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I purchased this myself online from the sony (us) education store. at the time of purchase these laptops cost about 180k - 200k (upgraded from the base spec) back home
this laptop has been nothing short of amazing..battery life is awesome , keypads are a joy to type on, screen is bright and beautiful; upgraded to the (1600x900)option during purchase.

This is some serious eye candy and packs decent power with those looks

This 14inch laptop comes with the ff specification

Intel Core i7-3632QM quad core processor up to 3.20Hz with turbo boost
750 GB (7200rpm) HDD
8GB DDR3- 1600MHz
Intel HD Graphics 4000

as mentioned earlier, this an upgraded unit (during purchase) , the base options come with lower specs.

BUT NOW , THE HINGES ARE BROKEN AND THE SCREEN IS SEMI-DETACHED FROM THE LOWER PART
EVERY THING ON THIS NOTEBOOK IS STILL 100% FUNCTIONAL. AND WILL MOST PROBABLY BE BEST SUITED FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BUY THEM FOR THE PARTS..

please see pics here..

https://www.nairaland.com/2003973/give-away..the-beautiful-beautiful-beautifuuuuuull

i put it up for sale few months back, bt i took it off cos I had to continue using it. when my macbook pro was delayed.

-The Optical Drive (DVD burner) still works excellently. haven't used it up to 10 times since purchase, been primarily used for occasional software installation.
-Battery is great, still up to 4hrs juice time
-Storage is a 750GB 7200rpm HDD
- RAM, 8GB DDR3 -1600 MHz
-Intel HD 4000 Graphics

I'm presently operating within the Mac Ecosystem so i no longer have a need for this computer.

serious buyers only, 07032339549

Asking Price N40k

NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE !! BUT PROBABLY JUST FOR PARTS. THE HINGES FINALL BROKE
SPECS ARE...
Intel Core i7-3632QM quad core processor up to 3.20Hz with turbo boost
750 GB (7200rpm) HDD
8GB DDR3- 1600MHz
Intel HD Graphics 4000

SELLING FOR 40K

don't get me wrong, 'm inferring that as a probable reason for those "limitations" your friend kept experiencing

LordReed:
Did I mention that they were?

Macbook airs are not really performance notebooks, they're more suited for people with relatively light computing needs

LordReed:
Apple products are priced the way they are because Apple has successfully sold the image of creating standout premium products even though the differentiation is not much. Factually though the image is backed by a good product experience all round however I would say in general terms you can get more bang for your buck if you take a similarly priced Windows laptop over a MacBook especially if you want to play games and you are in Nigeria.

Apple products thrive on being able to access the Apple ecosystem which includes their customer service. In Nigeria you are kind of isolated from the full Apple experience and while you certainly can enjoy your product know that people using Windows machines will do more than you with a MacBook. Typical example in my office a colleague of mine wanted to hook up his MacBook to our office printer, he couldn't because the driver installation process was not accessible. Another time we tried to access a webpage we were hosting on a local server but we couldn't on the MacBook meanwhile all the windows machines were accessing the same page. I am sure these are not major problems but if you encounter such limitations on a daily basis it can become frustrating. One other colleague said she regrets buying MacBook Air because of the limitations she keeps getting. Three other colleagues are happy with their macbooks though so it does depend.

If you are in Nigeria and you want to game on your mobile machine I won't advice getting a Mac. If productivity is all you'd need it for and mind you be ready for some sacrifices, by all means MacBooks are a great way to spend your money.

everybody with an opposing view is a fanboy to fulaman198

moonraker:
If you knew my background, you wouldnt have written most of what you wrote up there...

Fanboyish?? are u kidding me?? WHat do i have to gain from being a fanboy??

Ask any seasoned windows IT guy who owns the best trackpads in the business and listen carefully for their response. The fact that you know

nothing about that, doesnt mean that i made shit up.

Your IPS display and the retina display are in the same category. It all boils down to software tweaking. ie calibration.

You ask me if i have experienced dealing with CS of windows manufacturers?? do i sound like a kid to you or something??

So i work in IT, i have opportunities to deal with these so call manufacturers. Name it, acer, HP, Fujitsu, Lenovo etc

The only one of those guys that comes close to Apples CS, is Lenovo....

I rest my case... Like you said, to each to his opinion...

you're such a stupid fvck, have you ever heard of a president missing his speaking slot at such an important meeting as did jonathn??
jonathan over the years has continued to be a national embarrassment on various occasions.
The PDP's continued horseshit is a testament to their overly desperate desire to continue to appropriate our money and resources to feed their gluttonous selfish greed

cytellProperty:
Shameless Agbero Progressives Congress, see as how their leader they loiter around downing street like Agbero.

You have only provided proof of lack of attention to detail, are my assertions wrong or right? or did i open a new website ?

