Macbook advice

[zico martin]

Hey guys looking at getting a macbook for my daughter for uni, any red flags with something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TSQV9JN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_P4FK0YB6275YF66DRJR5

 

[Crazyfool01]

2 hours ago, zico martin said:

Hey guys looking at getting a macbook for my daughter for uni, any red flags with something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TSQV9JN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_P4FK0YB6275YF66DRJR5

 

im not an expert in terms of that product but its worth exploring the apple discounts for students offered . I do find apple very intuative though 

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/education-pricing

[zico martin]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

im not an expert in terms of that product but its worth exploring the apple discounts for students offered . I do find apple very intuative though 

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/education-pricing

Yeah cheers Craze she has used an old laptop through school but as a devout iPhone fan she is an apple fan and wants a mac book for uni but didn't really want to pay over a grand for the privilege. I will look into some of these deals but was wondering if the £500 refurb models an amazon are a decent option (bearing in mind they come with a 12 month warranty as well)

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, zico martin said:

Yeah cheers Craze she has used an old laptop through school but as a devout iPhone fan she is an apple fan and wants a mac book for uni but didn't really want to pay over a grand for the privilege. I will look into some of these deals but was wondering if the £500 refurb models an amazon are a decent option (bearing in mind they come with a 12 month warranty as well)

They’ll be as good as new … and that price is bloody good tbh … Apple models are very good at holding value too as long as they are kept in decent Nick … unfortunately I’m locked into Apple systems and love it 🙂 

[vintagelaureate]

On 9/8/2021 at 11:13 PM, zico martin said:

Yeah cheers Craze she has used an old laptop through school but as a devout iPhone fan she is an apple fan and wants a mac book for uni but didn't really want to pay over a grand for the privilege. I will look into some of these deals but was wondering if the £500 refurb models an amazon are a decent option (bearing in mind they come with a 12 month warranty as well)

I have a both - a MacBook Pro and a decent laptop (18 months old) running with an i7 processor. I've slowly transitioned to using the Mac more over the last 6 months, but prefer the laptop for a few things.

It depends on your daughter's usage, but I'd also bare in my mind that a lot of places will be Microsoft based (docx).

The good thing with Apple is it reads and opens docx etc. in its own format, but Microsoft isn't as kind. So there would be a couple of ways around it - getting your daughter to save her work as PDFs or installing Office.

If you need to install Office on a Mac, I'd say you'd be best just sticking to a Windows based laptop as it kind of defeats the purpose!

The official Apple site offers refurbished stock with a  guarantee which is spot on too.