Jonathan Tullett

MacBook Pro for sale

By jkt, on January 23rd, 2012

Update: sold

I'm looking to sell one of my Apple MacBook Pros.

It's an April 2010 model, customized with the following spec:

15.4-inch LED-backlit antiglare Hi-Res widescreen display (1680 x 1050 px)
4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard); an upgrade to Lion can be had for 30 GBP from the App store.

For those interested in more technical details:

Processor: 2.66GHz Intel Core i7
Cache: 4MB shared L3 cache
Memory: 4GB (two 2GB) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics5 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with automatic graphics switching
Hard disk drive1: 500GB Serial ATA, 5400 rpm
Optical drive: 8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Wireless: AirPort Extreme (802.11n)4 Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Expansion: Two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, one SD card slot
Video and Audio: iSight camera; Mini DisplayPort output port with support for DVI, VGA, dual-link DVI, and HDMI (requires adapters, sold separately)
Stereo speakers with subwoofers, omnidirectional microphone, audio line in minijack (digital/analog), audio line out/headphone minijack (digital/analog)
Size and weight:
- Height: .95 inches (2.41 cm)
- Width: 14.35 inches (36.4 cm)
- Depth: 9.82 inches (24.9 cm)
- Weight (standard configuration): 5.6 pounds (2.54 kg)

It was completely refurbished (by the Apple Store in Covent Garden) in October 2011, with a whole new uni-body, trackpad, keyboard. It's as 'as new' as you can get; boxed, all the cables etc.

Brand new, it was 1950 GBP. That same spec, with the same hi-res (1680 x 1050 px) anti-glare screen, on E-bay is going for 1250. I'd prefer to sell to someone I know, and will accept 1000 (or make me a reasonable offer). I'll include insured shipping to anywhere in the UK, or it can be picked up from Orpington or Central London.

Let me know if you're interested – j (at) jkt (dot) im, else I'll go on e-bay next week.

FreeNAS == Mac OS X Backup perfection?

By jkt, on January 13th, 2012

According to Linus Torvolds, I'm not a real man. But I can live with that; I don't want all my data uploaded for FTP mirroring.

The Tullett house is, laptop wise, almost exclusively MacBook Pro based. Sure there's a netbook which boots Linux and a couple of laptops which we're about . . .
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus: SMS sending delays

By jkt, on January 12th, 2012

For Xmas, I got Rae one of the new Galaxy Nexus phones.

While a little large for my liking, the phone is pretty and Ice Cream Sandwich seems a decent incremental upgrade, despite a number of applications not yet being upgraded to take advantage of some of the features (the . . .
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Letting go; unsticking the brain

By jkt, on January 12th, 2012

One of my goals for 2012 which wasn't on my list, is to work on certain aspects of my mental agility.

Some people have amazing skills of compartmentalising: when they're at work, that's all that's on their mind; at home they are able to switch off completely. Others, even if their upset-triggers are . . .
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God Head: And then there was art

By jkt, on January 10th, 2012

Since our trip to The Gambia where we purchased our first artwork by a local artist, we've consciously been looking at adding to our art collection. Last Thursday we were fortunate enough to be at the private viewing of Cut & Run at the Kemistry Gallery in Old Street.

Some great work . . .
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