I feel like I just won the lottery...

[Kashalots]

Good for you, at least you get about 40% more battery life than similary speced windows machine. Yeah I like mac laptops just because they get much better battery life for daily usage.

 

[nando]

that's pretty fantastic. i would have been static myself.

 

[Sterling]

that's pretty fantastic. i would have been static myself.

Static ruins electronics. Don't be static, be ecstatic.

 

[nando]

Static ruins electronics. Don't be static, be ecstatic.

true that. and stay in school and learn to spell. many lessons to be learned here.

 

[Sterling]

true that. and stay in school and learn to spell. many lessons to be learned here.

Nah, spell check gets most errors. You're fine man, I just like making jokes hehe.

 

[VashTS]

good job you only overpaid slightly less than you should have! j/k good win, i once bought a 1tb hdd opened it up and was 1.5tb SCORE!

 

[Deleted member 329676]

good job you only overpaid slightly less than you should have! j/k good win, i once bought a 1tb hdd opened it up and was 1.5tb SCORE!

That's awesome, it just feels good to get that little win sometimes.

 

[Wisenheimer]

Yeah, something similar happened to me. I bought a Saab 9-5 Sedan for $40,000, but when I went to pick it up, the dealer said that their supplier had screwed up and shipped a Porche 911 instead, so I could have it for the same price. . .

. . . in my dreams. It is always nice to have a company screw up in your favor.

 

[Hedgehogofchaos]

This is actually quite common (in my experience) on the refurbished store. 3/5 products I have purchased there have had some form of an upgrade. My "refurbished" Macbook Pro came in retail packaging (was brand new) and had the top end CPU and GPU available; although I only purchased the base model.

 

[Deleted member 329676]

This is actually quite common (in my experience) on the refurbished store. 3/5 products I have purchased there have had some form of an upgrade. My "refurbished" Macbook Pro came in retail packaging (was brand new) and had the top end CPU and GPU available; although I only purchased the base model.

That's pretty awesome. Yeah, I've been looking more into it, and like you said, it does seem to be a pretty common thing. Either way, Apple refurb is a great deal in my opinion, if you're like me and happen to like Apple products (I know there are many who don't, to each their own).

 

[Chocolina]

If you've never won the lottery then how do you know what it feels like?

 

[Deleted-236924]

If you've never won the lottery then how do you know what it feels like?

Or did he?

 

[Nismax]

Um ok... But it's an Apple product. You still overpaid for a massively dumbed down computer.

 

[Deleted member 329676]

If you've never won the lottery then how do you know what it feels like?

Haha Okay okay, its what I was assuming winning the lottery feels like. Granted, I've never won anything before so I could be a little off the mark haha.

 

[enarky]

Congrats, quite the bargain, indeed. I just bought the same specced 13.3" Retina Macbook Pro with the 256 GB SSD three weeks ago for retail price and I couldn't be happier. Definitely a nice little machine and so much smaller than the 2009 MacBook Pro I used previously.

 

[Deleted member 329676]

I just bought the same specced 13.3" Retina Macbook Pro with the 256 GB SSD three weeks ago for retail price and I couldn't be happier. Definitely a nice little machine and so much smaller than the 2009 MacBook Pro I used previously.

I'm kind of wishing I'd gone for the bigger internal SSD (I only have a 128GB), but I have plenty of externals so it's not a huge deal. I love how small these new MacBook Pros are too! Comparing it to my parents' Macbook Airs, its really not that much bigger, even smaller by some dimensions.

 

[McHaggis]

I'm kind of wishing I'd gone for the bigger internal SSD (I only have a 128GB), but I have plenty of externals so it's not a huge deal. I love how small these new MacBook Pros are too! Comparing it to my parents' Macbook Airs, its really not that much bigger, even smaller by some dimensions.

Aren't those MBPs a proprietary, non-upgradeable SSD, too?

 

[Deleted member 329676]

Aren't those MBPs a proprietary, non-upgradeable SSD, too?

Yeah, everything in the new Macs (besides the Mac Pro) are pretty much non-upgradeable. The SSD and ram are both soldered right onto the motherboard.

 

[McHaggis]

Yeah, everything in the new Macs (besides the Mac Pro) are pretty much non-upgradeable. The SSD and ram are both soldered right onto the motherboard.

That... sucks . At least you have plenty of external space. If it were me, I'd put everything of low importance on my NAS so that I can access it from anywhere if I end up needing it. Although, upgrades aren't as important as they used to be. With 16 GB of RAM, it may as well be soldered because you won't ever need more during the life of your MacBook Pro. If the SSD was double that size, that would probably be enough for moderate use, too.

 

[loco365]

Well, grats to you for scamming (but not) Apple. (It's not like they're losing anything - their products are overpriced IMO, and they make enough money on one sale.) I'd be happy in the same situation myself.