(johny641 via ebay) New Apple MacBook Pro MD101LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION) $979 with ebay bucks

Your deal was for a used laptop right recertified and this is BRAND SPANKING NEW. SSD is expensive and difficult to ugprade and hard to find. Ram is soldered in and you are stuck at 4gb for ever. I believe it is a U series cpu which is typically undervolted and underclocked. I think the i5 in the apple is faster.

I spent $950 on the wife's computer and got $27 in reward zone bucks along with 18 month financing with no interest. Right away I dropped in a 256gb samsung 830 which is highly sought after for $170 and 16gbs of ram for $80. Please find do me a favor and ugprade the SSD to 256gb, add 16gb of ram for photoshop and rendering along with virtual machine. Yes resolution blows on the LCD panel but when using it at home it is plugged into a IPS 24" lcd @ 1080p. Different strokes for different folks...enjoy the RECERTIFIED laptop that is not user friendly to upgrades.


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edit: Just realized the Asus battery life is up to 5 hours and apple is up to 7 hours....

With the ASUS Zenbook UX31A deal yesterday for $618, this seems very over priced considering it lacks SSD, 1080p, IPS, and it's 1.6lbs heavier. Just my opinion!

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Just so you know, you're comparing an ultrabook (the Asus) to a Macbook Pro. If you're going to knock the Asus, you should compare it to the Macbook Air, which is as more fair analysis.

That's like me saying that my Asus Republic of Gamers laptop at $1000 is a much better unit than this Macbook Pro at the same price. Well, yes, it most definitely is...assuming I want to game or do video intensive tasks. Not if I'm a student and want long battery life and a lightweight, yet somewhat usable laptop (Macbook Pro). Unfair comparison.

Fairly obvious. He wants to either 1. flip it for profit or 2. hold on to it until after Christmas sales show up and take the better deal.

I'm taking a stand, I'll only buy this if I know for sure I can return it unopened for a 100% refund!

Wrong on both counts. Try again (it actually shouldn't be too difficult because the answer is in the thread, you just have to be able to read).

Assuming you had bothered to attempt to read the thread, you would have seen that the only post you made which even remotely addresses your issue is Post #16. Post #16 is by a different user, quoting a post you had previously made, which has either been edited by you, or deleted by a mod for probably violating some sort of policy.

There were a lot of posts deleted (and not just mine), probably due to bickering. In an attempt to not go down that same road, I won't directly respond to your post.

What I will say is this: I have no understanding why anyone can get so offended by the notion of me asking whether something can be returned unopened. At first thought (without knowing about the tax), I thought it was a good price, and was gonna pull the trigger. If I decide a week later that I no longer want it, or that a gift recipient doesn't need it, etc, etc, why do you care so much? Why do you care so much to start speculating "he probably can't afford it", "he wants to flip it", blah blah. I have no idea why anyone would be so interested in my life. It's pretty dull.