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Just bought a new MBP

xanis

xanis

Lifer
I'm poorer to the tune of about $2,400 but I think it's worth it. 😉

15'' MBP
2.2GHz i7
8GB RAM
750GB 7200RPM HDD
high-res glossy screen

Should be delivered by Friday or next Monday at the latest. My plan is to get a Optibay and swap the Superdrive for the 750GB HDD and put a 128GB SSD in the main slot for apps and the OS.

This will replace my aging early-2007 MBP. It's served me very well, but it's showing its age. I'm probably going to keep it around to tinker with unless I can sell it and get a few hundred bucks for it. 🙂
 
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I personally woulda waited it out to see what the refresh looks liked in a month or two...but if it's what you want then enjoy 🙂

They are nice laptops.
 
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I personally woulda waited it out to see what the refresh looks liked in a month or two...but if it's what you want then enjoy 🙂

They are nice laptops.
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It's Apple... no matter what I get, there will be a refresh in a few months. 😉

My current laptop is going on 5 years old now and desperately needs to retire. Starting next Monday I'm also going to be working from home two days a week, so I wanted to make sure I was up and running before that.
 
xanis said:
It's Apple... no matter what I get, there will be a refresh in a few months. 😉

My current laptop is going on 5 years old now and desperately needs to retire. Starting next Monday I'm also going to be working from home two days a week, so I wanted to make sure I was up and running before that.
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Stick an SSD into the MBP. It'll feel like a new machine.
 
Paying Apple $200 for $40 worth of RAM wasn't a good move, nor was paying $150 for an extra 250GB of spinning platter hard drive space.

The only upgrades worth ordering on MacBook Pros are the CPU and screen.
 
xanis said:
My plan is to get a Optibay and swap the Superdrive for the 750GB HDD and put a 128GB SSD in the main slot for apps and the OS.
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Put the SSD in the Optibay. Both ports are SATA3 but, unless somethings changed, I believe only the port the hard drive is shipped in has shock protection in case you drop it or something.
 
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In the old one too? Cuz that will also make it feel a lot snappier.
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Oh yea, totally. I dropped an SSD into my mom's OG BlackBook, that sucker practically flies now, especially compared to the 5400 RPM platter that it came stock with.
 
Congrats on the new laptop... I had a 2007 era (Santa Rosa) 17" MBP, which is now seeing duty as the main home machine for a good friend of mine. They still hold up pretty well, but this one has trouble running Lion so it went back to 10.6 and is working fine.
 
Congrats! I picked up my first macbook pro this time last year. It was the first time I bought a non-ios apple device and I absolutely love it. The laptop is what turned me into an apple fan. I've had it right around a year now and it looks and performs just as good as the day I bought it. I here talk of a redesign and I tell myself I want one, but when I go back to my current macbook I realize I have absolutely no need for one.
 
I don't know about anyone else, but using a single SSD only (no optibay mechanical hdd) is a dream. My laptop is not only fast, but its dead silent and vibration free.

However using a single SSD may call for some space sacrifices.
 
xanis said:
It's Apple... no matter what I get, there will be a refresh in a few months. 😉

My current laptop is going on 5 years old now and desperately needs to retire. Starting next Monday I'm also going to be working from home two days a week, so I wanted to make sure I was up and running before that.
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In your case, it makes sense to buy now, but the comment about there always being a refresh in a few months no matter what you get, is not quite accurate. Apple only updates its MacBook Pros about once a year, or sometimes twice.

Plus the new models should get USB 3 support.
 
There haven't been any signs of Apple supporting USB3. They might hold out for a little longer before adopting that since they're all about thunderbolt.
 
MrX8503 said:
There haven't been any signs of Apple supporting USB3. They might hold out for a little longer before adopting that since they're all about thunderbolt.
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I think Apple will support USB3 the second Intel releases it in Ivy Bridge. They'd be crazy not to - it's free at that point.
 
I'm hoping that Apple would adopt USB3 too since its USB2 compatible, but knowing Apple, they may still not use it because of Thunderbolt.
 
MrX8503 said:
I'm hoping that Apple would adopt USB3 too since its USB2 compatible, but knowing Apple, they may still not use it because of Thunderbolt.
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That's my fear. They intentionally gimp it to try and push thunderbolt. Bleh.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
They've already backed thunderbolt. They're not going to "downgrade" to usb3.
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Huh? There is no rule that states a machine Thunderbolt cannot have USB 3. They already sell Thunderbolt machines with USB 2 of course. It's not as if they got rid of USB 2 when they shipped Thunderbolt.
 
$2400? Even by Apple standards that seems awfully high for the specs listed...

I saw the price and immediately assumed Apple RAM & SSD upgrade, but you only got one of those so I'm confused.

I purchased a 13" MBP about a year ago for around ~$1650 and it came with a 256GB SSD (though it had an i5 not an i7).
 
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The 13" machines are significantly cheaper, and it's even cheaper if you got a refurb... which is why I often buy refurbs.
 
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