Hi, The refurbished ones when purchased through Apple are simply a slightly older than new model but have been tested and likely have new batteries installed. You can often save a couple hundred dollars over the purchase of a new machine, but you are getting older technology. Sometimes that's OK, sometimes not. I found my late 2011 MacBook Pro to be seeming slow for my liking, so swapped out the HD for an SSD, moved the HD over where the optical drive was and bumped it up to 16 GB of RAM for less than $500. I'm hoping I've gained a couple more years out of this machine for much less than purchasing a brand new one. Worked for me but it depends on your needs for what suits you the best.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 6, 2014, at 10:11 PM, venky...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. > Whats the difference between buying a new MacBook and a refurbished one? > I'm more interested to know the differences with regards to battery life and > performance. > Thanks > Venkatesh > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 07-Jul-2014, at 7:36 am, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> You can also check out the refurbished mac store on the Apple site. All come >> with 1 year warranty, and you can buy Apple care to extend the warranty to 3 >> years. Buy the max of what you can afoard. I have a 2010 MacbookPro wtih 8GB >> RAM, & 500GB hard drive. It is 4 years old, and still going strong. >>> On Jul 6, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> I have the following policy regarding buying stuff from Apple: >>> 1. Buy it only if it was just announced. >>> 2. Buy the highest amount of every upgradable resource. >>> >>> In this way, your investment is maximised. >>> >>> You will find this a difficult policy to enforce. You will probably also >>> be glad to hear that I sometimes break my own rules. :) >>> >>> Your usage profile doesn't sound all that different from mine. >>> Nevertheless, I intend my MacBook Pro to last as long as I can make it, so >>> I bumped everything up, including the SSD to 1TB. This turns out to have >>> been a good move, because it means all my data is now on the boot drive, >>> increasing portability and performance (I still don't forgive Apple for >>> making my first MacBook Air a maximum of 256 GB simply because of my choice >>> of screen size). >>> >>> Good luck with your purchase. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Sabahattin >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
