Sometimes you have to really love Apple

[Ccrew]

Have an older 15" MBP, last of the non-unibodies that I handed down to my son. Will be 4 years old in February.

Suffered the dreaded NVidia logic board failure yesterday, so figured what the heck, I'd make a genius bar appointment this evening and at the worst all they could say was "sucks to be you"

Now it's in for replacement of the logic board with a work authorization for $492.41 with a total cost to me of $0. Recall or not, I can't think of another computer manufacturer that will do $500 worth of repairs on a 4 year old computer for free.

 

[ERIC273]

Have an older 15" MBP, last of the non-unibodies that I handed down to my son. Will be 4 years old in February.

Suffered the dreaded NVidia logic board failure yesterday, so figured what the heck, I'd make a genius bar appointment this evening and at the worst all they could say was "sucks to be you"

Now it's in for replacement of the logic board with a work authorization for $492.41 with a total cost to me of $0. Recall or not, I can't think of another computer manufacturer that will do $500 worth of repairs on a 4 year old computer for free.

I am sure Nvidia is paying a Hefty sum for the faulty chips! And the limit is 4 tears anyway but knowing apple I am sure they'd do it anyways! How olds your son? I thought he was 4 years old!

 

[Ccrew]

How olds your son? I thought he was 4 years old!

Must be thinking of someone different My kids are Girl 22yo, Boy 20yo and Girl 19yo.

No way would I survive a 4 year old!

 

[GuitarG20]

Must be thinking of someone different My kids are Girl 22yo, Boy 20yo and Girl 19yo.

No way would I survive a 4 year old!

hehe, look at your OP. it almost looks like you said you gave the computer to a 4 year old. That's how I read it the first time, now i know it's the computer that's 4.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

No way would I survive a 4 year old!

Seems like you've already survived 3 of them

 

[thundersteele]

Now it's in for replacement of the logic board with a work authorization for $492.41 with a total cost to me of $0. Recall or not, I can't think of another computer manufacturer that will do $500 worth of repairs on a 4 year old computer for free.

Well, I agree that it's probably more than any other manufacturer would do. I still find it laughable that they sell faulty hardware for more than $3000 (that's what my MBP did cost in 2008), and instead of making a factory recall and fixing it, they tell you to wait until it breaks.

Even worse, when it finally breaks, they replace it with the same faulty hardware...

And I bet many people just throw away their broken 2008 models, because they don't know about the extended warranty.

Maybe after 7 years we will get replacements... like with the iPod nano I'm keeping my machine!

 

[cole01]

Haha funny that you post about this. I just had the same model MacBook pro's logic board replaced. Because of this recall program I didn't have to pay a dime. I was accepting and willing to pay for an expensive repair as I really like the computer for nostalgic's sake even though I've moved onto my more powerful unibody. I must say though, it's withstood the test of time and still runs 10.6 very smoothly.

 

[yusukeaoki]

Sometimes you have to love apple?
You mean you always have to love Apple!

 

[alphaod]

Apple replaced by fault Early 2008 MacBook Pro with a new one after one repair.

 

[Mark-Technology]

You always should love Apple!

My 5 day old Macbook Pro was facing casual problems like beach balling which was my fault, but I decided to go to Apple and they didn't even check the system-just gave me a new one. All I told them was the problems I was facing and they said that since you bought it not nearly long ago, they'll give me a new one.

I was so delighted.

Mark

 

[yousifabdullah]

Have an older 15" MBP, last of the non-unibodies that I handed down to my son. Will be 4 years old in February.

Suffered the dreaded NVidia logic board failure yesterday, so figured what the heck, I'd make a genius bar appointment this evening and at the worst all they could say was "sucks to be you"

Now it's in for replacement of the logic board with a work authorization for $492.41 with a total cost to me of $0. Recall or not, I can't think of another computer manufacturer that will do $500 worth of repairs on a 4 year old computer for free.

I had an even better experience

I'm typing this message on my MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2008), the first unibody MacBook Pro. During its lifespan of 3 years, it underwent three hardware repairs (two logic board replacements and one battery replacement). After a newly confirmed issue with the screen and calling AppleCare, I was transferred to Apple Customer Relations where I was told that I'm eligible for a replacement.

Apple was even kind enough to upgrade me to the hi-res antiglare display for no extra cost. In essence, I'm being upgraded from the first unibody MacBook Pro to the very latest offering, a standard configuration MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2011). Just waiting for the order confirmation to pop up in my inbox... Sometimes you have to really love Apple, I agree.