Selling?

[Biscuit]

I was wondering how much i could sell my MBP for because i want to get a nice shiney new one (with a better GPU)
Specs in my sig.

Its just had a new screen and dvd player installed so the clamshell is immaculate, few small marks to the inside around the keyboard but nothing major and the bottom has quite a few scratches on it as i lost 2 of the feet (now they have been replaced).

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Sorry to rain on your parade but the Geforce 9600M GT found in the newer Mac Book Pros is just basically a rebadged 8600M GT with more RAM and a faster clockspeed!!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600M.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...00m_gt_us.html

Both have 32 stream processors BTW!!

Supposedly you will only get a 25% improvement in overall performance:

http://www.lindenlan.net/2008/10/15/...-versus-9400m/

[Biscuit]

thing is i use software called VDMX for live video editing remixing rendering etc and that uses the graphics card quite intensively so i really need to bump up the Vram amount, any clock speed is just a bonus.

[scaryjim]

Supposedly you will only get a 25% improvement in overall performance

I hope I never work for you CAT; if you refer to a 25% performance increase as "only" you must have huge expectations!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I hope I never work for you CAT; if you refer to a 25% performance increase as "only" you must have huge expectations!

Between graphics card upgrades I expect the new card to be at least twice as fast as the old one.

So far my major graphics cards upgrades for my desktop have been:
1.)9500 pro
2.)6800LE unlocked to 16 pipelines and 6 vertex shaders
3.)x1900gt
4.)HD3870
5.)HD4830 - this was because I broke my HD3870!!

TBH even after selling the "old" MBP it will still cost a lot to upgrade to the newer model. It is pathetic that ANY expensive notebook like the previous generation MBP comes with 128mb of RAM for a dedicated graphics card. Even my first notebook from 2003 had a graphics card with 64mb of onboard RAM.

[Biscuit]

Between graphics card upgrades I expect the new card to be at least twice as fast as the old one.

So far my major graphics cards upgrades for my desktop have been:
1.)9500 pro
2.)6800LE unlocked to 16 pipelines and 6 vertex shaders
3.)x1900gt
4.)HD3870
5.)HD4830 - this was because I broke my HD3870!!

TBH even after selling the "old" MBP it will still cost a lot to upgrade to the newer model. It is pathetic that ANY expensive notebook like the previous generation MBP comes with 128mb of RAM for a dedicated graphics card. Even my first notebook from 2003 had a graphics card with 64mb of onboard RAM.

I agree but Quartz composer and VDMX are worth the sacrifice and cost imo

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I agree but Quartz composer and VDMX are worth the sacrifice and cost imo

You just want to upgrade to something shinier don't you!! Darn Macs and their shininess!!

[vinnyT]

Stop procastinating and buy it, you know you will sooner or later, so you may as well do it now.