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WTB MacBook pro or IMAC. Help needed
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Hi.
Looking for a MacBook, work laptop died do need a replacement. Looking for max of 500.
Now I am coming out of being ill, I want to get something I can record some tunes on.
I think 8gb or higher would be better and looking for 2014 or slightly more recent.
I have seen a few on eBay but as we can not go to view at the moment, it makes me nervous in buying unseen
Anyone got one to sell or why experts that can help me choose the right one
Thank you
Pete
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What kind of recording are you gonna do ......... if your gonna be using intensive VSI's and huge sample library's across 100 odd tracks then the better the spec the better it will be. If you only plan on recording 30 odd tracks of guitars \ drums \ bass keys and vox etc then older Macbook with 4Gb will be fine
Always look up the serial number before buying rather than the AXXX number ... the year it was built can determine the last supported OSX it can run which can be crucial.
Give a lot of though to what your really gonna be using it for ... I lot of people think they need incredible amounts of power for their music production and they really don't ..... My Macbook Pro is the very first one from 2006 with 2Gb ram and I've done quite a few professional projects with that. I'm not suggesting you go that old .... mid 2012 machine be a good bet as very upgradable and pretty solid design
I do have a Microsoft Surface Pro that I was running Linux on, I'm just putting Windows back on it if that would be of any interest?
Simon
At home i would be using loops, drums mainly and synth plug ins, probably some for of Amplitube type software.
I was hoping 8gb would suit. I have been looking at this one
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274333096556
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It's also worth noting that the screenshots show that the O/S is quite out of date, that spec should support the latest Catalina version - but remember that Catalina does not support some older applications so this version may suit you better.
I would ask the seller to do the system upgrade to the latest O/S version, send you a screenshot to prove it, and then offer no more than 400 for it.
Macs are amazing machine but they aren't made out of dead unicorns, it's fine years old already.
Regards,
Simon
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It'll be a while until I can get to the office to collect it, but if you want to wait for that you are welcome to have it for a decent price. I was thing around 500 but would have to confirm the spec first.
Cheers,
Simon
240GB WD Green SSD, 3 year warranty £37.79 delivered, from a certain ubiquitous online giant.
It might not be the absolute bestest, fastest etc. but as bang for your buck, it's fine.
Original HD, 2 minutes 20 seconds to boot Catalina. SSD 15 seconds...
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That Macbook Pro your looking at is fine, nice machine as long as it's all kosher. You just need to be careful buying used Apple products because the spares are more expensive. A motherboard failure in something like a Dell Latitude laptop might be as much as £150 to replace but changing a Macbook Pro motherboard can be £300 upwards just for the part. When looking at one check the condition of the screws on the bottom ... they use a certain torx size. If the screws look marked and not in pristine condition you know someone who didn't even have the correct tools has been in there and that's never a good sign.
Still sounds too much to be honest, but if it is local to you and you need it in a hurry, get the seller to do the upgrade to the latest O/S before anything else
Maybe the Amazon and specialist refurbished sites are better, some on eBay seem shocking
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Your adverage laptop refurbisher buys ex corporate lease laptops and wipes the harddrive, loads a new OS, cleans the laptop and it's sold as a refurb. There's very little margin for the seller so they don't spend any money on them. Amazon sellers are often just people working from home or small companies buying ex lease laptops same as Ebay. Anyone can sell on Amazon, we used to sell 35K of Dell, HP and IBM parts a fortnight before the market became a wash with cheap fakes and we couldn't compete pricewise as our genuine parts cost more to start with. If you buy from Amazon themselves then that's different but most of Amazon is just re-sellers like I used to be