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Need semi fast response, value of broken macbook

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oefootball70

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I am looking at buying a friends unibody macbook. His hard drive is fried. It has the 2.4 core duo. I am wanting to run 8 gb of ram and 500 gb hard drive on it. I currently run a black mac book with 2.16 core duo and I can only run 3 gb of ram.

So what do you think the value of the 1 year old unibody mac book is? With a fried hard drive? I am not trying to pull one over his head, but I am not looking to fund his entire purchase of a new one.

Thanks for the help in advanced.

OE
 
Saying that it is still in good condition, it would still be worth easily over $800, because hard drives are an easily user-replaceable item.
 
www.mac2sell.net and eBay should give you good estimates.
As the HDD is easily replaceable, it shouldn't make that much difference.

You need 250 posts and 180 days of membership to access the Marketplace, the FAQ is quite a good place to inform yourself.
And MRoogle can help you find answers in a jiffy.

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from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1080015/
 
I know I could replace it easy. But he couldn't. And I think he is wanting a new one anyways. I understand the 800 is the high end because another 100 for a good HD and you are only 99 dollars from a new one.

I could see a in good condition with good HD sell for 750 to 800 so one that a normal person would not even touch 200-300?
 
Thats exactly what I said 750 to 800.

So what do you think would be a good offer for one that is unusable and is going to take some time and money to get up and running again?
 
oefootball70 said:
Thats exactly what I said 750 to 800.

So what do you think would be a good offer for one that is unusable and is going to take some time and money to get up and running again?
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60 USD less than you would give, as getting a new HDD, 320GB can be had for 50 USD, is not really difficult and replacing the HDD should take less than ten minutes and reinstalling the OS should take around 30 minutes.
 
Okay, thanks for the ideas. I have another question dealing with this unit.

What is a logic board? Is that the mother board. If that is damaged, is it even worth dealing with?
 
I have seen hundreds of how to replace hard drives written and youtube. But the mother board I have not. Is it as easy? Or much more involved?
 
simsaladimbamba said:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Core-2-Duo-Logic-Board-Replacement/528/1
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...ody-Model-A1278-Logic-Board-Replacement/765/1
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...dy-Model-A1342-Logic-Board-Replacement/1675/1
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Okay, alot of steps: Yes

Terrible hard: No

He said he is going to reformat the hard drive... if he is able to do this. Then isn't it not the mother board. IDK what is wrong with this laptop. I wish he wasn't so far away so I could sit down and look at it.
 
If the problem can be fixed by formatting the hard drive then it isn't a hardware issue at all... You really need more info about what is wrong with it before you can offer a fair price.
 
I agree, I am going to get the phone number of the schools IT people that looked at it and see what test and what exactly they think it is.

I will let you guys know how it all plays out.
 
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