good time to buy a MBP?

davidedegiorgi · Feb 8, 2010

Hello guys,
I'm afraid it's time to say goodbye to my MBP silverkeys after the latest and most dramatic brakedown. This time is the hard disk. I'm fed up. I get the new one.

But is it a good time?

Look here

Someone says they will introduce the i7 on the 15" or something like that.
Is that true? I would wait until june if it would save me £400 but is it actually going to happen?

I'm not going to die but I would rather need a new machine in the house.

Thanks.

Donnut · Feb 8, 2010

If your looking forward to an i7, then now would not be a good time, I just bought mine though, mainly because they will ALWAYS have a new shiny every 6-10 months. You can bet on it. If you won't feel burned when they come out with the next model though, buy it!
steve

pigoo3 · Feb 8, 2010

davidedegiorgi said:
Hello guys,
I'm afraid it's time to say goodbye to my MBP silverkeys after the latest and most dramatic brakedown. This time is the hard disk. I'm fed up. I get the new one.

But is it a good time?

If your old MBP is not working, and if it's your only Mac computer...then right now is a good time to buy!

- Nick

davidedegiorgi · Feb 8, 2010

Thanks for the quick reply! amazing.

My point is, maybe the one I want is going to be cheaper. I managed to save almost £400 on the last MBP I bought, simply because the unibody was about to be launched in few days. If there's a chance for this situation to occurr again... well... I'd wait.

But there isn't much at all on the net. This makes me think I should just follow you advice Donnut...

I don't know what to do... I spent alredy more than a week on blogs and rumors...

pigoo3 · Feb 8, 2010

davidedegiorgi said:
My point is, maybe the one I want is going to be cheaper. I managed to save almost £400 on the last MBP I bought, simply because the unibody was about to be launched in few days. If there's a chance for this situation to occurr again... well... I'd wait.

This is a good way to save some money on a newer or previous generation Mac (I recommend it all of the time)...the only problem is...you have to be willing to wait...but there's no accurate prediction on when the next release/update will happen.

Could be tomorrow...could be 6 months!

- Nick

davidedegiorgi · Feb 8, 2010

Ok pigoo3,
I guess the point is that there's no way of knowing it now just yet.

One more week and I'll go for it.

pigoo3 · Feb 8, 2010

davidedegiorgi said:
Ok pigoo3,
I guess the point is that there's no way of knowing it now just yet.

One more week and I'll go for it.

Yes...but in one more week...you may say..."just one more week"!

And then...one more week...one more week...one more week...one more week

You get the idea!

- Nick

davidedegiorgi · Feb 8, 2010

I know.... I actually got it two weeks ago

Thanks mate.

osxx · Feb 8, 2010

I was faced with that decision around Christmas time but a failing vram on the logic
board of my MBP duo core did not help after my purchase no regret faster processor double the ram faster front side bus more cache and 3 times the hard drive space I wish
I had pulled the trigger months earlier. But no doubt if you want to be on the bleeding edge then the next upgrade will no doubt have the i5 and i7 chips maybe usb 3.0 and cheaper SSD but you can be assured what ever you buy now the replacement is being put through its paces at the same time but that is business.

pigoo3 · Feb 8, 2010

davidedegiorgi said:
I know.... I actually got it two weeks ago

What did you get 2 weeks ago? :Confused:

davidedegiorgi · Feb 8, 2010

HAW HAW HAW

Yes...but in one more week...you may say..."just one more week"!

And then...one more week...one more week...one more week...one more week

You get the idea!

- Nick

Sorry Nick, that was confusing.
I GOT the IDEA.

Would have been quite embarassing to waste your time for something I did two weeks ago, wouldn't it?

eh eh eh

Sorry about the confusion.

brockmant · Feb 8, 2010

pigoo3 said:
Could be tomorrow...could be 6 months!

- Nick

There will be a release tomorrow!???!!?!?! Finally! jk lol.

Davyboy4603 · Feb 8, 2010

I'm in the same boat as you man. I need a laptop before college. I want to get it early so i can know the machine before classes start. I just switch to a IMAC desktop and it's awesome. Never have owned a macbook though. I just don't know if i should wait or go with a refurbished one from apple.com My thinking is that we will be waiting for a lil while before they release the new line of the MBP.

pigoo3 · Feb 8, 2010

brockmant said:
There will be a release tomorrow!???!!?!?! Finally! jk lol.

Awesome...I'm gonna be looking for the announcement tomorrow!

- Nick

TheGreatApple · Feb 8, 2010

I wonder if the new i7 MBP's will still be able to remain as thin and sleek...hmmm

On this topic though, I don't see the big deal about waiting for a machine that you have no use for anyway. Just to be in the new and latest crowd? How many people can truly say they need or even can use the power of i7 processor?

osxx · Feb 8, 2010

TheGreatApple said:
I wonder if the new i7 MBP's will still be able to remain as thin and sleek...hmmm

On this topic though, I don't see the big deal about waiting for a machine that you have no use for anyway. Just to be in the new and latest crowd? How many people can truly say they need or even can use the power of i7 processor?

I don't use the full power of my month old MBP and I would be willing to bet
I am not alone.

TheGreatApple · Feb 9, 2010

osxx said:
I don't use the full power of my month old MBP and I would be willing to bet
I am not alone.

Exactly! This weekend I had lightroom open exporting files, photoshop open rendering plenty of images, and DW open uploading about 5GB to a server all WHILE browsing the net through firefox, and istening to music through iTunes. All this on a core 2 duo at 2.8ghz and 4GB ram. Virtually with no holds up or bottlenecks what so ever.

Point is....95% of people (and yes even professionals) don't need close to what they think they really need.

Of course I'm talking about computing power and ability not hard drive space. As I could surely do with a MBP with at least 1TB of space

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chas_m · Feb 9, 2010

osxx said:
maybe usb 3.0

There is absolutely positively no chance of the next model having USB3. None at all.

Sorry don't mean to crush dreams here, but there's just no chance of that.

brockmant · Feb 9, 2010

pigoo3 said:
This is a good way to save some money on a newer or previous generation Mac (I recommend it all of the time)...the only problem is...you have to be willing to wait...but there's no accurate prediction on when the next release/update will happen.

Could be tomorrow...could be 6 months!

- Nick

TheGreatApple said:
Exactly! This weekend I had lightroom open exporting files, photoshop open rendering plenty of images, and DW open uploading about 5GB to a server all WHILE browsing the net through firefox, and istening to music through iTunes. All this on a core 2 duo at 2.8ghz and 4GB ram. Virtually with no holds up or bottlenecks what so ever.

Point is....95% of people (and yes even professionals) don't need close to what they think they really need.

Of course I'm talking about computing power and ability not hard drive space. As I could surely do with a MBP with at least 1TB of space .

But it's just like having that sports car that drives way to fast to technically be legal. Having super ultra powerful toys is a blast! lol...

davidedegiorgi · Feb 9, 2010

sorry brockmant and great apple, I think you missed my point.

I was trying to understand if I could have saved some money to get the same model.
let's say I spend £1700 on an i5 now, and my very same computer costs £1300 in a couple of weeks because there's a new one in.

that's all.

anyway, I'm about to buy it.

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