i think i killed my laptop (Got the new one today!)

[evoWalo]

The 1.83 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, for a suggested retail price of $1,099 (US), includes:

# 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display with 250 cd/m2 brightness
# 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
# 667 MHz front-side bus
# 512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB
# 60GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor
# a slot-load Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive
# Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
# Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately)
# built-in iSight video camera
# Gigabit Ethernet port
# built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
# two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire® 400 port
# one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog
# Scrolling TrackPad
# the infrared Apple Remote
and
# 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.


The 2.0 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, for a suggested retail price of $1,299 (US), includes:

# 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display with 250 cd/m2 brightness
# 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
# 667 MHz front-side bus
# 512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB
# 60GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor
# a slot-load SuperDrive(TM) (DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive
# Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
# Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately)
# built-in iSight video camera
# Gigabit Ethernet port
# built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
# two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port
# one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog
# Scrolling TrackPad
# the infrared Apple Remote
and
# 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.


The 2.0 GHz, 13-inch black MacBook, for a suggested retail price of $1,499 (US), includes:

# 13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display with 250 cd/m2 brightness
# 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor
# 667 MHz front-side bus
# 512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB
# 80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor
# a slot-load SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW) optical drive
# Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
# Mini-DVI out (adapters for DVI, VGA and Composite/S-Video sold separately)
# built-in iSight video camera
# Gigabit Ethernet port
# built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
# two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port
# one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog
# Scrolling TrackPad
# the infrared Apple Remote
and
# 60 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

[dutchmasterflex]

^^ yea if you want to get ripped off my Apple..

Sure hte macbooks look nice.. but come on you can get a similar laptop for about half the price..

There are deals for a HP NX6110 for $499 with free shipping and no tax.. not to sure if theyre still goin on..

Sorry for not postin this earlier, it slipped my mind..

Before you go out and buy something, make sure you check these two sites for deals.

www.gotapex.com and www.techbargains.com

almost every week they have a brand new laptop deal for 500 bucks...

[saadie]

i aybe a bit late .. dont forget to check the new deals at Dell .... heard they have some sweet deals these days .... like a 1.8M 512m with dvd dual layer rw for arround 800bucks .. something like it

[ZfrkS62]

haven't had a chance to shop this week, but i will be checking those sites out. thanks for the help guys

[ZfrkS62]

bought it. my laptop now has started shutting down and refuses to boot back up so it kind of forced my hand

http://www.powersellernyc.com/viewit...g=pricegrabber

$958 shipped with 3 year warranty. It was $778.95 + $30 for 3 day shippng and another $150 to extend the warranty another 3 years.

I was kind of hoping to wait another month or so, but like i said, my Pavillion ZE4365 just said "fuck off" and went on a permanent vacation

[dutchmasterflex]

Sounds like a good deal.. I havent gotten a chance to get my hands on an Acer notebook..

How are your overall first impressions?

[ZfrkS62]

i'll tell you after i get it i just ordered it tonight so i won't get it until tuesday or wednsday.

i need to take the HP's hard drive and find something to stick it in so i can get the info off of it. i have the draft and pics for the engine thread i'm working on sitting on it, along with a shit load of pics of my g/f. everything else is pretty much useless though. probably need to hunt through all the folders though just to make sure.

[dutchmasterflex]

If you don't find something to stick the hard drive in, send it to me and I'll put the data on a bunch of DVDs for you.

[evoWalo]

Identical specs? An identical spec'd PC laptop would start at $1070. If you want a Celeron then they start at $399. But you have to consider is the $1070 & $399 laptop have the same physical dimension & weight? Chances are they're larger & heftier than a Macbook what with the PCMCIA slots that are rarely used and paralel/serial/ps2 ports that pretty much no consumer brand sells devices for anymore.

There's a big diff between a Core Duo & a single core old school processor too. AMD proved clock speeds arent everything but performance per watt is.

Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex ^^ yea if you want to get ripped off my Apple.. Sure hte macbooks look nice.. but come on you can get a similar laptop for about half the price.. There are deals for a HP NX6110 for $499 with free shipping and no tax.. not to sure if theyre still goin on.. Sorry for not postin this earlier, it slipped my mind.. Before you go out and buy something, make sure you check these two sites for deals. www.gotapex.com and www.techbargains.com almost every week they have a brand new laptop deal for 500 bucks...

[ZfrkS62]

you're a couple posts behind evo

Ronin, the problem is my lap top no longer boots up. the lights come on for 3/4 of a second and then it goes out. So uploading everything may not be possible. I think i may have left out an important ground screw when i put it back together and fried a transistor cluster somewhere.

dutch, i'll keep that in mind. It's only a 40gig HD, and i only need a few things from it. mainly pics and stuff like that so it won't take too much space. i'll let you know in the next few days.

my coworker offered me 50 bucks for it so i'm going to sell it to him and hopefully he can get it going again

[saadie]

50 haha ... give it out for 150
btw ... you can get one of those IDE-USE thingy .. but you will have to open the old laptop

[ZfrkS62]

Originally Posted by Saadie 50 haha ... give it out for 150 btw ... you can get one of those IDE-USE thingy .. but you will have to open the old laptop

why would i need to do that? the HD unscrews from the outside and slides right out.

[saadie]

ohh ok ...
btw oppsie .. i meant ide to usb cable ops:

[ZfrkS62]

^ bought one of those cables today and got the shit i needed off of it. 24 bucks from best buy. out of 35gigs of info on it, i only ended up saving about 1.2 gigs where the hell did the rest of it come from?????? :shock:

[saadie]

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