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Anyone else selling their laptop?

Will you be selling your laptop?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 35 18.8%

  • No I still use it.

    Votes: 128 68.8%

  • Not sure yet.

    Votes: 23 12.4%
  • Total voters
    186
Probably?

I have an original Air that I have not used since I got my iPad. I might sell it on ebay or CL to pay for a set of new iPhones when they come out.
 
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Nope! Just use it a whole lot less these days!
 
Sold my CE MacBook for $ 900 because the screen wasn't the best like the new MacBook pro. Purchase the iPad and the rest of the money left will go towards a refurbish iMac :)
 
The iPad suits most of my travel needs, and our desktop is plenty for heavy lifting. The reason I need to keep my MBP is because for 6 weeks of the year I travel back home to the USA with my family, and we can't go Mac-less for 6 weeks. The primarily reason is because of we take advantage of fast broadband downloading media for the upcoming 46 weeks on 512kbps.

If it wasn't for that 6 week period, I would totally sell it and buy 2-3 iPads (young family) instead.

Still tempted to downgrade to a white plastic UB MacBook and use the downgrade balance on a second iPad.
 
I'm getting pretty close to swapping my entire system structure. Will probably sell a MacBook, mini, and monitor and replace them all with an iMac.
 
No, because the hubby has been waiting patiently to inhert by MacBook (4-5 years now??).

Originally, the plan was to get another laptop...a MacBook pro. However, I cannot use my personal computer at work currently, so that leaves me barely using my MacBook as it is. I purchased an iPad as a go between my work computer and my MacBook pro. Pretty much as my own, ultra portable slice of Apple and the software that I have become accustomed to that is Apple exclusive. I still want to get a MacBook Pro in the future when my laptop goes...but perhaps I might consider a desktop or Mac Mini now. There are certain things that I need a "home base" system for but portability is probably less of an issue now once the iPad arrives.
 
I plan to sell my netbook, but not my MacBook. It will get replaced by a MacBook pro or MacBook air refresh some time in the coming year.

There are quite a few things that the netbook does better than an iPad, including file management, openoffice.org, gimp and more. But I'm more inclined to carry my iPad when I travel than my netbook. I expect iPad shortcomings to be addressed in OS4 and more later. The iPad is a netbook replacement but not a MacBook replacement... Yet. I do remember reading that iPad is outselling all Macs combined. As iPad gets better, sales can only improve.

But to return to the OT, no not a MacBook replacement just yet. But wait a bit longer...
 
r0k said:
I plan to sell my netbook, but not my MacBook. It will get replaced by a MacBook pro or MacBook air refresh some time in the coming year.

There are quite a few things that the netbook does better than an iPad, including file management, openoffice.org, gimp and more. But I'm more inclined to carry my iPad when I travel than my netbook. I expect iPad shortcomings to be addressed in OS4 and more later. The iPad is a netbook replacement but not a MacBook replacement... Yet. I do remember reading that iPad is outselling all Macs combined. As iPad gets better, sales can only improve.

But to return to the OT, no not a MacBook replacement just yet. But wait a bit longer...
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so far I have not missed it at all using just the iPad, I am really surprised by this.
 
I have a desktop, a netbook, and an iPad and I can't see going without one of them. There are just some things that my iPad can't do that I can do with my netbook so there is just no way I could sell it.
 
I have a sub-notebook it's -- more powerful than a netbook but less than 13" laptops. I don't plan on getting rid of it but since I got the iPad, I've used it a lot less. Granted the iPad was twice the price of the sub-notebook, I didn't really use it more for stuff other than couch surfing. It still has its uses but the iPad could be truly amazing with just a few more tweaks and software updates.
 
I always realize that the iPad cannot replace my MacBook pro. It's absolutely not. However, I rarely use my MBP since I have the iPad.:p
 
phobic99 said:
I have a sub-notebook it's -- more powerful than a netbook but less than 13" laptops. I don't plan on getting rid of it but since I got the iPad, I've used it a lot less. Granted the iPad was twice the price of the sub-notebook, I didn't really use it more for stuff other than couch surfing. It still has its uses but the iPad could be truly amazing with just a few more tweaks and software updates.
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This is true. If the iPad had HDMI output, 2 fully functional usb ports, 1 fully functional sd card reader and supported flash I could sell my netbook. I would still need to keep my desktop though.

If apple were to add these things I would probably get rid of my netbook and get a mac mini. As it is now the iPad is the only apple product that I have.
 
MacBook is gone but I still have my Core Duo iMac. It occurred to me a few weekends ago that my iMac is about 4 years old and I'm totally happy with it. It's a solid machine and I've experienced zero issues with it.
 
Already sold

I already sold my mbp. I originally bought it in 2008 as my sole machine but evenntuslly picked up a mini as I don't need any hard core power for what I do (light Photoshop work and DVD burning) so I sold it a week after getting the iPad. No regrets so far. I take the iPad everywhere, whereas I only took my mbp out of the house if I absolutley felt like I needed it.
 
I'm going to replace my Windows 7 notebook with an iPad when the next iMac refresh happens. Every time I'm near an Apple store, I give the iPads a go and am more impressed each time. An iPad and iMac seem like the best combination for my use.
 
My macbook pro is my only mac so I plan on keeping it. I use my ipad a lot but I still use my macbook as well. They both serve me well!
 
Yes, I sold mine to finance my iPad. I have a 24" iMac that I bought last Fall. I was on the fence about having a MB and an iMac, but when I heard about the iPad I put my MB up for sale. Got a nice chunk of change from ebay for it. Ended up netting about 200 more than the iPad costs.

I bought it on May 4th, still love it. I am however having some of the reported wi-fi problems and I missed my Genius appt. last week due to some unforeseen work related things.

I went from dropping wi-fi connection about 10 times an hour to being prompted for the wi-fi password 10 times an hour.

I think it has to do with my FiOs router, but there are 20 or so devices hooked up to it that I'd have to redo if I reset the settings, so I guess I'll deal with it for now.
 
Prob shouldn't answer as still waiting on my ipad - but I wouldnt get rid of my macbook pro - NO WAY.

HOWEVER when it is time to upgrade the MCP in the future I may change to an imac with a lovely big screen!
 
I had a 13" Macbook Pro, I wasn't really using it much.

Since forever I've always wanted a machine I could and would take everywhere with me. My MBP had too large of a footprint so I didn't bring it all the time, and the couple of netbooks I've had didn't offer good enough battery life, so I never had a machine like that until my iPad. I take my iPad everywhere.

As I said above, I had a 13" MBP but never really used it because I didn't like lugging it around everywhere, I actually sold it so I could pick up my iPad and have some extra cash lying around.

There has been 1 time since I ditched the MBP that I missed it, I wanted to do some light video editing when I was visiting my grandparents a few hours away and couldn't, but other than that I haven't missed it at all.

I am considering getting another notebook for those moments when I might need to do some serious work, I think I'll probably pick up a used non-unibody MBP one of these days.
 
I have a MacBook... I basically never use it other than for the occasional guest to use... so we'll see.
 
I have two Windows based laptops and I think one of them is doomed to be sold in favor of an ipad. One day I dream of ditching my desktop and limiting myself to a laptop, an ipad, and an iphone.
 
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