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Second hand (or refurbished), last gen 15" Macbook Pro. I use one of these for development, no complaints.

• alnayyir 18y ago
  How much did you pay, and where did you get it from? What do you develop in/on?
  • tower10 18y ago
    I bought mine new a while back (~$3000 AUD) from Apple. Just looking at eBay, they seem to go for a touch over $1000 USD at the moment. I figure they're a bit of a bargain at the moment since they're perfectly capable and have just been replaced by the shiny new model. I mainly develop Ruby Rails/Merb apps with TextMate.
    • alnayyir 18y ago
      Egads, I love textmate. Another reason I want a mac. That and darkroom and a multitude of other apps. :| I'll poke around ebay and see if I find anything worthwhile.
      • varaon 18y ago
        Free Darkroom, plus cross-platform. http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/
        • alnayyir 18y ago
          It sucks, sorry. :(
          • fuckymcfuckfuck 18y ago
            you suck
• zackola 18y ago
  Agreed. Find a mac addict on craigslist who bought one right before the new ones came out. Spend 50 bucks at crucial to max out the memory to 4GB. Mmmm. Tasty memory.
  • alnayyir 18y ago
    Not a bad idea at all, finding one that is affordable is critical. Also, I don't even own a mac other than my powermac G4 and I still check (macrumors is it?) that one site that has a guesstimate on when new models are due to come out. That way if I buy a new one, I don't get screwed.
• davidmathers 18y ago
  Yes. This (Penryn MacBook Pro) is absolutely the best developer computer available. Amazon had the 2.5 GHz model (the one Apple was selling for $2500 a few months ago) for $1500, but it looks like that deal ended with December. Maybe it will come back. You can still get the 2.4 GHz model (orig $2000) for $1400 from MacMall and maybe other places.