ssd upgrade will void warranty

[youpey]

i called applecare directly this time (last time i called the apple retail store and then 1800 myapple). i spoke with someone and they told me that the drive IS upgradeable. i even got a case number in case someone gives me grief. the only problem now, he couldnt order the drive for me, it only showed my original drive. he told me to call the apple store. so i did and they told me they only do repairs, but not the upgrades.

i guess i will try later

 

[youpey]

the saga comes to aan end...
i called apple to try to buy their ssd drive. they told me they dont sell it through them, unless on a new mbp purchase. i told them i would prefer to get the drive through apple so it is warrantied through apple. they gave me a couple of numbers of an authorized service providers and told me they can order it and install it. that apple doesnt have the drive listed for purchase on the system they had.

i know it takes 10 minutes to install, but i wanted to run this out. the first place i called said they didnt have the price of the drive and couldnt get it until monday. they did tell me they charged 150 to install the drive and 60 for data transfer.

i called another place, who looked up the price of the drive based on my serial number, and he let me know apple charges 1000 dollars for the 128gb ssd. he said it didnt sound right, but that was the price he had listed

i thanked him for his time and at least i have my answer.

aftermarket ssd, here i come

 

[couto27]

same anser for me



intel ssd 8ogb 350£ ebay.uk

 

[MikhailT]

Apple stores won't do the upgrades. Your best chance is to do it through the local authorized apple service provider. My local one will let me order any hard drive I want, bring it along with the laptop and it'll cost me 100$ fee to have them replace the hard drive with my hdd. This won't void the warranty because it has been done by an authorized server provider.

Note: my laptop is the early 2008 mbp, the hdd is definitely not user upgradable. I won't take the chance with the warranty since the replacement is intensive.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Note: my laptop is the early 2008 mbp, the hdd is definitely not user upgradable. I won't take the chance with the warranty since the replacement is intensive.

Its not that bad. I'd wager that 90% of ppl here with aftermarket HDs did so on their own, on the early models

 

[MikhailT]

Its not that bad. I'd wager that 90% of ppl here with aftermarket HDs did so on their own, on the early models

I know but if something happened to my laptop(like GPU failing) and i have to repeat the process in order to get it serviced by Apple, I rather it's authorized in their system instead of doing the extra work.
They better not change the drive either if i get it serviced. sighs.

 

[gumbyx84]

It doesn't void the warranty of any computer if the instructions are printed in the user manual; even the classic MacBook Pro computers without the instructions allow upgrading the HDD without voiding your warranty.

Actually it will. I have had Apple Geniuses tell me this, but then mentioned, off the record, that it is not hard to do if you know what you are doing. I asked the Genius that repaired my MBP's screen and he said that officially it would void your warranty, but, again off the record, you would need to be "caught", IE there must be some indication (damage for example) that shows you opened it.

 

[Patriks7]

Actually it will. I have had Apple Geniuses tell me this, but then mentioned, off the record, that it is not hard to do if you know what you are doing. I asked the Genius that repaired my MBP's screen and he said that officially it would void your warranty, but, again off the record, you would need to be "caught", IE there must be some indication (damage for example) that shows you opened it.

Yeah, it only voids the warranty if there is damage made by the user replacing it (duh )

 

[MagicWok]

This thread is useless. Can you please change the thread title...

 

[bugout]

major lulz for wanting to buy the SSD directly from apple.