Hey everyone,
One and a half years ago a got a job to raise money for a macbook, and today I finaly am typing on one right now. But if it wasn't for a £130 discount by buying refurbished I wouldnt by doing this.
First of all many people think the refurbished store is second hand. if you take it literally it is but when you get the machine it comes perfectly new looking, the only diffrence is that it comes in a normal white cardboard box like below:
and when you open it it looks like this
what is refurbished?
A: it is a returned model or one which has had a fault in the production line, it is fully looked over by apple engineers and it is 100% fault free
What is the difference between refurb and new?
A: nothing really the only difference is the box and that it has actually been opened before- but the price is massive- I saved £130 buying a alu 2.0ghz MacBook.
when is the refurb store updated?
A: I talked to an apple rep. she said it is updated as the need arrives but from 2 weeks of checking the store it is updated every morning, the UK store closes at 11pm each night (the store becomes inactive) and opens at 6 the next morning- delivery is by UPS and she same protocols as a new macbook
edit: by tomorrow "One thing I would like to add - sometimes a refurb is a computer that was never even delivered to a customer. When I worked in a computer store some years ago, from time to time a customer would bring in their computer - PC or Mac - with a problem that was as simple as swapping out a bad RAM stick for a good one, or a bad drive for a good one, etc. We would pull the replacement part out of a new computer, put the replacement part in the customer's computer, then return the feeder computer to the manufacturer, who would then refurb it. Nothing sinister about it, and like I said, no customer ever even saw the computer."
if you have anyother questions post them in the replies below
I posted this because many people like me were or still confused about the refurb store and how it works
thanks for reading,
paul
One and a half years ago a got a job to raise money for a macbook, and today I finaly am typing on one right now. But if it wasn't for a £130 discount by buying refurbished I wouldnt by doing this.
First of all many people think the refurbished store is second hand. if you take it literally it is but when you get the machine it comes perfectly new looking, the only diffrence is that it comes in a normal white cardboard box like below:



what is refurbished?
A: it is a returned model or one which has had a fault in the production line, it is fully looked over by apple engineers and it is 100% fault free
What is the difference between refurb and new?
A: nothing really the only difference is the box and that it has actually been opened before- but the price is massive- I saved £130 buying a alu 2.0ghz MacBook.
when is the refurb store updated?
A: I talked to an apple rep. she said it is updated as the need arrives but from 2 weeks of checking the store it is updated every morning, the UK store closes at 11pm each night (the store becomes inactive) and opens at 6 the next morning- delivery is by UPS and she same protocols as a new macbook
edit: by tomorrow "One thing I would like to add - sometimes a refurb is a computer that was never even delivered to a customer. When I worked in a computer store some years ago, from time to time a customer would bring in their computer - PC or Mac - with a problem that was as simple as swapping out a bad RAM stick for a good one, or a bad drive for a good one, etc. We would pull the replacement part out of a new computer, put the replacement part in the customer's computer, then return the feeder computer to the manufacturer, who would then refurb it. Nothing sinister about it, and like I said, no customer ever even saw the computer."
if you have anyother questions post them in the replies below
I posted this because many people like me were or still confused about the refurb store and how it works
thanks for reading,
paul