 😛). And this is the "I had to sign my life away to get it" computer, although I still paid for the vast majority of it and will pay them back fully. But what's done is done. And if I returned it, there was no guarantee that I would be walking away with a C2D that day and I absolutely have to have at least one laptop at any given time.
 
iBookG4user said:
Before the upgrade is the key word. I'm out of the two week return policy. And if I did return it, my parents would be pissed at me, this cost me an arm and a leg to get and will have to last me 2 years. That's what I had to promise to get it.
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It's a great, very current machine. Congrats and enjoy. I agree, if you could return it (easily) then maybe. Even then I think you'd have pay 15% restock at Apple (and it sounds like money is an issue here). They're both great machines.
 
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