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    Thanks guys, that's been a great help. I really appreciated the advice.
    What I'm torn between now is buying one from apple, eBay, or I believe apple do 'service built' or something, where they sell ones for a bit cheaper.
    I haven't looked into that yet, am I right in thinking these ones are mac book pros that people have had had problems with and apple have rebuilt them?
    eBay clearly has it's own risks, if I can save a few hundred by getting one on eBay I might do that.

    I was wondering with the hard drive, is that user-replaceable? I was thinking I could get the smallest size drive then buy my own SSD and put that in it's place.

    Any thoughts on all the above are more than welcome

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomflynn View Post
    Thanks guys, that's been a great help. I really appreciated the advice.
    What I'm torn between now is buying one from apple, eBay, or I believe apple do 'service built' or something, where they sell ones for a bit cheaper.
    I haven't looked into that yet, am I right in thinking these ones are mac book pros that people have had had problems with and apple have rebuilt them?
    eBay clearly has it's own risks, if I can save a few hundred by getting one on eBay I might do that.

    I was wondering with the hard drive, is that user-replaceable? I was thinking I could get the smallest size drive then buy my own SSD and put that in it's place.

    Any thoughts on all the above are more than welcome
    yup, you can do it yourself. upgraded mine 2 days after buying, same story with ram

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomflynn View Post
    Thanks guys, that's been a great help. I really appreciated the advice.
    What I'm torn between now is buying one from apple, eBay, or I believe apple do 'service built' or something, where they sell ones for a bit cheaper.
    I haven't looked into that yet, am I right in thinking these ones are mac book pros that people have had had problems with and apple have rebuilt them?
    eBay clearly has it's own risks, if I can save a few hundred by getting one on eBay I might do that.

    I was wondering with the hard drive, is that user-replaceable? I was thinking I could get the smallest size drive then buy my own SSD and put that in it's place.

    Any thoughts on all the above are more than welcome
    Dno anything about you of course lol, but if you're at school or in uni then you can get a 15% discount. You also get 3 years' applecare for a LOT less than it normally costs, but if you plan on opening it up and replacing the hard drive then you'll void that anyway
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    I'd check with Apple just in case, but replacing the hard drive and/or upgrading RAM should not void the warranty.
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    Ah ok thanks, I might do that, I just think an SSD would be safer when playing at gigs because of vibrations. Maybe I'm worrying too much over that and a regular drive would be fine.

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    It doesn't void it, but the new ram/hd ain't covered (words from an Apple dude)

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    Ah yes I've heard about these upgrades, apparently the processors are called 'sandy balls' lol so I was told anyway.

    I really could do with one in the next few weeks though so waiting for a few months isn't really an option unfortunately. Thanks for the tip off though.

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