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2013, November 19 - 6:29am

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Is it still worth buying the Macbook White laptop?

Hi, i would like your advise about a purchase of a Macbook,

Well, one of my friends is offering me the White Macbook for the equivalent of $90 USD
with Mac OS X Snow leopard 2.4Ghz 64bit processor but 3 keys don´t work ( p, ñ, -)
and a few scratches on the corners which I´ve learned that that was a design defect
but it doesn´t bother me,
I know those Macs were really expensive, when they came out
in Mexico were about $2000 USD, so $90 bucks got me a bit "cheerful"
(excuse my lack of english)
anyway...
what I do is Music composition so , I was planning to use Reason, FL studio, Samplitude
Pro Tools, Amplitube, well you get the idea.

so, Should I buy it? or not?

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2013, November 19 - 7:06am

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hell yes. you could spend the same again on an Apple aluminium keyboard (very, very slim), plug it in and never use the MacBook keyboard. The Alu keyboard is slim enough and light enough to be portable too.

2013, November 19 - 7:24am

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The keys that don't work would be a small concern for me. Have you checked the display for defects? If no hardware issues other than KB and as the price for this is really good, I'd say yes and also look for a replacement keyboard for it - and still be winning.

I think this will do what you want from a computer for some time to come.

2013, November 19 - 8:05am

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Check for play in the display, i had two white macbooks recently for check and both had play. I better explain in spanish checa que la pantalla no tenga juego o se sienta suelta, una de las dos que revisé tenía cuarteaduras cerca de las bisagras, pero del lado de la base, no de la pantalla. Parece ser que desarrollan el mismo defecto que las macbook air de 1a y 2a generación. Fuera de eso jalan rapidísimo.
Lo del teclado yo empezaría por echarle un poco de aire comprimido, una de mis macbooks pro comprada de segunda mano tenia como basuritas en el teclado y varias teclas no funcionaban como las flechitas la espaciadora y la de ctrl. Con aire se compusieron todas menos la ctrl que a veces hace contacto y a veces no. No importa mucho porque puedes reasignar la tecla desde las preferencias. Lo último sería: creo, que las macbooks (no las pro) no tienen ranura para tarjeta SD, no se si esto tenga relevancia para la elección o no.

2013, November 19 - 10:21am

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Thanks! to all who answered...
done, I´m gonna go for it,
I already have an older Apple white keyboard with the 2 usb ports in the back
so I was thinking on using that when i checked the bad keys,
and I don´t really care for the lack of SD ports, nor I care for games though I have been collecting really good software for a machine like this, but as I said, I want this Mac to be my main Music Studio, guitar Fx and personal stuff and leave my VAIO for Internet browsing, games and emulation,
just too bad there´s no Applewin for Macs, (I use Appleworks and other software within PROSEL SYSTEMS alot)
thanks for the key reassign tip, I didn´t know you could do that so that´s a big plus, and the screen is fine (No tiene juego) except for minor shell cracks on the edges of the keyboard sides.

2013, November 19 - 1:01pm

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I bought a used BlackBook 4 years ago and it's still rocking along fine. It's the 2 GHz model so yours is probably a model up. It can handle audio just fine. I did a couple of tracks with friends in Garageband using the bundled instruments, loops and recorded tracks.

I think the main thing to watch for is the battery. A replacement keyboard can be bought relatively cheaply but the batteries for these are still $130 from Apple. But for $90 I think it's a good deal!

2013, November 19 - 4:36pm

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One can always look:

I do agree that USD 90 is a bargain.

2013, November 21 - 5:58pm

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Thank you!,
As a matter of fact, I´m gonna pick it up today.

2013, November 21 - 11:52pm

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i agree its a huge bargain for what u can do with it providing u have a good healthy disk especially .. upgrade it with a basic SSD refurb 64gb for cheap and use external drives to hold ur data + keep only programs on it and itll do u well providing theres nothing else on it. hell im about to buy a quicksilver g4 for 50$ GO FOR IT!