About Refurbished Mac Laptops

Video Transcript

"Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert here, and we're talking about refurbished Mac laptops. Well, let me tell you a few of the kinds that you might find out there first. You've got your MacBook Pro, like this guy over here. Your standard MacBook, like this guy over here. And your MacBook Air. Now, some of the older ones like the G4 and the G3, you might find out there. Your best bet on a refurbished Mac laptop obviously is to go with the latest model. So the Air, who came out early in 2008, if you see that refurbished, then you know obviously you've got a...you've got a modern unit. They are constantly updating their...subtle, subtle updates to their laptops throughout their production years and its production run, so you want to be very careful of what model you're actually looking at. If you're getting an official refurbished Mac from Mac itself, which is by far your best way to go, you're basically getting...you're basically getting a new unit. That sounds bizarre, but a lot of times, people will return things and they end up for complete refurbishing and being checked out when there ultimately wasn't a lot wrong with it, i.e. user error -- they're some basic things. When you make an investment like this, and kind of in the marketing plan is is that if you buy something, and the least little thing...you spend a couple grand on it. And the least little thing goes wrong with it, you want to bring it back and you want a new unit. With computers, we don't like to take something out of the box, find it not working exactly how we thought it should, and then go, "Oh, well, I fixed it. Go try it again." You know, no. Get me a new unit. This one's obviously broken. But most of the time, it's not, so they send it back. It's freshened up, it's gone through, it's checked. If there was anything truly wrong with it hardware-wise, it was replaced and put out at an incredible discount. I mean, I've seen things go up for refurbish within weeks of them being released, and there is a significant savings. So if you're thinking about saving a few bucks, again, Mac laptops, they...the good news is or the bad news, depending on it, they hold their value. So you're not going to find them for pennies on the dollar, but you'll find them at a significant discount. You get it out of the box, you really have no idea that you've got a used or refurbished unit. It's a good deal. Highly recommend it. Get it from a reputable source. Go right through Mac. I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert, saying, "Have Mac refurbished. Will travel.""