Comments | castellan_craft: The impending sporadicity of Clyde

castellan_craft

The impending sporadicity of Clyde

Nov 15, 2009 01:52

Just a heads up. I likely won't be in touch online as often as I'd like for a stretch here. I've been bitching about computer issues to some of you for awhile now, and they've been getting progressively worse. My laptop finally slowed itself to such a crawl that I couldn't even get Firefox to load my email cause it was timing out ( Read more... )

*headdesk*, personal

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sixthbrightest November 15 2009, 13:40:03 UTC

Aw, sorry to hear about your computer issues! I have been missing you and it is good to know that you yourself are okay ( ... )

castellan_craft November 16 2009, 06:20:32 UTC

I was looking at prices on 15" MacBook Pros. 13 is a little small for my eyes, 17 is nice but not quite worth the extra dough (plus the extra strain on my back carrying it to class).

Sad they only tend to run fall semester. Wonder if for spring semester there'll be an after christmas thing? Waiting till august could be a smarter move though. Who knows, I may end up waiting that long anyway if I decide to save and pay up front instead of a payment plan.

I was actually considering messing with some of the stock configs cause I stress my computers a lot internally. The faster hard drive would be a good idea. The 8 gig ram would be too, but I'm not quite that rich. Anti glare is a near must; I'm sick of rotating at awkward angles on the couch to see the screen. Other stuff adds up of course. I may just have to suck it up and go for a refurb: if it works, it work, yanno? Still, might be able to find a payment plan that's agreeable, just don't much like the idea of being in debt on anything. And I completely spaced on the everyday ( ... )

sixthbrightest November 16 2009, 17:07:50 UTC

Well, I hope these answers help. If you've got any more, re-comment or email me. Or hell, I believe I posted my phone # in a locked post May 29th and you should be able to see it, so if you REALLY wanna catch me post 9PM EST go for it ( ... )

sixthbrightest November 16 2009, 21:49:58 UTC

Oh, and re the waiting for fall thing: the biggest fall deal is just "Buy an iPod with it and get a rebate card back in 8 weeks covering the price of an iPod". So, unless you want an iPod touch, it's kinda a useless promotion; there's no deal off the computer.

There MAY be small Black Friday discounts, but I don't know if that is too soon for you to act re: financing. The prior discounts appear to be 50-150 off discounts, basically giving everyone the edu discount; I do NOT know if these couple with the edu discounts. Again, dunno if this is too soon for you. Best Buy may also be selling Macs @ a small Black Friday discount.

And, looking @ the 15" refurbs, right now for $1500 there's a 15"/2.53GHz/4GB RAM/250GB HD/illum keyboard/ nvidia 9400M graphics...which is $250 off. So when you do decide plz do keep your eye on the refurbs as they are quite decent.