| rocketpig said: Right now it'd be hard for me to pass up a refurbed iPad 2 for $349. While the iPad 3 is nice, $150 is nicer. And the nice thing about Apple refurbs is that they come with the identical warranty as a new machine. |
Yeah, if you don't need/want to buy the latest on release week when Apple does their product updates, Apple Refurbs are a solid deal. Once an Apple product has been out for more than a season, it's almost kind of stupid NOT to check and see if Apple doesn't have a refurb version of the product you are looking at on Apple.com.
I went with the refurb route in 2009 when I needed to replace an old workhorse Powerbook G4 that finally gave up the ghost and saved a bundle. The best part was when I sold it back to an Apple reseller almost two years later, it was for only $400 less than what I originally paid for it. Other than the box (brown box, no retail packaging) it was just like new.
Ended up paying way too much for the custom i7 replacement MBP, but I wanted a laptop that could comfortably run Maya and it fit the bill perfectly.
