Hi Listers
This will explain my sudden need for cash. My 2008 MacBook Pro's logic
board has died and I don't have AppleCare.
It's the 17" version of the last range before unibody was introduced,
and is described here: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2.5-17-early-2008-penryn-specs.html
. It also had
higher-resolution (1920 x 1200) screen
2·6 GHz processor
about a year ago, replaced the two 1GB RAM cards for two 2GB RAM cards
Cosmetically, pretty good - always travelled in a padded rucsac
designed for 17" laptops, and usually in an extra layer of padding too.
It's been a bit wobbly since May - local Apple repairers said that the
hard disk was wobbly and replaced the original 7200 rpm 200GB hard
disk but it was never happy, and the motherboard definitely failed on
Monday. It can be replaced for about £500 - but will only be
guaranteed for 90 days. No chance!
So,
either I want to buy a replacement motherboard for a far more
affordable price, or with a much better guarantee.
or I want to sell the carcass. This would get you almost everything
the presumably fully functional screen assembly
bottom case
RAM
all the innards
the original installer DVDs if you want them
I'd prefer to keep the hard disk, unless you really, really need it -
I can put it in my XServe G5 and not bother trying to expand the
sparsebundles on my TimeCapsule onto the rather small HD already in my
XServe.
How does £500 plus shipping from Bruce Ryan, Edinburgh (postcode EH3
7PX) Scotland/UK sound. Feel free to make offers or even to advise me
I'm asking too little!
thanks for reading this
Bruce
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