hope this is not something people have been asking about for the past few days.
i did a search and nothing came up

anyway

a couple of days ago, a saw an advertisment from MACHINE and they were offering macbookpro for RM 8000++ (i have forgotten the actual figure. i think it's RM 8600++) and giving 3GB RAM instead of the usual 2GB.

is it some mistake? or it is indeed real?
why the lower price and 1GB extra?

thanks alot guys for answering my question. appreciate it

This post has been edited by ifer: Jul 10 2007, 10:22 PM

It's right on their website first page:

http://www.machines.com.my/index.php

editted...

ops... i'm 1 min late replied... hahah... sorry for tat...

This post has been edited by jensen_tidus: Jul 10 2007, 12:56 AM

oh thanks for the swift replies.

my second question...
why the better deal from machine? compare to the other macintosh?

Maybe they have many exceeded stock for the old models.
The actual reason you have to ask them, this is not official apple malaysia promo, else you should see this nationwide. For the offer, this is not the best, I've been offered even better deal

UGPM wei...

wahahahaa

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Added on July 10, 2007, 11:41 pmsome people told me to go for the newer macbookpro 2.2Ghz 2GB spec and max out the RAM to 4GB instead of going for this 2.33Ghz 3GB spec that machine is offering.

what you sifus say?

This post has been edited by ifer: Jul 10 2007, 11:41 PM

go for the newer systems,the LED screens will blow you away

Looks like the advertisement is a plan for Machines to clear their old stock. Wait for the newer Santa Rosa based Macbook pros!

You really can get this information from Google. A bit of effort on your part will go a long way... But, for the sake of enlightenment and since I have the urge to type (having just bought a bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo for the MBP at work) here goes:

Get the new models. Specifically the 2.2 Ghz one.

Why? Let me ennumerate the differences:

1. Santa Rosa. This is the new motherboard chipset from Intel and the new MBPs are among the first laptops to support them. It has a new, faster memory architecture which allows for faster transfer of data and consequently a faster machine beyond that which is obvious from clockspeeds.

2. The new chipset also allows for a maximum of 4Gb RAM. RAM is also extremely cheap at the moment. I got a couple of 2GB sticks for USD198. Shipping of course is extra. Even without upgrading; the new MBPs come with 2GB base.

3. The LED backlit displays provide for brighter and more importantly more even saturation of colors. Put two MBP displays side by side and the newer LED displays are immediately obvious in clarity. You will however need to tweak the ColorSync profile ( A Gamma of 2.2 is essential). The displays are also supposed to stay brighter for a longer time as opposed to the brightness degradation seen in CCFL displays.

4. WiF "N" aka Airport Extreme enabled out-of-the-box.

5. Larger built in harddrive (I've since upgraded to a Western Digital Scorpio 250Gb internal) with my original drive in a OWC Mercury FW800/400/USB2 external case. Schweeet.

6. Do you really need six reasons? Of course you do.... The Graphics circuitry in the new MBP moves up to the Mobility Radeon 8600M GT from the ageing ATi X1600. The nVidia chipset is the best-in-class as far as laptop GPUs go. The 2.2 Ghz MBP sports 128Mb versus 256Mb VRAM in the 2.4 Ghz model. Tests at BareFeats however show the additional 128Mb VRAM don't increase performance beyond that which is explained by the 0.2 Ghz clockspeed of the CPU.

This post has been edited by MacDaNife: Jul 12 2007, 10:19 PM

maybe they want to clear their stock ...and waiting for new MBP ( with Nvidia graphic card)

thanks for all the replies... especially MacDaNife. i tried googling but all it comes out was geek talk which i am totally not good at.

i had made up my mind this morning at 3am to try to get the 2.2Ghz spec of MBP and max out the RAM to 4GB... the 2GB per stick RAM is still a little bit of a killer right now but i am sure the price will drop by the time i need them RAMs.

i won't be so sure the price of ram will drop. Ram is like share market. Other computers stuff surely will drop, but not ram. Ram might rise/drop price. Currently DDR3 just arrive but still not in mainstream yet. By mid next year or 2009, DDR2 ram sure rise, it is just like DDR1 now

hmm... true true... but a stick now cost like rm 380 thereabout... 2 sticks is rm 760. if plus the 2.2Ghx spec, it is more or less like the 2.3Ghz spec 3gb MBP... so it's still ok with me.

the new Santa Rosa MBP is not here yet?

ifer, congrats on ur purchase!

Where you got your hard drive upgraded? Hw much? It voids the warranty rite?

it won't void your warranty. don't worry.

honestly, i've been itching to buy a macbook pro myself, but i'll hold the urge until october, when leopard comes out. no way i'm buying one now, only having to pay extra hundred bucks to upgrade the os later on a laptop with the same specs...or hopefully, some newer model will be announce, like a 12" macbook pro....hoho

If you can afford to wait by all means do so... The newer machine will always be faster/cheaper/better. Thing is; some of us have WORK to get done in the meantime. And time wasted is productivity lost....

I bought my harddrive and memory from www.mcetech.com.my. I could not find the 250Gb 2.5in SATA drives locally. A cruise around LYP yielded comments like "where got so big?". In addition I bought a FW800/400/USB2 enclosure for the 160Gb drive that I swapped out of the MBP from One World Computing.

Should have saved shipping by buying it all from OWC but as they say: shoulda-coulda-woulda...

250GB?
wow! i guess 120GB is enough for me currently... dont keep my works in my computers normally...

oct? leopard? 3 more months... see how things go. a short trip to lowyat today and apple reseller told me that the lower 15 inches MBP spec is OUT OF STOCK worldwide... and i have to wait 3 months for the stock to come it... fated i guess... ahahaa!

will see what machine in MV have to say about this.