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05-10-2009, 08:14 PM
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| HEXUS.Rent-Boy  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Carlisle, England
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| Apple Macbook Air i've been offered a Macbook Air for £600, it's in very good nick and i think it looks amazing, but, obviously there's a problem otherwise i wouldn't be posting here. EDIT: it's the 2.13GHz model, the bigger and badder one, with an SSD. i've got a few questions. how do i know which are the ones that had the overheating problem? (if any) would i be able to install Win7 on it using bootcamp or whatever it is? is £600 a good deal for a 10 month old Macbook Air? he's only had it since christmas and wants a netbook instead. does anyone have an Air? would you recommend it? what do you find it useful for or, of course, useless at? thanks in advance for any contributions  Last edited by matty-hodgson; 05-10-2009 at 08:19 PM.. |
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05-10-2009, 09:56 PM
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| Re: Apple Macbook Air Originally Posted by mikerr well ya see, it's to replace the Netbook that got broken in my recent 'car crash' (wasn't my fault).
decided to fork out a bit on the replacement and a Mac Air sounded nice soo.. as i was saying, it's to replace a netbook, so the problem with the DVD drive and lack of ports isn't really that much of a big deal, i'd only need 1 USB port for a flash drive and that's it. |
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07-10-2009, 10:08 PM
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 | Re: Apple Macbook Air Sounds like a bargain to me - I would have got one myself if I could have afforded that much for a netbook type device. Mac Pro, 2x Quad core 2.8ghz Xeon, 512mb 8800GT, 4gb DDR2 FB-Dimm Macbook, 1.8ghz Core Duo, 2GB Ram, Superdrive iPhone 2G 2.0.1 "Is it a coincidence that an anagram of gordon brown is "born do wrong" ?, I rest my case. |
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07-10-2009, 10:29 PM
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| Re: Apple Macbook Air If its in very good nick as you say, then at £600 its a very good deal. Not sure whether you could install windows 7 on it, but you could flog it for a nice profit on ebay if you dont like the apple os. Rig 1 Core 2 Quad Q6600 @3.0Ghz w/Xigmatek S1283, XFX Ati 4870X2 2GB, 4GB OCZ PC2-6400 ReaperX, Kingston SSD V series 64GB, Asus P5W DH Deluxe, HP W2007V 20.1inch, Saitek Eclipse, Logitech G9, Coolermaster Stacker 832 SE, OCZ Stealth X Stream 600 Watt Rig 2 Amd 3800 X2, Sapphire Ati X1950XTX + X1950XTX in Crossfire, 2 GB Corsair Value 667Mhz RAM, 250GB 7200.10 HD, Sapphire Pure Crossfire 3200 RD580, Creative XI-FI Xtreme Music, Cyber Snipa Stinger , Samsung 730BF, Coolermaster Mystique 631, HEC 550watt PSU Laptop Toshiba A200-28P, Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1GHz, 3GB RAM, 200GB HD, 15.4 TFT, DVDRW, ATI 2600M 256MB |
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12-10-2009, 11:50 PM
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| Re: Apple Macbook Air with the air you need to be careful with the lid. they seem to be quite fragile as it is so thin. its definitely a great deal for £600 and if there are any problems then just get apple to fix it. i'm sure the heat problems are covered under warranty. since its so cheap i would recommend you to fork out some money for the applecare before it expires. best place to get applecare is from the bay and just so you know i bought 2 applecare plans from the bay and both of them registered fine (1x 24" imac and 1xmacbook unibody) by the way i think the macbook applecare and macbook air ones are the same so you'd be looking to pay around 70euros on the bay  |
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24-10-2009, 01:50 PM
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| Re: Apple Macbook Air I would get it. Do mighty mouse said and get apple to fix any hardware problems under warranty, and then flog it on eBay. Buy yourself something a bit more practical, maybe one of the new white macbooks or whatever tickles your fancy and pocket the change. |
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