February 11, 2010 at 14:27Fix Your MacBook or SuperDrive for 18,000
He came to me in the early morning, a good friend from the States. He, like me, is a Mac OS X lover and an ardent fan and fan of Apple, unlike me. During our conversations, we had to rewrite something to disk. They found the disk, inserted it into its new MacBook and ...
It should be noted that my friend SuperDrive did not use the drive at all.
... the disc inside began to hum and make strange sounds and was ready to explode.with happiness
Thinking that we got a fake Verbation disc, we started trying other discs, including macbook ones. The result was one - the drive did not work.
The laptop was under warranty, and we carried it to the nearest service center. When viewed in the service center, Oh HORROR! Found a slight pressing (indentation?) On the body, which I could not catch with my D40x DSLR, and it was eaten noticeably by eye.
In about two weeks! a nice girl calls me and says:
- Sorry, we cannot replace the DVD drive under warranty, since you have a BLOW! on the case, and this is not a warranty case.
The thought flashed through my head: “Well, okay, figs with him” - and I ask
- How much will a paid replacement for a DVD drive cost, and I was ready to part with up to 5,000 rubles, remembering that macbooks are not cheap here.
The girl tells me with a joyful note in her voice
- Replacing a DVD drive will cost you 18,000 rubles. ($ 600) This is half a laptop.
Honestly, I did not expect this amount to put it mildly, thoughts ran up diagonally somewhere, and the brain, with "great joy", began to slowly drain down the back into the left boot.
Not believing in my “happiness”, I took the laptop and gave it to another company, the result was the same, only the price was already, a little lower - 17500 rubles.
As a result, the replacement of SuperDrive on the MacBook, after wandering around in services, resulted in a minimum of 16,000 rubles.
A friend measured himself and said that he didn’t need a drive in general, and when needed, he would buy an external one, I didn’t want to give up and started looking ...
After searching, I found SuperDrive on ebay for a ridiculous price, only $ 40 (1200 rubles) with free shipping.
When the drive was delivered, I was replaced, but before that the drive is in my crooked hands! fell already two times <_ <but! It works fine and stable. View on Yandex.Photos Checking the operation of SuperDrive with a Ubuntu disk View on Yandex.Fotki The conclusion is simple: Check and use your macbook to the fullest during the warranty period, most importantly without physical damage. Do not be afraid to disassemble and repair the equipment yourself! In the most difficult cases, find friends who can hold a screwdriver. This story happened to me two times. Once at the end of June, and the second at the end of November 2009. The second time I was ready for prices, and I can say that they are not much different from the first time.
PS I did not begin to upload all the photos of the parsing process here, if interested, that is, on the yandex blog.
It should be noted that my friend SuperDrive did not use the drive at all.
... the disc inside began to hum and make strange sounds and was ready to explode.
Thinking that we got a fake Verbation disc, we started trying other discs, including macbook ones. The result was one - the drive did not work.
The laptop was under warranty, and we carried it to the nearest service center. When viewed in the service center, Oh HORROR! Found a slight pressing (indentation?) On the body, which I could not catch with my D40x DSLR, and it was eaten noticeably by eye.
In about two weeks! a nice girl calls me and says:
- Sorry, we cannot replace the DVD drive under warranty, since you have a BLOW! on the case, and this is not a warranty case.
The thought flashed through my head: “Well, okay, figs with him” - and I ask
- How much will a paid replacement for a DVD drive cost, and I was ready to part with up to 5,000 rubles, remembering that macbooks are not cheap here.
The girl tells me with a joyful note in her voice
- Replacing a DVD drive will cost you 18,000 rubles. ($ 600) This is half a laptop.
Honestly, I did not expect this amount to put it mildly, thoughts ran up diagonally somewhere, and the brain, with "great joy", began to slowly drain down the back into the left boot.
Not believing in my “happiness”, I took the laptop and gave it to another company, the result was the same, only the price was already, a little lower - 17500 rubles.
As a result, the replacement of SuperDrive on the MacBook, after wandering around in services, resulted in a minimum of 16,000 rubles.
A friend measured himself and said that he didn’t need a drive in general, and when needed, he would buy an external one, I didn’t want to give up and started looking ...
After searching, I found SuperDrive on ebay for a ridiculous price, only $ 40 (1200 rubles) with free shipping.
When the drive was delivered, I was replaced, but before that the drive is in my crooked hands! fell already two times <_ <but! It works fine and stable. View on Yandex.Photos Checking the operation of SuperDrive with a Ubuntu disk View on Yandex.Fotki The conclusion is simple: Check and use your macbook to the fullest during the warranty period, most importantly without physical damage. Do not be afraid to disassemble and repair the equipment yourself! In the most difficult cases, find friends who can hold a screwdriver. This story happened to me two times. Once at the end of June, and the second at the end of November 2009. The second time I was ready for prices, and I can say that they are not much different from the first time.
PS I did not begin to upload all the photos of the parsing process here, if interested, that is, on the yandex blog.