Just got my first mac!


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I have wanted a mac for the longest time and I just finally bought one off craigslist! It's a rev. D white macbook (refurbished), came with a mighty mouse, and it has the following specs:

-2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo

-2GB DDR2 RAM

-120GB Hard Drive

-Superdrive

-GMA x3100 Graphics

-Leopard 10.5.4 installed

I was so happy because I got it for only $750 including the original box, reinstall media, cleaning cloth, power adaptor, and a bluetooth mighty mouse! It's in pristine condition and I can't get over how much nicer it is than running Mac OS X on a PC. Everything literally "Just Works!"

PS: Sorry for the horrible image quality. The pic was taken on my phone!

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you lucky dog you ! Congrats

I just tore down my linux box (giving up on the whole linux thing for a multitude of reasons)

So now I have this small space I need to occupy with....hmm.... A macbook Pro 15" ? :D

Im glad to see so many people giving apple a chance

I make my living off of pc(s), yet always had alot of respect for apple -

does Microsoft still own $300,000,000 of non-voting shares of apple ?

I think Microsoft does own a lot of shares of apple lol. Then again, with how their stock price only seems to rise over time, Microsoft is not too bad off. I bought my 5 shares of Apple when it was at roughly $35 a share and look where it is now :laugh:

Thanks! Yeah, I was honestly surprised I was able to get one that cheap. I had been praying I would be able to get one before tuesday because I was getting my wisdom teeth pulled and really wanted to have my mac to mess around with for the 5 days I was gonna have to stay at home and recover lol.

Yeah, Larry's comment is classic lol. This guy was selling it for $800 on craigslist (still a steal but I didn't have $800), so I offered him $750 and he said ok, and when he got there that night he was like "man, guys offered me even $850 for this" and I pretty much just said "thanks for still coming and selling it to me for $750!" I was probably the most excited I have been in a while right then :laugh:

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