Fulaman198:
I have provided proof, you have been providing fake links in regards to Lenovo just to fake a point. Nice try though.

with 32gb ram and 16gb ram, both configs cost over $3000
Tell ma again how expensive macbook pros are

selected upgrades are
512SSD
max processor
max display quality
Nvidia quadro k2100m 2G graphics

and look at the ridiculous price point

the site obviously has challenges updating the added specs.
expand each category and manually add the extra cost of the upgrdes to the base cost and see what figures you arrive at

Fulaman198:
Ok I don't see the issue, I'm using 16gb of RAM.

my earlier config was 16gb as well,
i said use the config i selected and tell me what figures you run.
the max spec for the lenovo is over $3,000

Fulaman198:
What specs are being toned down. The Macbook Pro 15" does not come with 32gb of RAM so I didn't configure it with such.

and i no longer hear you making noise about no macbook in the world can compete with your tuna can, is that a fake point too??

you talk too much, i said what fake links ? simple. so i cloned lenovo's website in seconds to make a fake point . you see say u no get talk?
proof of what did you provide exactly ? u tone down on specs and call that proof ? match up the spec i did and lets see how the figures run

Fulaman198:
I have provided proof, you have been providing fake links in regards to Lenovo just to fake a point. Nice try though.

are you refering to the non touch version ?

JustCalMeDBoss:
Go proce on their website

typically speaking of what W541? the type that can compete with a 2015 macbook pro , or the type that is convenient for your argument ?? you were all hot about huge specs now you're trimming down
you made a very clear statement..."no macbook can compete with my lenovo " a better config than yours is whopped by a 2013 model and you're yapping about competing with the 2015 model.
the only link i put here costing the lenovo is from the lenovo site , so which fake link are you referring to bros

Fulaman198:
Wrong on all accounts. My Lenovo isn't even half the price of a Macbook Pro 15". Again, you lied on numerous occasions. I linked numerous links that showed that typically speaking a Lenovo Thinkpad W541 is inbetween the price of $1200 USD and $1900. I don't know what bogus fake links you are linking.

which spec is this please ? the one you boasted competes with the macbook pro and slays it and all dat, or just the spec thats convenient for your argument ?

Fulaman198:
Oops forgot to change the resolution of the monitor, still nowhere near the price you linked earlier. It goes back to what I was saying that you get much more for your money. If I lived in the states, I could order RAM for cheap on a site like Amazon and max out everything. Something you can't do on a Macbook.

@ Fulaman, I have established that
-your lenovo is outperformed by a cheaper macbook pro
-the macbook pro 13" is the most powerful small form factor notebook
-the perceived "huge" difference in cost between equally performing PCs and MacBooks are actually infact just a perception, and is untrue most of the time.
-You really don't know as much as you wrongly assume you do.

what have you established?

dude, i thought you were an engineer ? the cinbench test measures "overall performance" that is "allrounder" performance test !! good lord.
lol, you're showing me frame rates for game playback
you should have taken a cue from the performance results i posted for the xps 13 and xps 15,

Fulaman198:
You were slayed by your own link

i thought i already established that i couldn't find performance information on the w541 and you agree the processor is only 10% faster than the w540, you accused me of not showing the processor for the test subject and i did just that. why u getting your panties up in bunch

Fulaman198:
You seriously must not be very intelligent.

The W541 and W540 are different computers.

The W540 is 2 years old, the W541 is new. Stop posting crap and incorrect information. You keep posting W540, and I have a W541. You completely have lost all credibility. Your own link and screenshot slays you.

You My friend have told one too many lies , configured to the spec you boasted about earlier, the w541 costs over $2,600..see the screenshot. the base configuration of the macbook pro cost just $1,999 and is clocked at 2.5Ghz, the higher config is clocked at 2.7ghz and costs $2,499
if a 2013ghz model clocked at 2.3ghz kicks the 2.7ghz 4800MQ cpu on the w540 in the butt, you can only imagine how it compares to a much more powerful 2015 model

by the way your very own personal almighty high end power horse is running a puny 4710MQ processor clocked at 2.5Ghz. which even pales in comparison to the 4800MQ , How dare you compare that tuna can to a 2015 retina macbook pro ? damn i didn't even think to check your system spec all the while
And you're here making noise about no macbook can outperform your bla bla bla ...smh

and talking about

Fulaman198:
the funny thing is that when you compare the Macbook Pro 15" and the Thinkpad W541 (they are competitors), the thinkpad W541 is much cheaper and performs better.

