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Macboom pro off the apple refurb store?

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Hi,
I was looking to buy a macbook from apple in the new year after macworld but I was looking at the apple refurb store on their website and there are refurbished macbook pros for similar prices to new macbooks.

I was wondering has anyone bought anyone off the refurb store and have they had a bad experience or a good one?
Is the product in any way much worse than a new one?

I also noticed that they don't have core 2 duo processors, but core duo processors which suggests that they might be older computers.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks!
 
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omnicorp said:
Hi,
I was looking to buy a macbook from apple in the new year after macworld but I was looking at the apple refurb store on their website and there are refurbished macbook pros for similar prices to new macbooks.

I was wondering has anyone bought anyone off the refurb store and have they had a bad experience or a good one?
Is the product in any way much worse than a new one?

I also noticed that they don't have core 2 duo processors, but core duo processors which suggests that they might be older computers.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks!
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What is a macboom pro....? just kidding, in a seriousness though, i have an ipod video refurb and besided the packaging, you would have no idea it was refurbed
 
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i hear refurb is just as good as new, my friend baught a refurbed Mini, and it looks just like mine(i got mine new). i guess the only disadvantage to refurb is that it sometimes the newest machine (his was a g4)
 
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Another downside, sometimes they can take awhile to ship them. I ordered an iBook refurbished, after 2 weeks of waiting I canceled to go with a new one from Amazon. My MacBook Pro came really quick though.
 
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Thanks. (sorry about the spelling mistake!)
Does anyone know if refurbed macs will come with iLife '07 in the new year?
 
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I think if you don't really need a C2D, a refurb CD would be a great value. In retrospect, I wish I had gone that route. I think the difference in price was around $400! Luckily my student discount cut that in half anyway.

Can you get Applecare for refurbs?
 

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