Refurb is the way to go if you want to save big bucks on Apple gear. These mid-2017 machines have been refurbished by Apple so you know they will look and work like new
You can save up to 26% off today on a renewed 13-inch MacBook Pro (2017) as Amazon's Deal of the Day, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s still a few hundred dollars off the price tag of a brand new model – and that’s an extra few hundred dollars in your pocket that you wouldn’t have if you went with a brand-new unit.
Renewed products work and look like new. These pre-owned products are not Apple certified but have been inspected and tested by Amazon-qualified suppliers. Box and accessories may be generic. All Renewed products come with the 90-day Amazon Renewed Guarantee.
Apple’s refurbished laptops are especially smart to consider right now. Apple has started selling refurbished units of its 2018 lineup, which come with the most important update for Apple laptops in years: Intel’s latest 8th-generation of chips.
Intel’s 8th-generation of chips is meaningful. So meaningful, in fact, that I’d dissuade most people from buying Mac laptops with older generations of Intel chips, especially in the 13-inch models, whether they’re brand new or refurbished.
That’s because Intel’s 8th-generation of chips in Mac laptops contain four or more cores. For those who use Macs for regular work with more or less “basic” apps like Microsoft’s Office Suite, office messaging apps, and a web browser, it means better longevity for your Mac. It’ll potentially give your MacBook longer legs by handling your workload for a longer time period than Mac laptops with older Intel chips that come with two cores.
And for those using video and photo editing software, four cores or more mean faster and smoother editing.
Both of the models on sale are the non-Touch Bar versions of the machine with two Thunderbolt 3 ports. Each is equipped with an Intel Core i5-7360U 2.3GHz processor, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 and 8GB RAM.
While the 13-inch MacBook Pro got an update last summer, there's relatively little difference between the current 13-inch model and the previous-gen on the spec sheet. Unless you need to squeeze every bit of power out of your machine (or really want the Touch Bar), you can save big by going for these discounted refurbished models.
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