With the downpour of negativity of my last thread, I was just wondering if any of you that are Mac enthusiasts or just use them or are involved with Mac updates and all that jazz able to give me an idea of what YOU would pay for:
2013" Macbook Pro w/
4 months of warranty left and the traditional specs:
- 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
- Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
- 4GB 1600MHz memory
- 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive1
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Built-in battery (7 hours)2
I've dropped it all the way from £750 to £650 /w 15 shipping but I still seem to be getting a lot of users wanting it for around 585 + shipping, so do you think it's still a tad too high or are Macbook pros just as valuable anymore?
If anyone has any insight, I would love your input as I'm in a bit of a tight situation at the moment (financially) and I need to sell this on, so I can manage other things and get them sorted.
Thanks
is that the baseline MD101**/A? If so it's relatively old hardware (mid 2012) and significantly slower / worse than apple's other offerings. Maybe the GBP isn't doing so hot 'cause you can get that brand new with full apple limeted warranty for $999 here in the US (for students. Retail is $100 more I believe). In actuality apple just requires a student ID # and .edu e-mail address.
Why even list turbo boost? just list the processor model number (intel 3210M) and call it good. It will save serious buyers some time
RAM, HDD are all lowest-end stuff. Can be upgraded but won't help your price.
Here's the deal as I see it: It's not even got applecare, it's really old, and it's the lowest end mac you can buy. If it had higher specs (like the 15" pre-retinas did with the GPU and CPU offerings, mainly due to them shoehorning a second fan in there) then it'd probably have kept it's value a lot more. Only cheapskates want the baseline so they can have the apple experience at low cost and such people will lowball you until they get a cheap deal. Apple fans usually shell out for better hardware.
anyway, that's my theory. I got a much better computer, running an OS I prefer, for much cheaper recently, so I'm quite happy. It seems the market for "not-well-used" machines isn't strong. or perhaps low-end business machines like your MBP and my HP just go for cheap. Before I sold it for $150 to a friend, I had offers of $500 for my mac pro 1,1 workstation from 2006. It's some of the first intel hardware apple made and still performs well with today's computers. It has dual xeon processors and 8*1gb RAM which was pretty impressive at the time. Even now it ran games fine with a modern GPU. I think the market for high end stuff will always be stronger than the market for low.
Knowing this, I think it's a good idea to buy used for lower end stuff and buy new for higher (unless your friend is giving you a good deal on some hardware).
according to ebay, these seem to go for about $650 for a decent one with some exceptions at about $800. That's 400 - 500 gbp. I think the rest of the difference is between the pricicng structure of apple It seems they price their computers a lot higher in the UK.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=md101ll%2Fa&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_fsradio2=%26LH_PrefLoc%3D99&_sadis=15&_stpos=&_fspt=1&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sanli=1&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1Anyway, best of luck with your sale. I do hope you get good money for it, but I think there's some obstacles in the market that will make it harder, unfortunately.
