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Considering a notebook

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Powerbook 1ghz with SuperDrive


~$3100 ( afer I add superdrive and extra battery ). I have never owned a Mac but I have been wanting to play around with the OS and just the mac in general. ( I do not want any of this PC v mac crap or mac sucs ). I Know that $3100 is hella expensive BUT I cannot buy anything at the moment up front. I will have to look at the Apple Instant Loan. Where I can make ~$100 monthly payments. And if I do indeed buy any type of notebook/pc I would have to do monthly payments. I am ony 17, and make around $300-$400 a month. So making a $100 monthly down payment would be NO Problem. Though saving that much cash would be. There is no way I could wait 6 months just to buy a notebook or an awesome PC ( not really an opition, I am happy with mine currently ) .

So my theory is, if I am gonna buy a notebook on monthly payments, why not go for the best thing possible...

Thoughts ?
 
for $3100...

...why do you need so much?

If you're not going to do a lot of digi-editing, and just want to play with an OS, there's a $1300 iBook you can pick up with a combo drive. Add 512MB RAM, pick up MS Office and a mouse and that's still cheaper than the Ti.

Then you can go ahead and buy yourself a nice big monitor -- there are hacks to support monitor spanning on the ibooks. 😀
 
If you really feel you need a notebook, check out pctorque.. they sell the Sager line of notebookes (the ones Alienware uses). You can get the 6650 (check all model numbers, i get them confused) for $1800. Very very good deal. Only thing is these are heavy mofos (9 lbs for the 6650 and 12 for the 8820 ). If you want something lighter and powerful, check out Dell. Honestly, I don't see how you can justify spending $100/month on a notebook when you can get others for much much less per month.


My 2 cents.
 
Well, if I get $260 from my job and $80 from the parents ( monthly ) , I don't think it will take 5 years to pay it off. With the 180 day grace period before I have to start my payments, I could save up around ~$2000 for the first payment, so the principle would start at around $1000. That's not that bad IMO
 
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