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What method do I get this repaired?

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vtgeek

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Sep 21, 2012
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This is sort of joke thread and sort of serious. A client of mine several years ago drove a mile with her MacBook Pro 15 2012 on her roof. If fell and smashed on the pavement and the screen got ripped off. It was open and flew into a ditch.

Anyways there was a little bit of the screen left when it was found.

My client already purchased a replacement computer after looking along the road for a bit without finding it. It was about 25 feet from the road when located. Their backup was restored aside from a few files. Luckily for them they found the machine, I got the files that were not backed up restored and everything was great.

They had no desire to get the machine back and they even left me with a working 512GB SSD after I returned their updated files back to them.

After the job was done and the data was safe, I decided to power the thing up. I knew the SSD and OS were good as I put it into another 2012 retina. What did I have to loose? Anyways it powered up amazingly. This was 2 years ago and its been working perfectly well as my "tv computer" ever since. HDMI and thunderbolt port works fine as does the left USB.

So I was thinking geesh its still working. I will happily pay Tier 4 service to get it rebuilt. Last time my dad spilled OJ all over his MacBook it was $850. Do you think they'd still service it? I have a serial number and a totally working logic board.

So the question is, do I mail it in or show up at an apple store with a monitor to show it works, with some cosmetic issues..... Its 130 miles to an apple store however.

What do you think they'd do?
 

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zarathu said:
You would have to make an appointment at the Apple Store. It would be fun to drive 2.5 hours to see the look on the tech guy's face.
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Tho look on who ever helps me's face is what I'm looking forward to seeing.
 
It's 90% salvageable.

All you need to do is to get a new top case and new display.

So that's ~$400 total.

Follow this instruction:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBoo...Mid+2012+Upper+Case+Assembly+Replacement/9736

It should take you about 2 hours.
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Fishrrman said:
Not worth it.
Use it "as it is", for whatever you can get out of it.
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$400 doesn't seem that bad.

Patcell said:
It is going to cost WAY more than the machine is worth to have it repaired. Very cool that it still works though!
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Well, I think the laptop is worth more than $400.
 
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Definitely worth it in my opinion. Repair it yourself though or take it to a place that isn't Apple authorised. Apple might fix it but I suspect their rates wouldn't be quite to your liking. You sound like you know what you're doing though, so a new top case and new screen it is.

Certainly impressive though and even if you just use it as-is (headless) you've still got yourself a very decent machine there.
 
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