Assistance in getting a Macbook (Pro) - Page 2

MattyDJ · #9 January 4th, 2007, 10:47 AM

Ok guys all of your information has been very helpful thank you for all of your replies

Unfortunately there are no jobs for me at my age that i can do so i'm going to start saving money now by selling the parts that still work from my old pc and a few other things. (Mum has like 1000 old records she wants to sell) could be quite a while until i can get a mac desktop laptop or whatever. And to the people who suggested a desktop. Good idea but i require portability and carrying a mac mini to school and plugging it in good be a little bit of hassle

Thanks Anyway

Trip · #10 January 4th, 2007, 10:40 PM

While we're at it... if anybody wants to help me pay rent so I can continue my college education, I'm accepting donations of ANY size currently ($1 to $100).

jyhm · #11 January 5th, 2007, 12:27 PM

Hello MattyJ,

I don't know what your hardware requirements are but if you can afford the shipping you can have my Grape 333 mhz iMac for free.

I think it has a 40gig HD
384 mb RAM
CD-ROM
I live in the US.

Lt Major Burns · #12 January 5th, 2007, 12:35 PM

now that ^^^ is an offer. you can upgrade that to Panther, upgrade it it to 512mb ram, the 40gb hard drive is more than enough and if you really want to, i'm sure you could swap out the CD-ROM drive for even a superdrive.

jyhm · #13 January 5th, 2007, 12:49 PM

I'm not sure if can swap the cd rom for a super because the cdrom is quite different than others for this model. Unless they have one at http://www.macsales.com

It has OS9 now but I used to run OSX on it. I'm pretty sure I kept the 40gig in there and didn't put back the 6gig. I can check if you want.

Not sure how much it weighs. Therefore I'm unsure how much it would cost to send to UK.

MattyDJ · #14 January 21st, 2007, 08:39 PM

Ok you wanted me to keep you posted so heres the update.
I sold the damaged tower for repairs and a few other things to make some £££.
I checked ebay and bought the cheapest macbook i could find on there. Only problem now is paypal refused to let me pay without setting up bank funding. So now i'm risking bad feedback and a relisted item while waiting for the 2 small payments paypal sent to my bank account to clear.