Here is some official refurbished Macbook Pro (2016) listed at Apple store.
Apple Certified Refurbished Macbook Pro
There are some other 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB models available, Good for those who are looking for CTO large SSD Macbook Pro model at a better price.
Exactly
Rotten rewaxed apples at a premium?
Refurbished 15.4-inch Macbook Pro 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 with Retina display - Space Grey
Originally released October 2016
15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display; 2880x1800 native resolution at 220 pixels per inch
16GB of 2133MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
256GB PCIe-based onboard SSD1
720p FaceTime HD Camera
Radeon Pro 450 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory
A$3,059.00
Crazy price for a 256GB laptop.
I couldn't afford a new one so I bought couple of these
3000 dollars for refurbished lol. Wonder whos stuiped enough to buy this
I bought 6.
hi5
Broden!
[Expired] Oz-Bargained?
someone who cant spell stupid? hehehehehehehehehe kidding!! couldn't help it sorry
someone who cant spell stupid? hehehehehehehehehe kidding!! couldn't help it sorry
Or capitalise, or punctuate … meh.
stuiped?
I.R.O.N.Y
these are usually the ones from the apples stores around the country
512TB model
O_o
Haha, you've a keen eyesight. 😊
Fixed.
Haters gonna hate. Good deal OP. These have great resale value after 3 years too!
I've bought a few refurbished stuff from Apple and they are practically brand new with full warranty so you're getting a new item for a pretty good discount.
Plus some say the refurbished ones are less likely to have problems, since they've been re-tested.
Modern robotic manufacturing process produces products that don't take kindly to manual repairs.
Plus some say the refurbished ones are less likely to have problems, since they've been re-tested.
I don't buy it. They probably get tested for all of 30 seconds, which would only catch obvious problems. I had iPhones replaced with refurbished ones, and those were much more likely to have intermittent faults.
But they did have the same warranty restarted from zero, and (at least for the phones) they had new cabinets indistinguishable from a new phone. Just the innards are reused (except battery).
My friend received a refurbished iPhone as a warranty replacement. Within a year, the battery exploded. Luckily, he wasn't using the iPhone at the time.
Apple may have packaged their refurbished products better than most of the other companies, but refurbished is still refurbished.
To be fair, new ones also explode (apple included)… So it's not exactly a refurb problem.
Ludicrous. Even brand new at that price they are not worth it, especially this current port less iteration!
Just do a performance comparison to a Dell XPS 13/15 and the price should be $3000 max new if you include the extra for exclusivity and the touch bar. No touchscreen and large bezel are quite a compromise though
MacBook Pro smokes Dell XPS in real world tests
It's just that simpletons only look at paper specs
large bezel
Lol. What's point of being able to see another 4mm of stuff behind your screen? I think most people look at the bright part in the centre. Also that thin bezel comes at a cost of a webcam that looks up your nose from the bottom left corner of your screen in the XPS13 or up your nose through your knuckles on the XPS15. All because Dell users find a 8mm bezel too "large".
I'm not sure what you mean by "exclusivity". Touch on Windows is not practical and is poorly implemented.
The Dell XPS 13/15 has numerous issues, including, in particular, driver issues. Even today my similar spec'ed Latitude E7470 had issues resulting from a dodgy driver for the M2 nvme SSD (took a fair bit of troubleshooting to identify the cause of the extreme slowness too).
While Apple may be more expensive, I have never had similar issues with Apple devices. They just work. If I had my choice again, I wouldn't think twice about spending more on Apple issues. I'll just have to find a way to get it to hook up to my two 27" Dell monitors.
Do we have to have all the same comments everytime an iPhone or Mac sale item gets posted?
We get it. It's crazy expensive.
And it doesn't even have ports for USB A, Ethernet, HDMI, Displayport, Firewire, DVD, Floppy Disk or Gameboy Link cable!
But its does have USB-C and a 3.5mm headphone socket, unlike the iPhone.
they lacked courage
SCSI ? SCART ? Parallel Port ? 7 pin serial Port ? Cinch ? PS/2 Mouse ?
Add Dyson in there!
Actually when you factor in resale value they are a lot cheaper than equivalent Windows spec laptops.
It's just that most are simpletons who only look at specs on paper
Looking to get the 2015 MBPro 15inch. I'm waiting on the 10% JB-Hi discount. They had it in Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar. Anyone knows how likely they'll have it in April? Didn't happen last April.
April Fools was last week ….. :-( .. !!
Don't forget, you need another $300 for all the ports/adapters so you can use it.
Rubbish
$3,309 for a 2016 model !!!
Whos kidding who
Do they still teach kids what months are in school these days?
Not sure if i should sell my left or right kidney to afford these :(
I'm selling defect, HD removed, no memory, broken screen, APPLE POWERBOOK PRO for $2'000.
Looks good when carrying around, unopened during meetings and interviews, on the coffee-table at Starbucks.
It's funny cause my work mate spent $3k on one of these to upgrade from his old MacBook and now he keeps forgetting to bring HDMI adaptor. Perfect example of spending money to make life more inconvenient.
Not defending Apple prices (especially current prices, they're off the hook) in the slightest, BUT…
What are people in this threads problem with Apple Refurbished?
So, at some point, an actual human has inspected or fixed any possible issue?
The alternative being a product being spat out the end of a production line with zero intervention, which could be completely hit or miss?
I simply don't get how this would be a problem. Are people all OCD on germs or something? What's wrong with it having had some diagnostics run on it at some point??? Does one 'within margin of error' bad component mean we should throw the entire thing in a landfill?
I've had a wide range of brand new AND refurbished products from Apple and never noticed a single difference between them. In fact, I've had to warranty most of them at some point (sure, the materials feel nice but they don't actually equate to a durable build, and use the same processors, components, etc, as basically every other laptop), and I'd say that the more error prone were actually the ones I paid full price for.
Curious to hear what people's reasoning is.
There's no reasoning, it's an produce with premium pricing on a bargain website. These are people who will come out in droves berating people for buying mechanical keyboards, expensive headphones or good quality rice cookers. They will never come close to the products they criticise and will therefore never form any objective opinion. They're just here stretch the legs on their high horse.
You sound like you paid no income tax last year, Mr. Millionaire.
Hi, I've been thinking of trying out a Mac.
What is a good HDD drive size to have as a minimum?
Just interested in trying it out with Microsoft Office ..etc. No games.
Thanks.
Office, Adobe, web browsing, etc will fit comfortably on a 128Gb drive, but expect to fill it up and have to manage it from time to time.
256Gb is probably a 'no-fuss' amount. Anything more and you should understand you're a bit of a downloader, hoarder, or not very good at HD management…
Thanks heaps! I'll definitely ensure that I get a minimum of 256Gb. Assume that HDDs can't be upgraded like a normal windows laptop?
Correct, it's been a few years since you could simply rip the HDD out of a Macbook (and a lot of Windows ultrabooks too) and replace it with something of larger capacity.
Unfortunately, you're stuck with what you buy, and that applies to RAM too. In 2017, I wouldn't buy less than 8Gb RAM unless you do only the most basic computing tasks (few browser tabs, email, iTunes, etc).
Couldn't agree more about this comment, I've been a downloader, hoarder way too long, my wife has been complaining that I've spent too much money for HDD than jewellery and other romantic spends, to the point that she could divorce me…
ROTFL
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