Got A Macbook yesterday, woot!

[cheezy321]

Well, I had a very good experience with craigslist yesterday. I usually hate dealing with people on craigslist, because I have met a lot of jackasses on there.

This time was different.

Someone posted their less than one month old macbook for 900 bucks. Just for fun, I emailed them and told them all i could do was 700 for it, but i would pay them cash today if they wanted to sell it. The girl e-mails me back and says she can do it. I was very excited at this point, and we set up a meeting after work at starbucks.

Well, I get there and the girl i was buying it from was so small. She was maybe 100 lbs, and like 5"3'. She was pretty ballsy to meet someone she didnt know at a starbucks all alone. Especially off of craigslist (I have met a lot of scammers and low lifes on there)

Anyways, transaction went fine and I love the macbook!

Its got a warranty until July 17th, 2007. Her cut off day for a return was August 2nd, so she just barely missed it.

So now I have a basically brand new macbook with a full warranty for almost 400 off retail! YES, i rock!

Now that i am done gloating, what are some good mac programs?

I wanna install windows XP on it, but I dont know if i should partition a majority to windows xp, or do half and half? The hard drive is only 60 gigs, and I have 30 gigs of music, so i might be crunched for space.

Also, whats a good newsgroup and torrent program for a mac?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Nice :thumbsup:

 

[cheezy321]

Oh, and one more question....

With a program like boot camp and multiple partitions, will I be able to access universal data from the mac partition from my windows XP partition (I.E. music and movies and such?)

 

[preslove]

You're a lucky sob.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

5' 3"? 100lbs? She is the notorious mac book cat burglar. Not only that, but she probably distracted you with her feminine wiles and gave you a P-P-P-PowerBook. You should give it to me asap.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: cheezy321
Oh, and one more question....

With a program like boot camp and multiple partitions, will I be able to access universal data from the mac partition from my windows XP partition (I.E. music and movies and such?)

yep...i think so if you use a program called macdrive.

and congrats on your good deal you lucky duck.

is it white or black?

 

[SLCentral]

Unison is the BEST Newsgroups program, Mac or Windows. That, and Adium, really makes me want to switch back to Mac, but cost constraints prevent me . For torrents, Azerus (SP?) is fine, though it's Java, so it may run a little slow. I've never used a Intel Mac, though, so I can't tell you for sure. I personally use Tomato Torrent.

Like Secretahcnhitman said, MacDrive will let you use your Mac Partition in Windows, though it's kind of a PITA, plus you have to pay. If you use NTFS for Windows, you can read the files on OS X, but not write. FAT32 lets you write.

 

[randomlinh]

wow.. nice deal. considering he said $400 off retail... that'd be the white one.

only question left is was she hot? heh. and if you met at a fairly busy time, starbucks is generally public enough.

or.. she is now stalking you and is a serial killer that uses cheap macbooks as bait.

 

[whistleclient]

why was willing to sell it for so cheap?

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: tangent1138
why was willing to sell it for so cheap?

probably fell of a truck

 

[cheezy321]

Originally posted by: tangent1138
why was willing to sell it for so cheap?

She wanted a macbook pro. I think she was a little spoiled. 18 year old girl with a brand new mitsu eclipse.

It didnt fall off the back of the truck either. She gave me the serial # and the original receipt from when she purchased it at the chandler fashion square mall (At the apple store)

Thats how i know she bought it on July 17th.

 

[vexingv]

unison for newsgroups (though i think newsbin for windows is still a bit better; i do all my newsgroup stuff on windows). i used azureus before on osx, but haven't in the past 2 yrs. check out the forums at macnn.

 

[ElFenix]

:camera: (of the girl)?

 

[stu1811]

Well you obviously dont know what Macintosh stands for..
Most Applications Crash If Not Then Operating Systems Hangs
Edit: Missed a space

 

[cheezy321]

You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: stu1811
Well you obviously dont know what Macintosh stands for..
Most Applications Crash If Not Then Operating Systems Hangs
Edit: Missed a space

Uh...right.

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

You know you have to....

 

[BabaBooey]

Credit card scams rule !!

You know damn well she did not pay for that and take a $400 loss..come on..:laugh:


Mac on..

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

Dude, come on... I want to see the spoiled girl, come on.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: preslove

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

Dude, come on... I want to see the spoiled girl, come on.

pretty please OP

 

[cheezy321]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: preslove

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

Dude, come on... I want to see the spoiled girl, come on.

pretty please OP

maybe later, I am at work right now and the macbook is at my house

 

[Cloud Strife]

pics? of the girl of course.

Try parallels. It's turns XP into a virtual OS.

 

[Cloud Strife]

Originally posted by: SLCentral

Originally posted by: stu1811
Well you obviously dont know what Macintosh stands for..
Most Applications Crash If Not Then Operating Systems Hangs
Edit: Missed a space

Uh...right.

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

You know you have to....

I bet they were nekkid pics. I know a lot of girls like to take pictures of them naked and upload it to their computer.

I just found a Macbook selling in my area for $950. I should lowball the seller just like the OP.

 

[phantom309]

Originally posted by: Cloud Strife

Originally posted by: SLCentral

Originally posted by: stu1811
Well you obviously dont know what Macintosh stands for..
Most Applications Crash If Not Then Operating Systems Hangs
Edit: Missed a space

Uh...right.

Originally posted by: cheezy321
You know, she actually left some pictures of herself on the hard drive from that photobooth program. I would feel bad uploading hte pictures tho......

You know you have to....

I bet they were nekkid pics. I know a lot of girls like to take pictures of them naked and upload it to their computer.

I just found a Macbook selling in my area for $950. I should lowball the seller just like the OP.

If you're going to buy used, make sure it's a later build - the ones built prior to July tend to have a lot more problems (overheating, noisy, palmrest discolors). Mine was built on Jul 10 and works very well.

I also run XP via Parallels and it's excellent.