Is this refurbished MacBook a good buy?

teffers

Be prepared to buy a new battery.

Around £85-£100 new or £30-40 'third party' chinese clone.

tombruton87

I would reccomend waiting till she starts uni, at that point she will be able to add some money with her student loan. Also at that point she will have a clearer picture of the software that is used on her course photoshop is a given. But she might need alot windows programs. also she could get a refurb off apple for around650/700 for a macbook pro probs 2011. Apple refurbs are really good new casing on them aswell. just get a plain brown box instead of a pretty one on delivery

Figment

For the record, the choice of operating system (Ubuntu v Windows) is for Maple branded machines only.

fishybusiness

No there isn't. It is a design and material flaw. If it wasn't, why did Apple issue a statement to their repairers to to tell them to fix them outside of warranty for free?

Yes, and when making a choice I would be happier knowing that potentially a piece of plastic may fail off the side of my macbook, rather than wondering when the nVidia chip is going to fail.

Incidentally, my Macbook has that very same fault, and I shall be using it like that for years to come. How much use can you get out of a Macbook Pro with a failed video chip?

Another Pro shortcoming is the cooling, and the way the fans spin up to max speed and stay there, especially when using Flash intensive apps. Newer Pro's are much better, but Dual Core versions are terrible. hence the Coolbook app.

Macbook Pro's are great, I've owned those too, just because they are aluminium it does not make them immune to other faults, and anyone considering a second hand purchase should know about their shortcomings when considering "Pro or not Pro'.

As I said, there is more to it than you suggested.

wba31

Notmyrealname wrote: »

No there isn't. It is a design and material flaw. If it wasn't, why did Apple issue a statement to their repairers to to tell them to fix them outside of warranty for free?



http://macs.about.com/b/2009/04/08/apple-to-repair-cracked-white-macbooks.htm

This happened to my wife's, my sister's and my brother in law's macbooks... same crack, same place.

but it doesnt effect the insides of the macbook...

jaybeetoo

Apple sell refurbished Macs at their online store. I can't publish the link because this forum thinks I might be a spammer!!

Anyway, go the the Apple dot com / UK web site, click on Store and you'll see links to the refurbished stuff down the bottom left under Special Deals.

They come with a one year warranty.

I bought a refurbished Apple TV a year or so ago and it looked brand new.

phoneguy

Would I trust a company that registered the domain name just 8 months ago? Not sure I would.......

Registered on: 28-Nov-2011

Running on a shared server with a ton of other sites. All looks a bit suss to me:

http://www.my-ip-neighbors.com/?domain=85.159.56.226

buglawton

Would you trust a company called Comet or Currys?

phoneguy

buglawton wrote: »

Would you trust a company called Comet or Currys?

Certainly more than I'd trust some outfit with a template website, running on a cheap shared host, with a domain name a few months old registered through 123-reg.

But if that's not enough to make me think 'this is a bit fishy', the fact the domain name is registered to an address owned by Access Self Storage in Sutton, Surrey, would set my alarm bells ringing in peels.

In fact, their website describes it

Maple's warehouse is based in South London.

Full UK Address:
Maple UK
107 Westmead Road
Sutton, Surrey
SM1 4JD

And here it is:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=SM1+4JD&hl=en&ll=51.366275,-0.180007&spn=0.000583,0.001206&safe=off&hnear=SM1+4JD,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.366221,-0.179941&panoid=G8s60uBJXUqjrOb4uLWP0A&cbp=12,319.97,,0,-2.6

If you should still have *any* doubt at all, the website for Access Self Storage gives the same address:

http://www.accessstorage.com/Find-a-Store/Sutton/

buglawton

Hmm on that basis much of the online shopping I've done would never have happened. I'm always willing to give new suppliers a go, so long as the payment acceptance method is either Paypal or Credit Card but NOT inside their own website but externally e.g. Protex or Sagepay.