Hi
I bought a used macbook pro-late 2011 model off of ebay but it came already set up and with a host of problems such as imessage and facetime not working/ not letting me log in. So after trying every single suggestion I have been offered, I decided to start from scratch and return this one. I have a budget of about 500 dollars for a macbook. I would like 8gb ram and would prefer a solid state drive if its an older machine. My husband asked me to try to get something newer than that one since the problems could have been either the hard drive or just the age/ obsolescence. But since I only have a budget of 500 I know that's not much in Apple world.
What I need to be able to do is light phot/video editing, school work (I have to draw anatomical pictures for my current class) but I also have to log into biodigital human, if you've ever seen that. I have to make powerpoint presentations ( I can get the software for mac from my school) But I want iMessage and Facetime to work.
I am not a heavy gamer or coder. I am the furthest thing from an audiophile. I barely ever listen to music. I like Youtube videos but I don't need the best sound system to hear those. It doesn't have to have the latest and greatest but it does have to get me through school work and allow me to contact my family/ friends using the imessage app and Facetime since most of my long distance family members use these apps and want to keep in touch with me/my kids etc.
Newer than 2011 preferred, since that did not work well for me. Macbook Pro or Air. Can someone tell me what to kind of look for? Even a link to ebay or other sellers would help? Would like to stick to 500 if possible. I need advice since I am new to the apple world. Decided to switch after wanting to punch a hole in multiple windows laptops for giving up on me less than 6 months after purchase. And what I said I do on a laptop is ALL I do. Schoolwork, photo editing, make drawings, check facebook and email that's it. I am boring. So they shouldn't have given up and frozen so much. I decided to leave Windows after the third laptop in a year was just...bad. Any help appreciated. I don't want to get another clunker.
I was looking at this
NICE APPLE MACBOOK AIR 11" 128GB SSD | 8GB RAM | 1.4GHz Intel i5 A1465 +FREECASE | eBay
Wondering if its a good deal and a good thing for what I need??
I bought a used macbook pro-late 2011 model off of ebay but it came already set up and with a host of problems such as imessage and facetime not working/ not letting me log in. So after trying every single suggestion I have been offered, I decided to start from scratch and return this one. I have a budget of about 500 dollars for a macbook. I would like 8gb ram and would prefer a solid state drive if its an older machine. My husband asked me to try to get something newer than that one since the problems could have been either the hard drive or just the age/ obsolescence. But since I only have a budget of 500 I know that's not much in Apple world.
What I need to be able to do is light phot/video editing, school work (I have to draw anatomical pictures for my current class) but I also have to log into biodigital human, if you've ever seen that. I have to make powerpoint presentations ( I can get the software for mac from my school) But I want iMessage and Facetime to work.
I am not a heavy gamer or coder. I am the furthest thing from an audiophile. I barely ever listen to music. I like Youtube videos but I don't need the best sound system to hear those. It doesn't have to have the latest and greatest but it does have to get me through school work and allow me to contact my family/ friends using the imessage app and Facetime since most of my long distance family members use these apps and want to keep in touch with me/my kids etc.
Newer than 2011 preferred, since that did not work well for me. Macbook Pro or Air. Can someone tell me what to kind of look for? Even a link to ebay or other sellers would help? Would like to stick to 500 if possible. I need advice since I am new to the apple world. Decided to switch after wanting to punch a hole in multiple windows laptops for giving up on me less than 6 months after purchase. And what I said I do on a laptop is ALL I do. Schoolwork, photo editing, make drawings, check facebook and email that's it. I am boring. So they shouldn't have given up and frozen so much. I decided to leave Windows after the third laptop in a year was just...bad. Any help appreciated. I don't want to get another clunker.
I was looking at this
NICE APPLE MACBOOK AIR 11" 128GB SSD | 8GB RAM | 1.4GHz Intel i5 A1465 +FREECASE | eBay
Wondering if its a good deal and a good thing for what I need??
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