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From: nospam on 5 Feb 2010 23:44
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<jwolf6589-63123E.23420705022010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> Soon I plan to buy a new Mac. I wish to buy the MacBook Pro, but I wont
> buy a Mac that will need to be upgraded whenever Mac OSX Lion, Cheetah,
> or Mac OS 11 show up.

cheetah was 10.0 and snow leopard will be around for a while.

> So I will wait till they release one with a larger
> hard drive and more RAM. Does anyone know when Apple will release new
> MacBook pro's with more RAM and a larger Hard drive?

<http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/>

> I mean 160GB's?
> Come on man, thats only twice as much as I have in my iBook G4. 2 GB's
> RAM? Come on man thats not enough.

so pick one of the larger capacity hard drives or swap it yourself.
memory is cheaper if you add it yourself too.
From: Jolly Roger on 6 Feb 2010 02:03
In article
<jwolf6589-63123E.23420705022010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> Soon I plan to buy a new Mac. I wish to buy the MacBook Pro, but I wont
> buy a Mac that will need to be upgraded whenever Mac OSX Lion, Cheetah,
> or Mac OS 11 show up. So I will wait till they release one with a larger
> hard drive and more RAM. Does anyone know when Apple will release new
> MacBook pro's with more RAM and a larger Hard drive? I mean 160GB's?
> Come on man, thats only twice as much as I have in my iBook G4. 2 GB's
> RAM? Come on man thats not enough.

2 GB of RAM?! 160 GB hard drive?! What on Earth are you talking about?

You can get a MacBook Pro from Apple with 8 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard
drive. And if you want to save money, you can buy the base model and
purchase the RAM and a larger/faster hard drive separately and install
them yourself.

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From: nospam on 6 Feb 2010 02:32
In article <jollyroger-F5076B.01035306022010(a)news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> > Soon I plan to buy a new Mac. I wish to buy the MacBook Pro, but I wont
> > buy a Mac that will need to be upgraded whenever Mac OSX Lion, Cheetah,
> > or Mac OS 11 show up. So I will wait till they release one with a larger
> > hard drive and more RAM. Does anyone know when Apple will release new
> > MacBook pro's with more RAM and a larger Hard drive? I mean 160GB's?
> > Come on man, thats only twice as much as I have in my iBook G4. 2 GB's
> > RAM? Come on man thats not enough.
>
> 2 GB of RAM?! 160 GB hard drive?! What on Earth are you talking about?

base configuration of a 13" macbook pro.
From: Richard Maine on 6 Feb 2010 03:10
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-F5076B.01035306022010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > Soon I plan to buy a new Mac. I wish to buy the MacBook Pro, but I wont
> > > buy a Mac that will need to be upgraded whenever Mac OSX Lion, Cheetah,
> > > or Mac OS 11 show up. So I will wait till they release one with a larger
> > > hard drive and more RAM. Does anyone know when Apple will release new
> > > MacBook pro's with more RAM and a larger Hard drive? I mean 160GB's?
> > > Come on man, thats only twice as much as I have in my iBook G4. 2 GB's
> > > RAM? Come on man thats not enough.
> >
> > 2 GB of RAM?! 160 GB hard drive?! What on Earth are you talking about?
>
> base configuration of a 13" macbook pro.

Yep. And clicking the button to select a BTO option is just so hard, as
is selecting the other base 13" configuration. :-)

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From: nospam on 6 Feb 2010 13:12
In article
<jwolf6589-CE5EB1.07494806022010(a)newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to buy a Mac soon, but they are so blasted expensive.

they're comparably priced to windows machines with the same specs.

> I wish Apple would consider dropping their prices to make things more
> affordable during this recession.

what in hell for? their sales are increasing.

> I could get a PC laptop for under $500.

and it will have worse specs than a macbook.

you could buy a used macbook for under $500 though.

> I very much wish to buy a Mac but them cutting the FireWire on the
> $1000 model and my iBook being repaired for under $100 may mean I will
> stick with Tiger for awhile.

what firewire peripherals do you need? usb hard drives work reasonably
well and if money is an issue, that's a compromise you might need to
make.
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