Firewire 400 is irrelevant - just spend a few bucks on a new cable with 800 at one end and 400 at the other.
And Wired had a good post about why the sealed-in battery in the new 17" (with 8 hours charge and supposedly extra long life) is a non- issue, despite epic amounts of whining: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/why-the-17-macb.html Also, the battery can be replaced if it went kaput - just in-store. Which is a hassle, but not worth buying a year old well-used machine for the same price as a new one. Computers drop in value the moment you buy them. You pay a huge premium for buying new. Or at least, you should. Personally, I think second hand Macs sell for way way too much. (and to your other question, i think he said it had the free 1 year service, not the extended applecare) Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 16-Jan-09, at 2:28 AM, avromspam wrote: 3k makes sense since the new one is missing the firewire 400 port + does have a removable battery thus to some people 3 K ends up being so much more worth it all. Big q does the unit have apple care attached to it, if so that makes it even more valuable. > But the new 17" costs $2799 from Apple, so how can he expect to get $3k for it? What > am I missing? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
