retail therapy accomplished

[jazzfish]

A discussion with darkfyre_muse yesterday reminded me to take a closer look at the displays that were being offered. Turns out the only way to get a non-glossy display on a Mac laptop is to spend more money on a larger Pro. And poking at them in the store confirms that the antiglare is o so very much nicer on the eyes. Feh. I was looking forward to a slightly smaller machine but no dice.

So, yay for the Refurbished section of the Apple store, which has provided me with a 15" Macbook Pro that's slightly better than the baseline spec and has an antiglare display, for about what I could have spent on a baseline machine in the store today if they'd had one. (As of early this week $company gets an Apple discount, but it doesn't apply to refurbs.) Which is still more money than I've ever spent on anything that's not a car, by about a factor of four.

Oh well. In theory, and based on what I've heard from just about everyone who has one, assuming I like this computer it'll last me until at least the middle of the next decade.

Now to wait impatiently until the end of next week, and also to see how twitchy buyers' remorse makes me.

Comments

[thanate]

for the record, I got my 15" macbook pro at a moment when they didn't believe in non-glossy screens, and in most of the environments I use it in, I don't find it nearly as irritating as one would expect. (The mall stores are pretty much set up to be the worst kind of environment you're likely to see for that.)

[jazzfish]

It's pretty horrid in the stores, from both a 'glare' and 'smudge magnet' perspective. And, I dunno. I'd rather not have to grit my teeth any more than I'm already going to for the software switch.

[thanate]

I do not mean to imply that I wouldn't prefer non-reflective; I just don't think it's actually as much of a problem as one might expect. (also, yay for being able to find one without)