I want to be a refurb macbook for my friend, should i be worry about any problem that it could come with?
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Refurb Macbooks
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As far as I am concerned you should not have any problems with a refurb macbook. The only big difference is that it doesn't come in the same package as a brand new macbook.
I'm not sure but when you send your macbook to applecare you usually get a refurb so it is the same thing, a lot of people have refurbs.
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I think what the poster was saying was that if you buy a new Macbook, then have to have it replaced, you're getting a refurbished Macbook.
In some cases, getting a refurb item can be even better than a new one. It will have gone through more testing than just any new product coming off the line. In the case of Apple products, I can say from personal experience that the refurbished items sold through the Apple Store are like new, except for the packaging.
Unless something changes, I plan on buying refurbished Macs (directly from Apple) from now on; unless there is a need for the current model that isn't available as a refurb.
Fedex delivered my new/refurb MB yesterday. It is perfect. I am a very critical inspector, especially of manufactured / fabricated / assembled products. I am shocked how perfect it is. I have owned an earlier MB new and a later MBP new. Neither of those were as well finished a product.
This is not true. I just had my refurbished Macbook replaced because its given me so many problems. They replaced it with a brand new machine. They said they do not replace machines with refurbs due to the inability to guarantee stock of a certain model at a particular time.
History of my macbook over the last year or so
Repair #1
White spots on LCD
LCD Replaced
Received machine 15 days later. LCD was cracked when I received it
Repair #2
Sent in to repair cracked LCD. LCD was replaced
Received machine 14 days later
Repair #3
Backlight flickering and problems coming back from sleep.
Replaced logic board at apple store.
Took 3 days but problem persisted
Repair #4
Sent to Apple Repair Depot to fix same problem. Could not fix issue
On the 11th day I requested a replacement.
New $1299 machine was overnighted to replace a $899 refurb I have bought over a year ago.
Take what you will from that.
Good information -- thank you for posting that.
(I've never personally had a machine replaced by Apple under warranty, so I only know what I've read from others.)
That's not true.. I'm in the process as we speak of getting my refurb MacBook replaced and the unit Apple is sending me is another refurb.. If they can locate similarly specced refurbed units in a timely manner they'll give you a refurb- if not, they'll replace it with a brand new unit..
I've been on both sides of this- my G4 iMac was replaced with a G5 iMac when Apple couldn't locate any G4's in a timely manner..
I for one wouldn't worry at all about buying a refurb. That's how I bought the iMac that I'm typing on at the moment and I love the machine. It couldn't be better and it's a good way to save some $$$ while getting a machine that as others have mentioned has most likely been tested more thoroughly than a new unit and getting the same warranty etc.
Either way your friend goes I wish him/her many years of happiness with his/her mac
Either way your friend goes I wish him/her many years of happiness with his/her mac
I for one wouldn't worry at all about buying a refurb. That's how I bought the iMac that I'm typing on at the moment and I love the machine. It couldn't be better and it's a good way to save some $$$ while getting a machine that as others have mentioned has most likely been tested more thoroughly than a new unit and getting the same warranty etc.
Either way your friend goes I wish him/her many years of happiness with his/her mac
what he said, mine has been trouble free, am buying another this month
Well I guess it goes both ways. I think the fact that they had had my machine already for 11 days probably pushed them towards giving me a new one.
I also might be willing to put some of my repair woes on the fact that it was a Rev. A