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I purchased my white macbook in March 2008 from BestBuy and opted not to buy applecare.
I love macs. This is my third mac laptop. I dropped my powerbook G4, cracked the screen... $1100 to fix. So I ditched it for parts. My dad cracked his dell screen, and it was $100 to fix. Then I replaced the powerbook G4 with a used iBook G4. It worked great for 2 months and then out of nowhere, or so I thought, the logic board crashed. Turns out, all iBooks in a certain manufacturing timeframe had bad logic boards, and were recalled. Mine was in that range. But, I bought it on eBay, so apple wouldn't let me exchange it. So I sold it for parts.
Now, I've had my macbook for a few months, and suddenly it is doing the dreaded "X" battery thing. Without the AC connected, even when the battery has full charge, it shuts down intermittently. The only thing that will keep it running consistently is to keep it plugged in to the AC.
So I called apple, and the tech walked me through some prompts to be sure that my software is all updated. Everything was sound. So they sent me a battery, free of charge, to fix the problem. Well, the battery works fine, but my computer still doesn't. So I brought it into my local mac store and had a "Genius" work on it. He couldn't find any problem, and just suggested that I reinstall OSX after backing up my files (no easy task).
If there is an easy fix, I've tried it. One thing I'm finding most of these situations have in common, is that the problem never really gets fixed, and it ends up costing you money to fix if it's the logic board. And I could buy apple care, still, and get it fixed for free... but I've noticed that this situation always ends up being met with more problems.
So, as a struggling grad student who needs a consistently working laptop that is reliable and cheap to fix, I have to sell this thing.
Like I said, it works 100% fine when it's plugged in, and about 50% of the time when it's not. Cosmetically, it's perfect. I still have the original box, and all it's contents.
I want to sell it "AS IS." Does anyone have an idea of what a realistic reserve price might be?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses.
I love macs. This is my third mac laptop. I dropped my powerbook G4, cracked the screen... $1100 to fix. So I ditched it for parts. My dad cracked his dell screen, and it was $100 to fix. Then I replaced the powerbook G4 with a used iBook G4. It worked great for 2 months and then out of nowhere, or so I thought, the logic board crashed. Turns out, all iBooks in a certain manufacturing timeframe had bad logic boards, and were recalled. Mine was in that range. But, I bought it on eBay, so apple wouldn't let me exchange it. So I sold it for parts.
Now, I've had my macbook for a few months, and suddenly it is doing the dreaded "X" battery thing. Without the AC connected, even when the battery has full charge, it shuts down intermittently. The only thing that will keep it running consistently is to keep it plugged in to the AC.
So I called apple, and the tech walked me through some prompts to be sure that my software is all updated. Everything was sound. So they sent me a battery, free of charge, to fix the problem. Well, the battery works fine, but my computer still doesn't. So I brought it into my local mac store and had a "Genius" work on it. He couldn't find any problem, and just suggested that I reinstall OSX after backing up my files (no easy task).
If there is an easy fix, I've tried it. One thing I'm finding most of these situations have in common, is that the problem never really gets fixed, and it ends up costing you money to fix if it's the logic board. And I could buy apple care, still, and get it fixed for free... but I've noticed that this situation always ends up being met with more problems.
So, as a struggling grad student who needs a consistently working laptop that is reliable and cheap to fix, I have to sell this thing.
Like I said, it works 100% fine when it's plugged in, and about 50% of the time when it's not. Cosmetically, it's perfect. I still have the original box, and all it's contents.
I want to sell it "AS IS." Does anyone have an idea of what a realistic reserve price might be?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses.
