I just bought a Mac Book Pro!
I have been looking for a Macintosh (preferably, a laptop) for a few months now. I've been wanting to get into iOS developement (iPhone apps), for awhile. I was contemplating building a hackintosh desktop, and still might do it, but decided to get this laptop for now.
It is a late 2008, with 15.4" screen, 2.4 dual core i5 processor, 4Gb (2 x 2Gb simms) of DDR3 RAM, 500Gb hard drive, and dual Nvidia graphics cards. It had only 250 cycles on the battery (which I think 500 is the degenerating point), and is in Normal condition. It has Mavericks 10.9.2 already installed.
The owner wanted $600, but I paid $575 for it. EBay normally sells these for around $700-$800 and they sold for over $1200 new. Yes, it is an older computer and not top of the line. I'm not too sure if it even does Air Share with my Apple TV (I hope it does), but it is what I need to work on XCode.
I downloaded and installed XCode last night and played a bit with some template examples. I didn't have too much time to tinker as I went out to a free screening of "A Million Ways to Die in the Wild West"; very funny movie...but very adult humor.
I need to now figure out how to connect my dual monitors to this laptop to have a comfortable work environment. I plan on spending a lot of time on it :-).
1 comment:
I honestly think that you got a pretty good deal out of that. Considering the fact that it is a MacBook Pro, the specs of your late 2008 model can already be compared side by side to the Windows laptops that came out just last year. Although they are direct competitors, I still think the deal in which you got your MacBook pro for is quite a revelation. Anyway, I hope you're enjoying your new MacBook. Take care!
Cordia Remsen @ RBSMN
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