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Apple may hate me after this, but…
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Zane Barker
Chris Borjis posted about a cooling unit being replaced. He did not talk about a liquid cooling system leaking. You have poster your own scenario, Why? Like I said the cost to replace a liquid cooling system would not be $1800.00. The Macs do not even have them. If a liquid cooling system did leak that is a totaly different scenario but we are not talking about a leaky cooling system or a laptop that fell from a tree.
The Logic board would not cost $900.00 dollars and the labor would be less than a half hour worth of labor. Some PC cases make it hard to get at the MOBO but the G5 towers make it easy to replace the logic board. Have you ever built a computer or replaced a logic board (motherboard)? Have you seen the inside of a G5 tower? They are very clean.
On a side not CompUSA, Circuit City and Best Buy all have salesmen that will tell you that you need the warranty because if the CPU goes or the MOBO goes it will be $600.00 to repalce. That is pure BS but many ignorant people believe the salesmen. The time to replace a MOBO is less than one hour at a cost of $40-60 bucks for labor at most repair shops. The cost of a decent MOBO is about $75-$150 unless you have a real highend dual CPU MOBO. Good Core 2 Dual (2.4 GHZ)CPUs can be bought for well under $150.00 and replaced for $40-50 bucks at most shops. MOBOS can be replaced for under $200.00 part an labor at most custom shops. I admit many computer techs try to rip of the customer (Apple may be one of them). I am just glad I can build my own.
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arc nevada the whole point of my post was to explain to you that it would cost more then 400-500 that you clammed it would be.
Much of my information comes from a friend that works repairing macintosh computers. When the USB port on my computer went out asked him about the repair. It takes longer then the 1/2 hour that you claim, just to do the physical repair, after that he explained that you have to re-calibrate thermal sensors and run hardware test. He said it is a fairly time consuming repair compared to most others.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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Zane,
Is your friend an idiot, retarted or dishonest? Honest PC shops do not repair a broken USB ports or even a broken IDE ports on the MOBO. Why? It would be cheaper to replace the MOBO. If they can fix it for less than $45.00 they will. Like I said people that are ignorant about computers and printers can get ripped off real easy. You were one of those people but now you know better. Would you pay $250.00 to fix a $200.00 multi function printer or would you buy a new $200.00 dollar mulitfuntion printer? Only a fool would pay $600.00 to fix a MOBO. I admit it could easily cost $250.00 to actualy fix a multi function printer because of the labor ($45.00-$50.00 per hour) but most honest technician will tell you to buy a new one. I do not doubt that Apple would charge $1900.00 dollars to fix a $1600.00 computer but you must be wise enough to know you can fix it for $1600.00 yourself just by buying a new one. What you pay for repairs and what it should actualy cost are two different prices.
Most shops only charge $40.00 to install hardrives (compUSA did it free)becuase it is easy. MOBO might be about $70.00 and CPU instals are about $50-$60. These instal only take 10-30 minutes. Don’t let Apple rip you off again.
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First off name calling only reflects poorly on you. My friend works for apple itself and told me that the part alone is $800.
I also don’t know why you keep talking about pc shops when to even get parts for mac computers you must be a authorized apple repair center.
You also bring up printers for absolutly no reason at all.
You also talk about repairing USB ports indeed of replacing the logic board. I don’t know any shop that would repair just one port that is built onto the logic board with out replacing the entire logic board.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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Zane,
Much of my information comes from a friend that works repairing macintosh computers. When the USB port on my computer went out asked him about the repair. It takes longer then the 1/2 hour that you claim, just to do the physical repair, after that he explained that you have to re-calibrate thermal sensors and run hardware test. He said it is a fairly time consuming repair compared to most others.
Zan you wrote the paragraph above. You claim you had a bad USB port on your MOBO and you claim your friend fixed it. Now you claim the USB ports on the MOBOs do not get fixed. The reason you changed your mind is because I educated you about motherboards not being fixed. Instead they are replaced because the cost of labor to fix them is more than the cost of the MOBO. The bottom line is you are the one that posted motherboards get fixed not me. I take offense to you claiming I did. You are being very disshonest.
Some of the Local PC shop around here do repair Macs. Macs and PC use the same parts, RAM, hardrive, CPU, audio card. The Mac uses a modifed Intel MOBO but they can be ordered.
I mentioned the printer scenario to prove my point. I think after reading my post you realized it is stupid to pay Apple $1800.00 to fix a $1600.00 Imac and it is stupid to pay $250.00 to fix a $200.00 printer. You should thank me for showing you the light but instead you posted miss information. Why?
Zane, if what you posted about Apple is true then you could post a response like this.
“Arc I imagine you know more about computer hardware than I do (PC and Mac). I admit the Apple Techs might have lied or at the very least exagurated the cost of repairs. Thanks for pointing that out. I learned a lot”.
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I NEVER claimed to have gotten it fixed I only said I got a quote on the cost, I decided to put the money toward a new machine.
The only thing that you have educated me on is the fact that you yourself don’t fully know what you are talking about. For example MOBO what is that, on macs they are called Main Logic Boards or MLB.
My good friend who is an Apple Certified Techniction has never even heard of them called MOBO’s
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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Motherboard and Logicboard are Apple and PC semantics. Like I said the costs you posted for repairs were way to expensive. No one would pay $1800.00 to fix a $1600.00 computer. Instead of being obnoxious you could have just agreed and said “Arc is right. It should not cost that much money to repair because they will infact replace the parts rather than fix them”. That would have been the smart thing to do. At any rate you should not have got a quote of $900.00 for your logic board as you posted.
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[arc nevada] “At any rate you should not have got a quote of $900.00 for your logic board as you posted. “
Nothing is wrong with the quote, $800 for parts and $100 for labor.
And again you keep assuming that people are paying for repair that that would cost that much, my friend says that 99% of people just put money toward a new computer. The only guy he remembers who didn’t, chose to have it repaired because he still needed classic applications and you cant run classic applications on a Intel mac.
The problem here is that you keep assuming things, your assumptions that I repaired my mac instead of just getting a quote, the assumption that people are paying that much for a repair.
Stop assuming.
[arc nevada] “Instead of being obnoxious you could have just agreed and said “Arc is right.”
Why I have no reason at all to say that. Making assumptions does not make you right, no matter how much you want to be right.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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I think your full of BS and making up silly stories because you dont want to admit I am right. Why repair an old Mac when you can buy one on ebay for less?
I am not assuming you repaired your Mac my friend. Infact I thought the whole story was BS and I was tying to point that out to you.
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Dude calm down, my story was not made up. You apparently don’t want to admit that some people may actualy choose to pay for a repair like that, I would not but apparently some people will like the guy who wanted to use clasic.
You did assume, and again I have given no BS.
Now I consider the mater closed, as it is going absolutly noware and we are just giving everybody else who comented on the origional post plently of unwanted and unneeded email in there in box.
So let’s both just STOP now!!!
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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