As the title states, I have a unibody 2008 macbook. I bought it back in 2009. Paid 999 for it. It was my first Mac and my second apple product. The first being my 3GS. I instantly fell In love with the Mac ecosystem. I vowed to never buy a PC again. I now have an Apple TV, airport express and extreme, and ipad min retina. Throughout the years I upgraded my loyal machine. First to 4gbs of Ram, then swapping out the hard drive with an ssd, and finally swapping out the cd/DVD optical bay with the original hard drive giving me a total of 500gbs hard drive space total. About two years ago soda spilled on some of the keys, I did my best to clean it out and using it was bearable. I would have to press harder than normal on some keys but nothing that created a sense of urgency for me to go out and buy a new laptop right away. From time to time I checked the trade in value and of course as more time passed the less it was. Yesterday while on my way home i was checking my email and saw cnet deals. Best buy is offering an additional $150 off of MacBooks an iMacs if you have an .edu student email address. The airs are on sale for $100 less than normal bringing the total discount to $250 off. Bringing the 11.6 down to $650. With my trade in credit of my current Mac as well as a samsung tablet I only end up paying $350 out of pocket for a brand new 11.6 MBA which is something I couldn't turn down. I'm going to sell the macbook and tablet on gazelle because it gave me more money than what best buy offered.
I went to my closet to get the box of my first macbook to ship it out and it tugged at my heart strings that I'm finally letting go after almost five years. I almost don't want to let go....
However I am loving the Portability of the MBA and it Definitely is snappy. I also go to school part time so I'm looking forward to being able to take it with me to class and not have added weight. I purchased the 128gb model, I have an external 2tb hard drive connected to my network via export extreme and I have drop box pro so for now it'll do, but I'll definitely upgrade the ssd and maybe even the ram later on so that I won't have to worry about being connected to the network. I'm looking forward to another five years of loyal usage from this bad boy! Thanks for reading!
I went to my closet to get the box of my first macbook to ship it out and it tugged at my heart strings that I'm finally letting go after almost five years. I almost don't want to let go....
However I am loving the Portability of the MBA and it Definitely is snappy. I also go to school part time so I'm looking forward to being able to take it with me to class and not have added weight. I purchased the 128gb model, I have an external 2tb hard drive connected to my network via export extreme and I have drop box pro so for now it'll do, but I'll definitely upgrade the ssd and maybe even the ram later on so that I won't have to worry about being connected to the network. I'm looking forward to another five years of loyal usage from this bad boy! Thanks for reading!