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New or used MacBook Pro?
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 880918" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>I've never been a fan of purchasing things from people online unless I can meet them in person so my advice would not only be to meet this person for pickup but to test the machine in their presence before you hand over the cash. I don't mean just turn it on either. Test wifi if you can (or at least make sure it can pick up signals), run through System Profiler to check the specs and status of equipment (click Apple logo in top left corner > About This Mac > "More Info..."), etc. Call it paranoia if you will but $700 is a lot of money to waste on equipment that may be broken.</p><p></p><p>Also, make sure it comes with everything that was included with it when it was new - restore discs, power adapters...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 880918, member: 71075"] I've never been a fan of purchasing things from people online unless I can meet them in person so my advice would not only be to meet this person for pickup but to test the machine in their presence before you hand over the cash. I don't mean just turn it on either. Test wifi if you can (or at least make sure it can pick up signals), run through System Profiler to check the specs and status of equipment (click Apple logo in top left corner > About This Mac > "More Info..."), etc. Call it paranoia if you will but $700 is a lot of money to waste on equipment that may be broken. Also, make sure it comes with everything that was included with it when it was new - restore discs, power adapters... [/QUOTE]
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