My New MacBook Pro...

[SimonMoles]

Was great, until yesterday.

I was going fine, loving it a lot (My first Mac!). Then, yesterday, I heard a loud pop from the power supply. Turns out that in the past few hours, the power supply had been malfunctioning, not charging my MacBook, so when I switched from Windows to Leopard (Bootcamp) it just shut down!

I took the power supply to an "Apple Certified" repair centre, and they said the transformer was busted, and ordered a replacement.

So... was good while it lasted Now I've got to wait until next week to get it working again

 

[nick9191]

Ah nevermind these things happen

 

[SimonMoles]

I wish I knew why it broke though... was it just manufactured badly, or was it something to do with the plug I used?

Anyone elses power supplies just stopped working?

 

[a4abt]

while you are waiting for the replacement, you could buy one from Best Buy and return it when you'll receive the new one from Apple.

 

[hotsauce]

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while you are waiting for the replacement, you could buy one from Best Buy and return it when you'll receive the new one from Apple.

That's a bit unethical. Why not just buy another one as a backup? I have three, for the road, office and bedroom.

 

[snaky69]

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That's a bit unethical. Why not just buy another one as a backup? I have three, for the road, office and bedroom.

A computer in the bedroom is usually bad juju if you have any intentions of reproducing one day.

 

[Eric.]

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That's a bit unethical. Why not just buy another one as a backup? I have three, for the road, office and bedroom.

Actually, its Best Buy. Perfectly ethical.

 

[hotsauce]

A computer in the bedroom is usually bad juju if you have any intentions of reproducing one day.

That's OK. I'll just adopt one from Africa and return it when it turns 16

 

[rychencop]

check the voltage on your outlet also.

i can't believe they did not just give you another brick. "we'll order one"...that suxs!!!
my mighty mouse took a crap and i got one the very next day via fedex air. awesome service!!!

 

[dallas112678]

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That's a bit unethical. Why not just buy another one as a backup? I have three, for the road, office and bedroom.

Ya i have 3 also because of all the times ive had to send my MBP back by itself so now i have all these OSX disks and powercords lol.

 

[SimonMoles]

i can't believe they did not just give you another brick. "we'll order one"...that suxs!!!
my mighty mouse took a crap and i got one the very next day via fedex air. awesome service!!!

I have to go and pick it up when it arrives, they tried to charge me £30 for shipping! Its not an actual Apple store, only an authorised maintenance centre.


Now I've got my macbook on my desk, closed lid, no use to anyone

 

[Scott6666]

while you are waiting for the replacement, you could buy one from Best Buy and return it when you'll receive the new one from Apple.

Where we are, Best Buy will charge you 15% for an open box return. A $300 rental fee for 14 days use (on a base MacbookPro) is a bit expensive don't ya think?

I guess I can now see why BB has to have such fees - which is a real nuisance to those who would like to try out a laptop before committing. Your crappy ethics DOES screw it up for the rest of us.

 

[Scott6666]

Actually, its Best Buy. Perfectly ethical.

Best Buy has always been nice to me. Much better than Circuit City or Compusa - and you can see how well they did in the market.

MicroCenter is the best but BB is actually very good IMHO.

 

[kellen]

Where we are, Best Buy will charge you 15% for an open box return. A $300 rental fee for 14 days use (on a base MacbookPro) is a bit expensive don't ya think?

I guess I can now see why BB has to have such fees - which is a real nuisance to those who would like to try out a laptop before committing. Your crappy ethics DOES screw it up for the rest of us.

He's talking about just buying a power cord, not a whole machine.

 

[rychencop]

I have to go and pick it up when it arrives, they tried to charge me £30 for shipping! Its not an actual Apple store, only an authorised maintenance centre.


Now I've got my macbook on my desk, closed lid, no use to anyone

always call applecare when something like that happens. lesson learned anyway...good luck with the problems.

 

[dmarch]

I think the idea was to buy the power supply at BB, then return the new one from Apple to BB when it arrived. I don't see any ethics issue with that.

 

[a4abt]

Actually, its Best Buy. Perfectly ethical.

exactly ... plus it's their policy (30 days return). Why not use it? I'm not saying to "happy-box" the power supply, just return the functional one when you receive your replacement from Apple.