My mates offered me his old MBP for £400 anygood?

[Lozza-p]

Hi guys my mates offered me his old MBP as I'm pissed off with my crappy pc and I'm after a laptop not really sure what I'm looking at in specs etc but he's just sent me this is it any good? Sorry for being so thick.

 

[_Logie]

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP4

Full specs mate.

Eh, I'd offer him £325 - £350 for it. It's an early 2008 model but it is a MacBook Pro. I'd say go for it.

 

[Lozza-p]

Cheers for your quick reply are they ok or are there problems on the early ones ?

 

[_Logie]

Not that I would know of but all the Apple heads in here will give you a good run down on the MBP when they see this thread. Worth the money if you want a MBP I suppose.

 

[jenic]

Spot on valuation

http://www.mac2sell.net/permalink/?id=73826f4853a3d498d081f2134cb480e7

 

[olliewebbuk]

It's got a Nvidia 8600GT. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

Only a matter of time before the GPU cooks itself.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, early runs of that model had heat issues.

 

[olliewebbuk]

They all had issues. Hence the Nvidia lawsuit.

 

[Krispwee]

I'm not a fan of the Mac2Sell site. It seems to massively undervalue a lot of things compared to what things actually sell for on eBay and the likes.

 

[Lozza-p]

so what macbook pro would be a good one to look for?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

so what macbook pro would be a good one to look for?

The best one that suits your budget ?!

How big a laptop do you need/want, what do you want it for ?

 

[Lozza-p]

Yer spose abit of info would help lol.

Well I'm after it to use for dj'ing like Controlling the decks, recording mix's
As I don't want the laptop to crash while I'm using it I'm thinking MBP and also pos using it to write tracks on in the future. Also need to burn cd's etc. Also just normal laptop use like the net.

 

[spirez]

I use Serato Scratch Live on a 2010 13", 2.4ghz core 2 duo and 4gb ram.

Never skips a beat.

Screen size is fine for DJing. I try not to look at the screen too much anyway and just got by ear. If you want to produce just hook it up to an external monitor as even a 15" screen isn't great for that sort of stuff.