2023 MacBook Pro with Apple M3 chip 14-inch, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD Space Gray (Renewed)

The MacBook arrived in very good condition and works perfectly. It is fast, smooth, and the screen and overall build look great. When it arrived, the battery health was 93% with 303 charge cycles, which is reasonable for a renewed device, and the battery lasts well for everyday use. I’ve now been using it for four months, and everything is still working great. Overall, I’m very happy with the quality and value.

I've been using computers since they were "work stations" enslaved to a mainframe that occupied the entire basement of a building. I've been using Apple computers since 1991, so I'm rarely surprised by a Mac's performance. Still, this MacBook Pro with M3 chip impresses me. But this review is really about the condition of the MacBook I just bought from iPower Resale. It was shipped promptly but delayed by winter weather. The product box looked just like a new Apple box, minus the Apple logo, and was safely packed inside two cartons for shipment. The outer carton showed some wear from shipping, but the inner carton was unblemished and product box perfect, as if pulled from a store shelf. Since it is a used MacBook rated in "excellent" condition, I expected to find some fine scratches or scuffing somewhere on the case. I found none. I expected to find the patina of wear on the keyboard keys. They all had the matte finish of a brand-new keyboard. I expected to find faint scratches on the screen. I found none. I worried that the charger and cable might be generic substitutes. They were authentic Apple products in perfect condition. I expected to find at least 100 charging cycles on the battery. I found only 2 cycles, meaning the battery array was replaced during refurbishment; the first from testing and the second from my charging it before transferring data from my old MacBook Pro to this one. By any objective evaluation, my used MacBook Pro is identical to a factory-fresh one. But I paid a little more than half the full retail price. I couldn't be happier. I would rate it "premium." Because it's an Apple MacBook Pro, I will get two to three times as many years' use from it as a Windows-based machine, and it will still have respectable trade-in value. Savings upon savings!

Quality stuff

If I could leave less than one star I would. Product arrived with many big noticeable marks on the outside. I can definetly tell that it had many stikers, the outside has a slightly different shade on many places where the stikers used to be, apart of having many scratches. The inside was scrubbed so hard to get the sticker out they actually scrubbed off the darker color off the aluminum and it has a big almost two inch color degrade on the aluminum. This is definitely not acceptable. But the worst part is that the operating system is dead on arrival. Starts lagging out of nowhere. The whole system freezes and won’t go back to normal until I restart the device. Also the trackpad stops working out of nowhere and won’t keep working until I restart the device. I’m basically restarting every two minutes. For a 1000 usd computer this is terrible! Costumer service is being terrible and I’m having to deal with an unbothered costumer service. I have bought renewed before with other companies. I would not recommend this company at all!

The computer came in pristine condition; not one blemish. When I first tried to turn it on, it wouldn’t. I Googled the problem and AI informed me that a MacBook Pro required a preliminary charge before it would cooperate (and turn on). I tried after leaving it plugged into my power supply but simply couldn’t get it to work. (I had no idea that the MagSafe charger had a light to indicate that the battery was charging, which it does.) To make a long story short the problem was the charging “brick” (the piece that plugs into the power socket in the wall). I replaced it with one I had and…“ping”, it came on! Other than that one “small and very easily correctable” problem it works fabulously. The battery in the machine will hold a “full charge” for days if left unused (and of course unplugged). I am extremely happy with this device. It’s lightweight and has great processing speed. The screen is “totally” unblemished and renders colors very beautifully. At the same price I could have purchased a MacAir with an M5 processor. I am so glad I didn’t do that. This machine has more than enough processing power, greater storage capacity than the new MacAir and much greater connectivity. Bottom line? What did I do before I bought this? I simply love it!

My old 2015 15" MacBook Pro (Intel) was at the end for me, as it was getting to the point that it was not able to run some of the software that I wanted. I got this 2024 14" M3 as an update. Pros: has a physical ESC button beautifully engineered equipment, just as I expected from Apple very comfortable to use backlit keyboard excellent easy to use touchpad display is fricken beautiful aluminum case is a work of engineering art. Cons: It's too small. Unlike with my 2015 15" machine, my 50+ year old eyes need reading glasses to use this thing. The M3 processor is ARM, which means if your in the habit of running non-ARM VMs on your MacBook, you won't be doing it with this device. :( I'm thinking about checking out the 15" MacBook Air to address my size complaint. But for an Intel processor desires, I'll be keeping my 2015 15" around for awhile.

I ordered this laptop and received it within about 3 days. It came very carefully packaged and in pristine condition! I was a little skeptical and after reading reviews was worried about receiving another language keyboard or having to expect battery issues, but so far so good! It did charge to 100% on the first night, and I’ve noticed after about an hour of use it dropped to 88% pretty quickly but that’s nothing to worry about if I’m honest. I have experience opening computers so if I have to change the battery I’m not worried at all and I’m super happy I didn’t let that deter me from buying! I will say I’ve been having issues with the trackpad going unresponsive every so often, it’s nothing to truly complain about but I have noticed it a few times. The computer is beautiful nonetheless and came exactly when I needed it! I love it and am extremely happy with my purchase. I would give 5 stars but only because of the trackpad I’m going to give 4. EDITED: I was getting a little annoyed with the trackpad issue, then I realized it wasn’t the trackpad going inresponsive all the time, only when I had a pop up window in safari to upload documents. I googled the issue and it said all I needed to do was update the laptop. It’s been working great ever since!!

Everything works is expected, no issues and is in great condition!!

Si no fuera por que se retrasó le diera las 5 estrellas, pero el producto me llegó 9.9/10 por algunos detalles de uso, nada que reprochar Llegó con cargador tipo C pero no tengo problema 👍🏽

Viene con detalles en toda la computadora, realizaré la devolución, ya que no me agrada el nivel de detalles que tiene por el precio

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