Hi, folks: I've reached a point with the MacBook Pro itself (hardware build and similar things) to the point where I'm going to be selling it. Even got an add already posted up. You're free to ask me why I'm selling it, but it's not something you should need to ask once you read the posting or see the add. Either of these will describe it, but I'll talk about it here. For the last several months, as a musician attempting to leep well beyond GarageBand, Logic Pro or other software, (and no) I'm not specializing nor do I desire to utilize ProTools in any case, I settaled ages ago on Cakewalk Sonar. At first, via BootCamp, I thought the MacBook Pro Early 2011 released in Feb of that year by Apple would work for Cakewalk Sonar. However, it is not properly designed. I'm basicly done and throwing in the towl personally with Apple, Inc in terms of: 1. Using a DAW tool such as GarageBand that I personally dislike due to what I consider to be the largest failure in the history of Apple Accessibility attempts, that being a failure to make the note editor accessible, for one. 2. I'm done with being patient, while I watch something like GarageBand continue to be developed for iOS and not for the Mac platform. 3. Apple has been cutting corners since 2010, well before Steve Job's died in terms of cheapo half-done hardware design, and following unethical business practices that I will not get into hear, because that's not the purpose behind this list. I could continue to rant, but I won't. In terms of providing a screen reader and universal accessibility? I'm all for it. But having a machine that I no longer wish to use is something I cannot allow to simply be. It's had a large upgrade done to it's RAM, well beyond most laptops. I think somebody, can benefit from it. It's a good machine, when used with Apple software specificly. But I have no more use for it, end of story. To that end, I posted an add on BlindBargains on Friday. Already reset the machine so that all one needs to do is press CMD F5 after booting to begin the process of entering Apple details. If anybody is interested in perhaps buying this, please feel free to visit the following URL. Even if nobody is, please feel free to spread this URL around. It will take you in short order to the add in question. Thanks in advance for spreading this around to anybody you might know of who may be willing to aquire this machine, as I do not wish the machine's remaining shelflife to be spent just sitting about. Nor do I wish to simply give it away for free, (sorry folks) somebody will have to pay up if they want it. I've invested too much to allow the hardware to be soled for nothing. Not saying anybody personally here would try to go to that level with me simply to avoid coughing up the money into my hand basicly, but somebody already contacted me from the add being posted Friday trying to get me to knock my price to $99/$100 witch I won't do, and then the person insisted absolutely that I give this box away for nothing. Nope. Not going to happen, period, end of story. That's only common sense. Again, thanks for spreading this about a bit. In the end, this was a personal decision to promote my professional music production work. The Mac simply turned out not to be the correct buy. Nothing wrong with admitting this much. It's not a question of how useable or accessible VoiceOver itself is. It's a question if the raw components that make up the machine can handel what I'm doing. In this case, they cannot. I also know of no local folks interested in obtaining such a machine. Not for the asking price anyways, and the studio stuff I'm acquiring is not going to change price simply because I try to lower an asking price to please the masses, so no can do. Again, much appreciated. I'll almost surely post back here helping other's who have Mac questions, as I've learned an aweful lot over the last year. But at least for now, the road of Mac and I have ended our ways for now, and all that matters at this point is seeing that this machine finds a home with somebody who will appreciate the amount of RAM given to this machine. Thanks! URL: http://www.keithnet.us/goodbye-macbook-pro-hello-professional-musician-work/
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