Should I buy MacBook Pro now or wait? ("power" ;-) user)

RaymondLin

djspecialist said:

octatonic said:

djspecialist said:

Apple used to sell refurb models - that's what I bought in 2013.  IIRC it was 15% off the list price.

For 15% you could try to find a student who can buy it for you.
Same discount and it will be a brand new model.

Sure, although in that case the warranty won't be in your name.

They don't give out the 3 year Apple Care now either with HE discount.  It's just straight 10% off.

pmbomb

Update:

I bought a good spec '15 second hand (yay)
Good price, arrived promptly (yay)
Oh US keyboard, which is as on the sales spec so my bad, oops (& boo)

I do have a right of return but otherwise am happy.

Anyone use a US keyboard - does it take long to get used to/matter much?

crunchman

pmbomb said:

Update:

I bought a good spec '15 second hand (yay)
Good price, arrived promptly (yay)
Oh US keyboard, which is as on the sales spec so my bad, oops (& boo)

I do have a right of return but otherwise am happy.

Anyone use a US keyboard - does it take long to get used to/matter much?

Never got used to it on the one I had.

stonevibe

You need to know someone that works at Apple to get a decent discount... 

Lodious

pmbomb said:

Update:

I bought a good spec '15 second hand (yay)
Good price, arrived promptly (yay)
Oh US keyboard, which is as on the sales spec so my bad, oops (& boo)

I do have a right of return but otherwise am happy.

Anyone use a US keyboard - does it take long to get used to/matter much?

I switch back and forward between UK and US keyboards at work (frequently with the regional settings set wrongly :-( ) and I don't find it that bad. The tiny enter keys which seem to be getting popular these days piss me off a lot more then regional keyboard differences. 

olafgarten

Lodious said:

pmbomb said:

Update:

I bought a good spec '15 second hand (yay)
Good price, arrived promptly (yay)
Oh US keyboard, which is as on the sales spec so my bad, oops (& boo)

I do have a right of return but otherwise am happy.

Anyone use a US keyboard - does it take long to get used to/matter much?

I switch back and forward between UK and US keyboards at work (frequently with the regional settings set wrongly :-( ) and I don't find it that bad. The tiny enter keys which seem to be getting popular these days piss me off a lot more then regional keyboard differences. 

The only noticeable differences that you will come across regularly are the lack of the £ symbol and the quotation marks and @ sign are swapped. 

roberty

You can set the keyboard for UK and just remember where the keys are. This is my keyboard, it's OS/region agnostic :-)

Axe_meister

I can't see the next revision of the MacBook being significantly more powerful.
My current work MacBook already has a six core processor 32GB memory and a fast M.2 drive.
Not much it can't handle, if you need more processing power set up a cloud account.
PS just playing with a 12TB memory virtual machine, with 224 cores at work. Yes that is 12TB of Ram.

pmbomb

Update - I bought a used '15 from eBay, £1400, seems good to me.

Performance is not much better than my '13 (no biggie, that's as expected) but the 1TB SSD is a godsend and I can relax now this is my frontline machine and the '13 is still good to step in if this fails.

Setup took a couple of hours via a Time Machine backup and a couple of tech tweaks below the hood.

I'd barely know it was a different machine save the screen is unmarked and the keys unworn.