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Posted 26 November 2015
Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display, MF839B/A, Core i5, 128GB, 8GB RAM, 13.3" £799 Zavi Outlet Ebay
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Cheapest price I have seen for this, even better than the last deal.
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If you are an osx user its a good deal
If u r a windows user its not
Its quite simple
This is a terrific price for an excellent laptop.
I own this model, a Surface 3 and an Android phone. I don't care what the make of hardware is as long as it gets the job done. Apple make many overpriced things, but the 13" Retina MacBook Pro isn't one of them. The build quality and screen is fantastic, it's fast as stink with best-in-class SSDs and OS X is reliable and a pleasure to use.
An equivalent spec PC laptop with this level of build quality will be comparative in price, so knock it off with the "overpriced" BS. You want games? Fine, buy a PC. You want to run creative software like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator? You need a Mac.
And as for Linux...knock it off. I've had plenty of experience with Linux and for the mass market it's not even an option. It's great for being free and open source, but good luck with running Microsoft Office, any Adobe software, Dragon dictation...the list goes on and on. And, no, WINE won't cut it.
This is a superb price for this model and will likely provide 99% of non-whinging users with a fast, reliable laptop that will not only last for years with no significant slowdown but hold its value when you do decide to sell it. Heat.
£100 off at Currys, plus 10% Quidco on laptops/Macbooks gets you very close to the original £799 if cashback comes through. Bonus is, you can choose the model instead of being limited to base spec (which was fine for me as it's not my main machine)
Alternatively get a straight 12% off at KRCS, a well known Apple reseller
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However this is a great machine (personally I'd go for next model up with 256Gb SSD) but £150 cheaper than RRP so a great deal. Heated.
I was originally considering the Dell XPS 13 but you need to spend >£1000 to get the high res screen, nothing else really tempted me!
just be careful what you store on it. MicroSD isn't the fastest medium in the world...don't be using it for virtual machines :-) keep it for documents and music etc and you will be good though. also useful as a Time Machine backup location.
Could you please suggest better way of having more space for 128GB Mac? USB 3 or SSD as portable drive or anything else?
The problem with this unfortunately, is the Mac will not go into deep sleep with a card inserted, therefore reduces battery significantly, giving you a lot less usage time. You'll have to pull the card out to conserve battery.
Then one may argue why opt for a discreet special Macbook adapter then? why not just use a normal SD Card or external USB HD that is a cheaper option? .. and they'd be right.
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Personally, I'd pay the extra, but isn't it an extra 2yrs? since you get 12 months anyway?
That's £30 a yr for peace of mind. Having said that I've had an Air for 3yr+ with no issues, then a Mac Retina coming up to 3yrs now, again with no issues therefore never needed to utilise the Apple Care. However.... you never know, given the price of these machines I'd pay the little extra.
People like the special Macbook adaptors purely because of hoe discreet they are though.
a good workaround is an App named 'Mountain' will auto dismount (not eject) when your Mac goes to sleep (allowing deep sleep to work) and remount when it is woken.
Not sure if it is El Capitan ready but works fine with Yosemite
appgineers.de/mou…in/
Any good places to get apple care from?
Best way is dont buy 128GB, buy one with higher storage e.g. 256GB
Already bought a couple of months ago. Not used even 5gb yet, but curious to know the potential solution (not cloud)?
Surely OS X itself uses more than 5gb?
About 11Gb on a clean install. Other than a MicroSD card in an SDCard adaptor only other real option is a Thunderbolt External HDD (expensive and limited cross device value) or a USB 3 HDD
Can't justify it, despite really liking the systems. And for some reason the 13 inch is way cheaper but that's not what I need. Don't understand the lack of budget option there. Can do without 16gb ram, personally.
Is it a good deal? Nope.
Most reliable windows machine so it's still good for that too!
Was it though email like 10% off?
If something is grossly overpriced to start with, then knocking a few quid off the price doesn't make it a deal, it merely makes it slightly less grossly overpriced.
I am not 100% sure, as it is my wife's ebay account and she bought it, but I think it was 10% sent to us via email
Still hot for the sheeps!
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I think u got the concept wrong of a hot deal
Its £100 cheaper than retail
That means its a deal
Fact
Not because u can buy another make cheaper
I can buy a 2 litre Audi for 50k
Only because u can buy a 2 litre ford dont mean the ford is better
Simple fact is that this is a hot deal
A two-litre Ford will get you to where you are going just as quickly as an Audi. The only reason you'd want an Audi is to show off.
But it's a stupid comparison in the context of computers. My Acer is effectively the same as a Macbook - I could run OSX on it if I so desired. So why did my computer cost less than half what this Macbook costs? Because Apple are making enormous profits on bog standard hardware. A rip-off doesn't become a good deal simply because it temporarily becomes slightly less of a rip-off.
Yes.
In fact Excel was written for the Mac before Windows machines even existed.
Good luck with hacking your Acer. With some experience in the Hackintosh field myself I think you've accidentally come up with a good analogy. You might be able to do some of the things nearly as well as a real Mac, but you'll regret it in the long run. You'll be stuck with a lousy software maintenance path and rubbish hardware which is simply more trouble than it's worth. Meanwhile I'm writing this on a 2008 iMac which has just been upgraded to El Capitan and it's just flying. In the nearly 8 years I've owned it, it has seen off two generations of Windows machines which have been foisted on me at work in the meantime and it's halfway through the third. And those almost daily Windows security patches really suck, don't they?
The iMac? Bargain. No question. AND it was an Apple Refurb...