MaxMike93

I ordered my friend a ThinkPad Yoga 15 like two months ago and he's been really happy with it and I thought it was good for the price when it was ordered, which would have left room for upgrading.

Price: $900 before tax
Core i7 Mobile CPU
8GB RAM
NVIDIA Discrete Graphics
256GB SSD
1080p Touch Screen
Has the Yoga hinge for laptop/tent/presentation/tablet modes

If I wanted something with Windows 10 I'd consider it, but my 2011 MacBook Pro handles what I need with 8GB RAM and an SSD. I'm also invested in the Apple ecosystem with that, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, etc. so I like having a Mac for personal use. Did like my ThinkPad W too, but the Yoga is thinner and lighter for a Lenovo laptop.

Sarlacc

+100 on apple refurb

In many ways the refurbs go through more checking and testing than new from the factory. My current workhorse is a 15" MBP Retina mid-2012 that I bought as a refurb. Its been great.

2012wagon

Thanks guys

Hp envy all packed up for return

THen stop at Apple Store at lunch

stogie1020

FYI, I have a 13"MBP with OSX and W10 on it. 500GB hdd split into to equal partitions for each OS via Bootcamp. Best of both worlds.

Whiskers

yep

2012wagon

Stogie

You sound way more computer saavy then me

My college room mate use to build his own computer back in the day with water cooling and all these gizmos

Sadly I learned none of that stuff

2012wagon

Anybody have any thoughts on these?

Refurbished 21.5-inch iMac 1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 - Apple


http://www.apple.com/shop/product/FE...-Intel-Core-i5


Some have 1tb fusion drive. Some just say 1tb hard drive

2012wagon

Update , bought it


iMac retina
Was going for 27
But was too huge
Went with 21
New

Whiskers

they are good.

Whiskers

Welcome to the light side.

2012wagon

The box is huge

Out with old
In with new

They are processing returns still
Was $150 cheaper than Apple Store

2012wagon

Box

3.1GHz Processor
1TB Storage

2012wagon

They also wouldn't return my money for ms office

So they exchanged it for Apple ms office

stogie1020

Whatever you do, just don't get a 21" iMac...













KIDDING!




Nice pickup, if you need anything, just ask Whiskers. We all do...

Whiskers

I run admin a bunch of Apple related FB pages if anyone cares...

2012wagon

Gracias

cu2wagon

Don't you mean a bushel of Apple related pages?

stogie1020

Whiskers is apple to the core.

2012wagon

Just got home
Time to open it and get it ready

2012wagon

Is bottom of screen supposed to be like this on retina setup ?

2012wagon

also with a "roller button" how do i scroll down a web page?

2012wagon

figured out roller

seems like i can graze the mouse top with my finger

it took al my favorites on my phone and loaded it here..AWESOME

however screen seems to big to move mouse pointer from side to side

2012wagon

Ugh

Looks like backlight bleeding

Need to return comp?

Really wish I could have no probs with a computer

AZuser

Looks like backlight bleed. If it bothers you, you can exchange it.

Try adjusting mouse tracking speed in system preferences. This tutorial might help too with using mouse and doing gestures.

Whiskers

Doesn't look bad. Google PRAM reset and do that. Also do all the updates in the App Store.

2012wagon

thank you
i read about it now and it seems some people who returned it had the same issue

DEFINITELY bothers me BIG time

ugh hate to lug this thing back again

thanks

i will do the tutorial today
should be very helpful

anything else you recommend for first time mac user?

2012wagon

just did the PRAM reset

I would say its 30% better but still bleeding on the bottom

If I exchange at the store can i ask them to open box there and show no bleeding?

Whiskers

Absolutely.

2012wagon

thanks

i will take it back tomorrow

now wife wants to claim the desktop for her photo editing

cu2wagon

Sounds like your small task is about to get a hell of a lot more expensive!

2012wagon

ugh life sux and comp gods hate me

2012wagon

New iMac has been returned

Best buy won't have new iMac retina in 21 inch for 9 more days

Whiskers

Apple stores will match the price.

2012wagon

Yeah thinking of going to Apple Store after work

2012wagon

So back to square one

Will be ordering a 21 iMac retina through the discount

When you order there are free keyboard options . Does that mean those are the bigger keyboards that are corded ?

When i was at bestbuy corded keyboard full size was $49

When I brought the magic board home it wasn't too small

Is 1tb fusion hd worth $100 over regular 1tb hd?

Any other specs you would recommend ?

Sarlacc

I dont think they sell anything corded with ordered machines anymore unless you request it.

AZuser

Here's what Apple has to say about the Fusion drive. I think it's worth it, but I also like having my computer fast and snappy. The standard 5,400 rpm hard drive will be a bottleneck.

If you can afford it, Flash storage would be best.

MaxMike93

If you can afford to go SSD, even with a 1TB Fusion Drive, I'd do it. Although 24GB doesn't sound like much, the near instant load time at startup and for apps is awesome. And then you still have another terabyte for whatever else you keep on your computer. I have my MacBook Pro set up with a 128GB SSD for OS X and applications, and Windows. Then I took out my optical drive and put in the 750GB HDD that came with it for high-capacity internal storage. There can be a very slight delay if I play a song way down in my iTunes library or if I'm seeking files like in my downloads folder, but it's normally unnoticeable and I'm fine with it.

This is based on something I learned from my storage certification.
A lot of enterprise storage arrays (at least EMC arrays since that is what I worked on) use what is called FAST: Fully Automated Storage Tiering. What that is, is that it evaluates what types of storage you have (in enterprise it is usually Flash, SAS, and Near-Line SAS, from fastest to slowest, respectfully) and automatically places data in the different types of storage where it most makes sense, i.e. what you use most often stays on the fast, flash storage (like your OS) but then stuff that can take up a lot of space like documents, photos, and media files that can afford to have a slight lag are moved to the slower, mechanical storage device since a second or two lag to open a single file is normally less of an impact than delay to load the OS on boot or opening applications. It helps to optimize the use of solid-state storage since the price per gigabyte is still relatively high when compared to mechanical, platter hard disks. So, in a way, Apple's Fusion Drive in the iMac is very similar to what FAST does in enterprise storage deployments.

2012wagon

Thank you guys

I will go with the fusion drive

I need more than the 512 gb space available on flash