Apple sells you barely functioning macbooks which will break soon so you can go pay for repairs again![]()
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saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate
Apple authorized repair != the refurbished Macs you buy directly from the company.
The same warning can be extended to buying refurbished Dells, HPs, Lenovos, etc. Always stick to official channels when looking for such machines.Jarhead likes this. -
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Used cars have less wrong with them and crap like this is common on places like craigslist and eBay. Better off doing Hackentosh with a cheap Thinkpad or Precision instead at a much lower cost.
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I know Lenovo was first to the touchbar nonsense, but with at least six similar 14" laptops, could we have at least one that isn't an ultrabook wannabe? They made an another insulting attempt last year with a very limited run of a singular "retro" model (with specs that were laughably outdated at launch). Just enough features to get away with saying "I told you so," when it inevitably failed. Lenovo can now falsely argue any attempts to compare this to actual retro Thinkpads is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy, in order to shut down any dissent against their preordained decision. -
All the returned laptops are run through a bunch of tests, if they pass and there is no damage/scratches/dents/marks, they are sent to a facility that cleans and repacks them, and those are usually the models that are sold when there are promos/discounts, sometimes the same laptop follows this process a couple times before the "tests" finally discover/confirm some strange sporadic fail condition.
Warranty centres can't do anything related to board/component repair, those parts are swapped out for refurbed one, in EU those refurb centers are usually in Poland(cheap labour), and as expect its more of a butcher house than a repair center, but if the board power up and posts, ship it and swap it.
I have seen laptops that where made out of parts from other 5-6 ones...
I have seen phones sold in promos that had parts from 4 other phones, and it failed, and then it was a disgrace to put it back to working order, because it was an already discontinued model.
Nation wide retailers share a big part of the blame on this whole craptop fiesta. -
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All other brands replace components on the PCB's, its just that warranty centers can't do it, only the region repair center can do it.
Sometimes when the deadline was already hit, I swapped ports, and once I swapped an eMMC, but it can only be done with express authorisation from the brand, if a warranty center is caught doing so they can lose the brand. -
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it's way outdated in additionVasudev likes this. -
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shares the same chassis with budget 15.6" T series, which is even more retarded -
Workstation priorities are way different from Gaming.
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the correct answer to all your questions is p870tm.
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it's fine once you repaste it
but doing it on a "professional" device costing thousands of dollars
really makes you think9ac3 likes this.
Why be careful about refurb Macbooks
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Danishblunt, May 21, 2018.