Worst Mac Day Ever… Fix or buy new….

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Worst Mac Day Ever… Fix or buy new….

Posted by Harry Pallenberg on September 5, 2006 at 10:22 pm

Ok – my personal Mac (dual 1.8 G5 PCI-X version) blew up— logic board is done & gone…. apple care expired… by just about a month….
Apple store says a new logic boad installed is $1080. Curious about how many of you would pony up for the fix, or pony up more for a new mac pro… yes I’ll have to buy more ram – guess I will not need another external sata card as the new mac will hold all my formerly external drives….

Anyone kwanna buy a G5 with a cooked logic board?

Oh and to top it off…. my work G5 start-up drive dies today too… at least thats cheap & easy… thanks god for backing-up…. but it was a pain to haul 2 G5’s to the store…

Thanks for letting me vent… let me know if you want my hands of mac death to touch your machine…

Thanks,
Harry.

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Harry Pallenberg replied 19 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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Bob Woodhead
September 5, 2006 at 10:38 pm

STAY AWAAAAYYYYYYYYY…… 😉

sorry to hear the woes, mate.
Jeff Carpenter
September 6, 2006 at 12:41 am

I’d at least check google to see if there are Mac repair shops near you. Give them a call and ask for a quote to fix it. Might as well get a 2nd opinion.

But yeah, if it’s gonna be that much, just scrap it.

You can salvage the hard drives, at least, unless you’re looking to fill the MacPro up with 2 TB and don’t need your old drives.

I bet the RAM is worth something on E-Bay too. Check Crucial.com to see what it goes for new and judge from that on how much to charge for it.

As for the casing? Well, the Mac-Aquarium guys don’t seem to have a G5 on their page yet…I bet you could really blow them away!

https://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/MacAquarium/index.shtml

Or how about a mailbox?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldust/88847257/in/pool-tuawrigs/
Simon Carlson-thies
September 6, 2006 at 4:25 am

Did you look into just getting the logic board and installing it yourself… which is certainly not for everyone…

Simon Carlson-Thies
Harry Pallenberg
September 6, 2006 at 8:29 pm

A local place in LA says they can do it for $675 – so I’m gong with them….

the fish tank is a good idea too, but the hole on the G5 make me think its more suited to a snake tank….

I guess I could try and actually make it into a cheese grater…

Thanks,
Harry.

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