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Afaik they boot your mac from a external hard-drive when they're reparing it. So they only need your hard-disk if that's the part you want them to replace.
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All my data was intact. Happy ending. I'll be sending apple a very nice email thanking them.

Seriously, I'd send them a nice e-mail telling them how poor customer service that was. They first claimed it was gone, then had you call around to get it back.

Good that you got your drive back tho. The Intel SSDs are fantastic.
 
UPDATE!!!!!
UPDATE!!!!!


So I haven't done anything since last Saturday when I spent the whole day on the phone asking about where my SSD ended up and if I would ever get it back again.

Today I received a FedEX Box, shipped Priority Overnight from the repair depot in Memphis, TN. There were no slips, no tags inside. Just my SSD. How do I know it was mine? Because I wrote my name on it with a sharpie when I first bought it. =)

All my data was intact. Happy ending. I'll be sending apple a very nice email thanking them.

NEXT ON THE LIST - BUY AN APPLE TABLET!
I understand you're pleased and your biggest mistake when sending your machine in for repair turned out very well for you, but frankly I would not be thanking Apple. I'd take my drive and be done with it, but I wouldn't go out of my way any more to actually thank them.
Thank them? For what??
Yeah I have to wonder myself.

Gee Apple. Thanks for taking out an Intel SSD and tossing it to the side. Thanks for replacing it with the slowest possible drive you could and then thanks for allowing me to sit around and argue with you all day about it. Then I'd like to thank you for not owning up to your error and simply sending me back the SSD, no questions asked or answered. Thanks. :rolleyes:
 
newsflash for some folks:

the current generation of unibody laptops do not have any user changeable or serviceable parts.

there is no standard removable panel on the underside.

late 2008 - early 2009 MBP have a panel that allows access to the hard drive and battery, which makes them user serviceable. ram requires removal of the undercover, which makes it not serviceable.

the original MBP design had user serviceable ram but not hard drive.

essentially, apple doesn't want or expect the majority of users to replace or change their hardware.

they also have you sign that little disclaimer that states they will return any malfunctioning device to it's as purchased configuration.

a SSD probably would have posted an error when being tested as a standard HDD.

Bahahaha, I just love love LOVE it when a person goes around saying "HEY IDIOT, in case you didn't know..." when they themselves couldn't be more wrong.

XD oh the iron e.
 
Today I received a FedEX Box, shipped Priority Overnight from the repair depot in Memphis, TN.

I really dislike the folks at the TN repair center, this sounds like something they'd do. I'm sure they swiped it and to avoid Apple cracking down on them they quietly shipped it back without so much as a titter.

They have repaired all of my past macs and each time it seems they just say "oh it's not fitting together correctly? Replace all the parts, send it back and who gives a damn what they say after that" rather than taking 2 seconds to see if the computer actually fits together or not!

Crooked screen, crooked trackpad, broken Apple logo, almost non-functional power button, loose battery door, ALL thanks to the TN repair center. I have about 4 repair slips from this plant showing they just kept replacing the same part over and over without for ONE SECOND using common sense. IF IT DOESN'T WORK THE FIRST TIME THEN WTF MAKES YOU THINK IT'LL WORK THE OTHER 3 TIMES?!

You bunch of mindless backwards expletives.
 
I have to say that I haven't had much luck taking my MacBook into an actual Apple store, for example: the first problem that I had was that the wrist rest was cracking and they said it would take 3-5 days to repair it, with the nearest Apple store being about 20 miles (one way) away from where I live. I called Apple support on the phone and found out that MacMall (one block from where I work) is an authorized service center, I was able to take it to them, they looked at what part was needed, didn't have it in stock, so they let me take the computer home while they ordered it (came in the next day), I dropped it off at the start of Lunch, had it back at the end of Lunch.

They repair everything onsite and will do upgrades if you want (and are willing to overlook the upgrades that have been done by other people). Needless to say I always take my Apple computers there now.
 
wow this was a suspenseful thread, wish i was following it from the start :D

glad to hear everything went ok
 
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