Advice: Be careful buying from an Apple refurbisher
Eleanor Spenceley Alas if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is and I was sent a lowly 12 Core Mac! The machine was returned after an offer of £50 off to keep the machine was rejected and so I got my money back. All good I suppose.... Mistakes can be made.
Luckily there was another machine advertised on backmarket with the following specs... 28core, 48 GB Ram, 512 GB SSD and a Radeon PRO W6800X (with 64 GB Ram). The graphics memory seemed a little off since they usually have just 32 GB, so was this a much more expensive DUO?... Once again the price looked too good, but
in order to get clarification of the specs I had to start an order and then ask the questions I had...
The refurbisher sent a JPEG of the specs...
Advertised vs JPEG
28 Cores vs 8 Cores - VERY WRONG ~(Top vs Bottom)
48 GB RAM vs 48 GB RAM - Correct
512 GB SSD vs 2TB SSD - Better than advertised
AMD RADEON PRO W6800X vs AMD RADEON 5700X - VERY WRONG (high end vs mid to low end).
64 GB Graphics Memory vs 16 GB Graphics Memory - VERY WRONG
How resellers think they can sell such a mismatch of specs and think the buyer wouldnt reject it is beyond me!
All I can say is avoid buying anything from backmarket...
Aw well, back to watching ebay and that elusive 28 core machine!!!!