[X4U] Current MacBook Pro lineup?

[Ken Johnson]

My recomendadtion is to get either the newest, or at most one  
generation back for your use. In fact, I'd get it with the new 24-in  
display to use when you're in the office.

Ken

On Jun 19, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Joe Sporleder <joe at wacondatrader.com>  
wrote:

> My current laptop is a 15" MacBook Pro Core Duo that I bought  
> refurbished a couple of years ago from Apple.com. I'm the tech  
> manager for a small Kansas publishing co, and I've been slowly  
> replacing our old PowerMacs with Intel Macs that support at least  
> 4GB of RAM through a mixture of Intel Mac minis and iMacs, to  
> prepare for deployment of Snow Leopard sometime early next year. I'm  
> looking to upgrade my laptop to meet my new minimum requirements, as  
> my current Book only goes to 2GB of RAM, and has a measly 100GB HD,  
> which now that we are using Youtube and other video to supplement  
> our website editorial offerings, 100GB is puny.
>
> I've had a regular MacBook before, so don't mind the glossy screen,  
> because when I need to process photos for production, I'm at the  
> main office using extended desktop on a nice, bug external monitor  
> with a matte finish. However, I'm not sure if I can go back to a 13"  
> display, now that I've used a 15" one for a couple of years. There's  
> been some refurbished last generation 15" MacBook Pros in the $1400- 
> $1500 range at the Online Apple Store that support at least 4GB of  
> RAM, and have 250-320GB HDs, or would it be worthwhile to spend an  
> extra 200-300 or so for the just released ones? Most of our digital  
> cameras are lower end Olympus that use the xD picture card, so i  
> don't have much that would utilize the SD card slot on the new ones.
>
> Joe
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