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I know, I'm really tempted by the MBP until I look at what it'd cost for what I'd really want. Then I realize I have the powerhouse lappy already taken care of so I might as well fill a different "need" with the regular macbook. And I enjoyed the powerbook and really don't need to replace it. It just occurred to me that given the ridiculous resale value coupled with the rather large education discounts available right now that I might actually be able to sell it and move up to a 5yr newer, way more powerful model for a few hundred bucks. I'm going to stretch that just slightly to get the 2.4GHz, 2GB whitebook (ugh) and really that's enough for now. If in 3 years or so I've really liked having the macbook I can see moving to a MBP. [edit]and it appears that any education purchase qualifies for the free ipod, not just the college folks. I'm going to call tonight to verify that and if so will be ordering a new MB instead of a refurb tomorrow.

It's a second, non essential laptop. Hard to justify over spending on it only to get something that wouldn't be as powerful as my current 15" lappy. And actually, I think it'll be nice to have one lappy that's more portable. The idea that I'm buying one at all is pretty excessive.

Yeah, I just don't have another $350 to throw at this.

Dang, how'd we miss this earlier!?!? Happy Birthday Indra, I can't wait to pick up the picture tomorrow!

I'll give myself tonight to agonize over it while I'll wipe the HD on the Powerbook and reinstall OS-X. My only real concern with the regular macbook is the shared video ram aspect. Although given what I think this lappy with be used for it's probably not an issue.

Wuhoo! I've been paid for the Powerbook, time for final waffling on which macbook config to get. The only thing really killing me is the refurb 2.2GHz MBP for $1449...

Yeah, I'm psyched but waffling between buying new or refurb. With the education discount the price difference is very small. And I can't decide whether or not to tell half-truth and get the free 8gb Touch.

As soon as I get paypal'ed for the Powerbook I'll order the Macbook. Should be tomorrow.

Is this honestly something worth worrying about or waiting for?

What does it matter what I like? Do you know enough about me to know whether or not that will translate into something that you like? See the root of the problem is that in the end it only really matters what you like. It's not so much that it's vague, only that you're headed in the wrong direction and I'm trying to steer you back.

Given the wide open and extremely vague nature of your question I stand by my analysis. And there wasn't any hostility, granted I didn't give you a warm welcome but I just stated a disappointed observation. So here we go again - every time one of these threads gets started we fire back the same questions. What have you heard before that you liked? What about it did you like? What genre of music do you prefer? What's your budget? etc. etc. etc. etc...

Ehhh, can't really. It's $300 to $500 more than I really want to spend on this which makes no sense since I already have a really nice 15" laptop (Sager). What really pisses me off is that they jack the price of the black Macbook for no good reason. The HD upgrade only accounts for $90 of the $200+ difference.

Woot! Happy Birthday Todd!

I agree here, they're what I use in my soldering rig and sound surprisingly good near field.

I'm betting you didn't read a single thread here before posting this...

Vincent, I think there are at least a couple of 6CG7s that people prefer to the EH's, my memory says RCA clear top is one of them. But I'd wait for the Staxies to weigh in on what works best.

Eh, I've got a Al notebook (powerbook) right now and also a plastic cased lappy, can't say the aluminum is a huge draw for me. Also, I'm not really sure that the refurbs will drop all that much. Apple seems to do a very good job with inventory management and they discounts are pretty deep already (~30%). In fact, I just looked and there's little motivation for me to get a refurb. My wife is a high school guidance counselor so I qualify for the education discount so I might as well get a free Ipod while I'm at it and give it to my sister who was nice enough to give me the Powerbook I have now.

I'm with salty, I used openoffice for PC for a while and it was pretty crappy.

Ok, so it looks like I'll probably be picking up a MacBook shortly. I must admit that I'm torn between waiting 2+ months to see/I] if they do indeed update the line bust honestly, since I'm probably aiming for the bottom of the line the improvements won't matter all that much to me. Am I crazy?

Add to that list - finished populating SSMH prototype and successfully tested it. Also, modified a d-sub hood for another Duet cable.

Built the final set of immoderator cables, installed a M6x1.0 locknut in an amp to tame a wandering trafo and now I'm chilling with the Menace.

It's all on loan from HR for his meet this weekend.

Oh hell no, I'm perfectly content with the level of interest (none) there is in my cables.

I'm sorry, but my services are useless for cutting things in half unless it can be done with a series of round holes.

So tempted to buy it for my office rig...