LOL, dude,you taking this shiii real personal , nevertheless...The author primarily lists the unavialability of engineering software on the OS as the issue bro, what are you getting at? and do you see the mention of the macbook pro appearing in almost every list of best laptops by the same author you quoted
in response to your earlier post, I don't see the point in pasting a 3000 word article to buttress a point made in one paragraph when i can crop that one paragraph and paste it here.
here is the source link
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-w540-2014
and like i said before the 2.3Ghz base configuration of a 2 year old macbook pro, outperformed your 2.7Ghz high end lenovo. can u dream how much of a whooping the 2015 model would give??
oh, now you're talking ridiculous and unscientific but you were casting aspersions without any reasonable facts earlier and i have provided figures that refuted all your frivolous claims. you don comot from ultrabook category enter your own model...mac still kicks ass.

hope the processor in question is clear enough in the screenshot below. if they had been in the same paragraph i would definitely have gotten it

Fulaman198:
No you just post snippets, it's called anecdotal evidence. Anyone can do that. You don't mention which processor was used during the test on the W540 thus making your case look even more ridiculous an unscientific.

If you are going to be biased and dishonest, at least try to be more sly about it. The 10% is a low-ball. I don't have to overexaggerate to prove something.

I will reiterate my statement. No Apple computer is as powerful as my Lenovo Thinkpad W541. Too much throttling under a heavy load of tasks/applications, and not enough memory/RAM for serious computing can be found on the Macbook Pro 15". In fact, it's not even considered one of the best engineering laptops because it doesn't have the power:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/175393-best-laptops-for-engineers-when-work-requires-a-real-workstation

lol, dude we're comparing it with an apple notebook thats 2yrs old remember trust me , the 2014 macbook pro is more than 10% faster let alone the 2015, couldn't find the benchmark score of your w541, i for still open your eyes

Fulaman198:
If you were smart you would know that the W541 has 4 processors

The processor in the W541 is 10% faster than the one found in the W540 they don't have the same internals, again mis-information

Processors for the W540:

Core i7-4700mq
Core i7-4800mq
core i7-4900mq
core i7 extreme 4930mx

Processors for the W541:

core i7-4710mq
core i7-4810mq
core i7-4910mq
core i7 extreme 4940mx

Your fanboyism with Apple is forcing you to lie and fabricate stories.

the t450 was the leading contender in the link you sent me, and that was the laptop i was referencing when i made my post
by the way..@ screenshot below, so much for your high end w541, u obviously know the w541 is a slimmer version of the w540 with the same internals , u see how that compares to a 2013 macbook pro ? lol notice they all had higher clock speeds than the old macbook pro, but lo and behold...the macbook shone!!! bright as always

Fulaman198:
Do you see where I said "X-series" in my statement and not "T-series", that's besides the point anyways. If you like your Macbook Pro, good for you. I'm quite pleased with my high-end Thinkpad W541. We'll leave it at that.

mr right information, i have continued to clearly identified your wrong assertions and assumptions , i'll continue to oblige you. the laptop in question comes in with a base configuration core i3 processor, but thats besides the point, i was drawing an analogy in relation to performance difference that was why i even mentioned the processors in the first place.
My underlying argument has always been about the 13" retina macbook pro, and your claim of having better and cheaper windows alternatives to it in the ultrabook category. I am concerned with nothing more

Fulaman198:
It's a core i5.....Don't know where you are getting your mis-information from about the X-series being a core i3, when the review clearly states core i5-5300U.

lol, thats always your response when you aint got $h!t to say
fault any of the 3 with a constructive argument den we can, talk.

Fulaman198:
What you are saying is bull crap.

I'll say this as well.

Apple doesn't build any notebook as powerful with as many ports as the Lenovo Thinkpad W541, I charge you to prove me wrong.

Also, Thinkpads (no matter the model the T-series, X-series, W-series, E-series, etc.) are all built with more durable materials than the Macbook as has been illustrated in various tests (temperature tests, dropping tests, spill tests, etc.)

like i said before....
there is no 13" lenovo notebook in the world that is as thin and powerful as the macbook pro with a battery life as long as 12 plus hours.
I charge you to prove me wrong

Fulaman198:
Different performing categories? What are you talking about, they are all ultrabooks

so a core i3 12 inch laptop with 4GB ram clocked at less thank 2GHz is now in the same performance category as 2.7Ghz 5250U notebook
"ultrabook" is a size category, has nothing to do with performance .the puny new macbook like u call it, with a 1.1ghz M processor is an ultra-ultra book too remember ?

