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As a graduation present to myself, I bought a used Macbook on Ebay in June for $600. (My mistake. I should have known better.) These are the specs: MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.16 13" (White) Specs (Mid-2007, MB062LL/A, MacBook2,1, A1181, 2139) @ EveryMac.com .
The original owner claimed that it was in perfect condition, etc. I believed him 100%. I received the laptop, turned it on, and used it for about 2 hours. Everything seemed fine. So, I put it on a shelf in my room. I planned to use my old pc until I moved to college in the fall - saving the laptop to be my new school computer.
I moved up to school. The semester began, and I used the computer for three days without any problems. On the third day, it booted up to the blank white screen shown in the picture, and it won't load past that screen. See picture: http://i56.tinypic.com/29fc7tk.jpg
I can't get my money back because it's been too long since the purchase. There's no Applecare on it. But, as a poor college student $600 was a lot of money - and a lot of hours ringing cash registers. I feel ripped-off and humiliated. I sunk all kinds of money into accessories for it.
I don't know, if I should sell the laptop online for parts or try to repair it. I read reports of other people spending $300 to replace LCD's or hard drives to fix this problem. If you take the $600 I spent and the $300 to repair it, I would have just been better off buying a new one. Is this computer worth investing anymore money in? Does anybody know what could be wrong with it or have suggestions on how to fix it? It's been sitting on my shelf for two weeks, and I don't know what to do with it.
The original owner claimed that it was in perfect condition, etc. I believed him 100%. I received the laptop, turned it on, and used it for about 2 hours. Everything seemed fine. So, I put it on a shelf in my room. I planned to use my old pc until I moved to college in the fall - saving the laptop to be my new school computer.
I moved up to school. The semester began, and I used the computer for three days without any problems. On the third day, it booted up to the blank white screen shown in the picture, and it won't load past that screen. See picture: http://i56.tinypic.com/29fc7tk.jpg
I can't get my money back because it's been too long since the purchase. There's no Applecare on it. But, as a poor college student $600 was a lot of money - and a lot of hours ringing cash registers. I feel ripped-off and humiliated. I sunk all kinds of money into accessories for it.
I don't know, if I should sell the laptop online for parts or try to repair it. I read reports of other people spending $300 to replace LCD's or hard drives to fix this problem. If you take the $600 I spent and the $300 to repair it, I would have just been better off buying a new one. Is this computer worth investing anymore money in? Does anybody know what could be wrong with it or have suggestions on how to fix it? It's been sitting on my shelf for two weeks, and I don't know what to do with it.