Re: [MacGroup] New laptop particulars

2017-04-05 Thread Sandy Price
Brian — Just a bought a new MacBook Pro. I was going to buy an Apple refurb, 2016 15”, but Amazon had a third-party seller with an excellent rating selling the new version of the same laptop for just $100 more. Decided I would rather have new even with the excellent refurb process and year

Re: [MacGroup] New laptop particulars

2017-04-05 Thread Brian ONeal
It used to be that Apple would release something with updated features that would make it more enticing to buy the newest model. Now it seems like they are stuck on 128 gig ssd drives and 8 gig of ram. Very little trickle down of anything from the "pro" line. Was looking at the $799 MacBook Air

Re: [MacGroup] New laptop particulars

2017-04-04 Thread tom holloman
I'm waiting, but don't have good history of doing right thing. > On Apr 4, 2017, at 4:33 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > > Hi All, > > In the recent discussions about Mac laptops, Lee said that he doesn't always > buy Macs but when he does, he buys refurbs from Apple. > > Does

[MacGroup] New laptop particulars

2017-04-04 Thread Bill Rising
Hi All, In the recent discussions about Mac laptops, Lee said that he doesn't always buy Macs but when he does, he buys refurbs from Apple. Does anyone know if Apple sells refurbs of the next-to-last model? So... if a new MacBook came out in the next month, would they drop the price, but still