My current gear - iPhone 3GS & iPad 2 (64G WiFi), and a really old nearly dead iPod (classic before it was called classic) 30 gb, and bought my wife an iPod Touch 4th gen.
Also - my old Dell Precision M65 thinks it's a MacBook Pro 3,1 - doesn't count I realize, but still it has somewhat inspired me.
This tax return my intentions are to find a used, somewhat beat up MacBook Pro - I like the aluminum chasis - hoping for something from at least the last two years.
Besides fleabay, is there any place in Canada to get something that maybe needs some work, as in a used Mac store? My budget is always tight, so I am hoping for $600 or so.
I'm in Pembroke, Ontario - close enough to Ottawa to make it worth the drive, if this helps.
Great site by the way... I've been lurking for a while and thought I would drop a quick hello!
Besides fleabay, is there any place in Canada to get something that maybe needs some work, as in a used Mac store? My budget is always tight, so I am hoping for $600 or so.
Well, Billy, why go for something that needs work / is that old?
Today on Apple Canada's Refurbished Macs page, you can pick up an October 2010 model MacBook Air for $699. That'll get you a nice full Apple warranty...
I like the Air's well enough, but to cover my needs more I need more umph. I love movies, and am somewhat techie in nature. My house (with wife and 4 kids aged 1 yr to 14 yrs) currently is home to a small Windows Home Server, a machine for internet only purposes, a tiny little Shuttle PC behind the living room TV, 4 Windows laptops (not counting mine), plus various machines in various states of repair/disrepair soley for my tinkering.
I need an optical drive, and would use it at various times - meaning I don't want to lug around a separate drive.
I am though concentrating on a 13" MBP for my search. The Apple refurb store is near enough to a grand to be well over after taxes kick in, which is WAY more than my wife would let me spend.
You can always check out the classifieds here, new stuff doesn't pop up all that often but when it does there is some really good stuff. Other than that Kijiji and Craigslist come to mind.
This is an ancient dead thread... but I thought I'd chime in that the franchise called "Easy Home Rent to Own" now offers MacBook Pro 13.3's, 2.4Ghz i5 - I know this for a fact, as my step daughter killed my hackintosh and my wife (beautiful loving woman that she is) let me get one from there, and I friggin love the thing.
not to poo-poo your "score" at EasyHome but at their low APR rates of 29.9% (calculated from cost of product - whatever that means) on their 104 week terms to own, you will pay $5,096.00 before taxes for a laptop you can by new for $1,249.00.
If fact, if you saved your $50 a week you would pay them for your "great deal" in 5 months you would have enough to buy it outright from Apple and save a year and half of payments
No deal from EasyHome or any other Rent-2-Own places.
No no - they actually "like" me there - I pay less than half that posted rate. So it's not $50 a week - my final payout is based on just over $100 a month - give or take I should end paying about $2400 for a Mac that I would pay about $1400 with taxes added in. Seriously I'm OK with this - I have 4 daughters there is no such thing as saving involved in my world.
I don't know what "liking you" means, unless it has something to do with that fact you are a frequent customer or give them steady business. Getting a high interest credit card at 29.9% you would pay $500 less over the course of their 104 week "term". That half of your next computer
As for saving, you can if you try even with 4 girls - I was able to save and buy my toys and I have 6 kids, a little planning goes a long way
Also making a hackintosh tought me quite a bit about the inner workings. I'm impressed with how all the guts work with the software - it is not easy to get a hack system to work, a person actually has to think about the end result as well as the process to get the end result. Especially in a laptop as there isn't an easy swap it out option.
Frequent customer... very frequent. We've gotten living room furniture, bedroom furniture, appliances, and my wife got a really crappy laptop about 5 years ago from there. I also had a brief stint repairing some electronics for them, reformatting their computers, putting together piles of useless stuff into piles of less useless stuff, etc. So yes, I got a decent deal. For a brand new MacBook Pro - this model sells for a little over $1400 with taxes included, and I will end up paying just a little over $2400 for mine, that I can have right now. I don't have a problem with paying the extra for something I can use now.
^^^Yikes, over three years that works out at about a 25% interest rate not including any late fees. You could do as well just buying it on a credit card. Even better if you paid a more than the minimum.
As much as I hate the Banksters, if you must borrow I am sure they could have done quite a bit better for you.
Two years... the final price will be just over $2400. That's about a grand more than currently available at the Apple store. It's brand new, I opened the box, had to cut the seal even. I set it up from scratch. I like it. How many people on this site are bankers or lawyers??? Please at least read the whole post before shooting down my purchase!
Two years... the final price will be just over $2400. That's about a grand more than currently available at the Apple store. It's brand new, I opened the box, had to cut the seal even. I set it up from scratch. I like it. How many people on this site are bankers or lawyers??? Please at least read the whole post before shooting down my purchase!
It is rather disgusting, however in my humble opinion, it beats option A which is attempt to stuff away $100 a month and purchase a nice macbook pro next May (2013) or B scrape away a few hundred and buy a really low end Acer/Toshiba/HP from Walmart. I like the new laptop, I like that I was the first person to cut the seal to open the box. I like that I have it today.
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