Macbook Broken

[jjhellis]

I have had mine for 5 months and yesterday I tried to turn on and the screen flashed once the disc drive span and the white light came on and that was it.

So I took it back to John Lewis and they sent it off for repair but now I really miss it and feel strange going back to my windows machine.

Has anyone had this happen and has anyone been sent a new one instead of a fixed one.

 

[novicew]

It all depends on the state of your MacBook, I guess. If it is a serious issue you might as well get a new one. In most cases however, they can easily repair things.

PS: It must be awful to go back to Windows.

 

[jjhellis]

It all depends on the state of your MacBook, I guess. If it is a serious issue you might as well get a new one. In most cases however, they can easily repair things.

PS: It must be awful to go back to Windows.

Yep windows is so much slower and my old pc has always had problems and my MB was just right to fit under my tv and use as a media player.

 

[Dodger]

I hope this never happens to me, especially because I gave away my old gaming PC... well old is new actually but oh well.

 

[Z mann R2]

dude.....ALWAYS call apple first before you just ship it off for repair....I dont know how close you are to an Apple store but I bet they could ahve fixed it on site....you could have tried resetting the PRAM that worked for me for a lil while then i just found out I had a faulty battery, they replaced it at the Apple store and it worked fine......and your problem sounds just like my problem

 

[Flic]

Be warned, good old John Lewis will probably wipe your Macbook during repairs. So I hope you backed everything up! My friend took his Mac just to have the charger repaired with JL and it came back erased, he was not impressed it also took them a very long time!

 

[jjhellis]

Be warned, good old John Lewis will probably wipe your Macbook during repairs. So I hope you backed everything up! My friend took his Mac just to have the charger repaired with JL and it came back erased, he was not impressed it also took them a very long time!

Thanks for the warning Flic but I had upgraded the hdd a few months ago and formated the old one to use as a external drive so when died I just swapped them over before taking it in and lucky I got it back yesterday which is only 4 days which i was quite a surprise since I was expecting a couple of weeks, I would hate to think how long a windows laptop would have taken.

The fault with the MB was the motherboard so lets hope it doesn't happen again.

I was just so surprised that JL took it in when I had lost the receipt It's a shame other retailers are not like this.

 

[jjhellis]

dude.....ALWAYS call apple first before you just ship it off for repair....I dont know how close you are to an Apple store but I bet they could ahve fixed it on site....you could have tried resetting the PRAM that worked for me for a lil while then i just found out I had a faulty battery, they replaced it at the Apple store and it worked fine......and your problem sounds just like my problem

Thanks for the advice

I would have gone to the apple shop if I was near one but my nearest is London and I didn't fancy the trip.

But I didn't realise how much I would miss it.

I have now been considering a mac mini now they have upgraded them just incase this happens again.

 

[Digitalsoul]

yep....you are lucky dude, i guess if mine would break, i don't think i would ever touch windows again. i am a mac convert and i used to think that windows is all the fun, but hey, mac is just the angel and God of computers. i love my macbook so much, it is so adictive....the bluetooth is so reat, now i can just sit somewhere and just accesss my internet through my mobile without even looking for the phone....what a devic!!! I thank God i changed to mac, i had been missing

 

[colinof]

same thing happened to mine but it comes on every now and again. i dont know if my apple shop is actually a proper apple store but im gonna ring up soon. i hate ringing ppl