Fulaman198:
Different performing categories? What are you talking about, they are all ultrabooks

common man , i keep things clear when i make my comparisons, these laptops are from different performance categories naaaa, haba..the page is talking longest battery life regardless of how it is achieved and how much they can do.
its like comparing an xps 13 (over 10 hrs) to a 15" macbook (over 7 hrs) and saying dells have a better battery life than the mac. you don't go mixing categories up.
besides that, in your haste to make a point you didn't notice that two out of the only three notebooks in the world that beat the macbook pro battery longevity(over 12 hrs) do so with "extended batteries" (extra bulk )and are in no way near the performance level or slimness of the macbook pro. the third one which is the toshiba protege is a hybrid and when its docked lasts just 7.29 hrs.
there is no 13" lenovo notebook in the world that is as thin and powerful as the macbook pro with a battery life as long as 12 plus hours.

so tell me again, ....who is the competition?? (

Fulaman198:
I'm not going to post this twice in regards to battery life. Your assertions about Apple having the best battery life is backed up by what evidence?

http://m.blog.laptopmag.com/all-day-strong-longest-lasting-notebooks

I really don't get why you keep up an argument, the two 13" laptops in the video comparison are priced the same ..@ $1300 and the macbook performed better, which better specs are you referring to again ??
same as the 15" category, a $2400 configuration of the ups was compared to a $1999 configuration of the mac and the macbook edged over the xps 15,

JustCalMeDBoss:
Both bizze and fulman are right why the 13 inch macbook pro might be the best 13inch laptop the dell xps 13 always has better specs at the same price. But you are so wrong the optimizations the osx has for design centric ppl. Can you name them. You are entering into my territory and for video editors nothing compares to horsepower. If you understand how video editing softwares work they use the gpu for video accleration. The macbook pro 13 uses the intel graphics it does not count now that gpu needs a fast cpu to feed it instructions I have a tricked out macbook pro 15 dat got burnt less than 3 months a tricked out macbook pro is around $3300 You can get kickass laptops for that price. Let's not get into desktops

You get my drift
I'm not interested in any macbook vs windows d!cck measuring contest, cos in my opinion like any other product, all the different notebooks in the market have a target consumer. find what works for you,Simple.
but when people come up with design and functionality statements that are factually wrong, and try to act like they know what the heck they're talking about, that ticks me off. for instance;

(1) that macbook pros do not have vents and hence cannot breathe and this will in turn affect their performance, and that this is a design flaw, etc...there are vents on three sides of my 2015 macbook pro, carefully hidden in an unobtrusive and aesthetics-consious manner. that aside,the notebook still runs cooler than others within the same performance category. i don't see how they're sacrificing design logic if they give you a notebook thats very slim and yet runs cools.
just call me the boss stated on page 1, quote "the processor in a macbook compared to a similarly speed hp or dell always performs below because of this nostrils you talk about......a comparable hp or dell laptop to a macbook pro is always cheaper with better performance" ....in the screenshot above we see the performance scores of the xp3 13 and that of the 13" macbook pro, both with core i5 processors, both $1300 and the macbook practically slays the other windows device..we also see a comparison in the 15" category between a $2400 dell xps15 and a $1999 15" macbook pro, you see how at $400 cheaper, the macbook pro outperforms the $2400 dell. this is the same macbook that justcallmedboss says is moot in the 15" category, also kindly observe the specs detailed for the dell in the screenshot below and compare with those available for the mac at $2499. which gives a better value ?

(2) on page 1, fulaman asserted that lenovos are built to military specs and that dell has apple beat in the battery area. lol, military specs seriously brah?
apple still rules the market in d power dept, as you can see from the battery performance of the dell xps 15 vs the macbook pro 15" in one of the previous screenshots same in the 13" category, dell is however the closest competitor

(3) on this page, fulaman in his infinite knowledge stated that..."Mac machines do not and have never outperformed windows machines at the same price point wether it is desktop, huge workstation, ultrabooks, it doesn't happen" now we know how much of a fact that is.

who's stating the facts and who is just casting aspersions

maybe like some other poster said here, there are too many fake and cheap notebooks in the market hence the perceived "huge" price gap, apple is just one company and MacBooks aren't that popular outside of north america, so less chances of adulteration, but on the windows side...with so many OEMs and so many models from each OEM, the market is a jungle. I've seen notebooks up to 50% cheaper here than what is obtainable in europe or northamerica especially hp models. and when people compare these notebooks to the price of genuine MacBooks the gap looks sooo humongous.

I buy ALL my notebooks in the US and i can tell you that with the kind of research that i put in before any purchase, i know what the heck I'm talking about when I'm talking about whatever the heck I'm taking bout. I've used windows almost all my life, switched to OS X just a few months ago. for certain personal reasons

dazekid:
I like how Bizzle2 picked one apple product(the 13inch MacBook Pro) and drove his points from there and most of his statements are factually a.

the dell xps 13 is the closest thing to the 13" macbook pro, there is no other challenger in the "ultrabook category"
and by the way the two others you mentioned were not in comparison to the 13" macbook pro

Fulaman198:
The Dell XPS is but one Windows computer. I have listed several on this thread.