[Smith2287]

Well last night I went to turn on my macbook pro and it was making funny nosies and a little file with a question mark came up and the computer would not boot up. So i sent it to a computer tech and he told me right away the hard drive is shot. To get a new one its about $300. The computer is a little over two years old and little did I know out of apple care which only lasts two years. The tech recremended to purcahse a new computer rather than fix a old model which might have further problems than the hard drive. So my question to you guys is which laptop to look into. I was looking into the dell xps 1530 simply because its small and powerful like the macbook. I found online that dell offers discount codes that take off 25% if the computer is over 1500 and this sounds like a good deal. So do any of you have and xps or another good laptop that i should purcahse.

Sorry for the rant,

-Corey

[Mindflux]

Applecare (if you bought the extended warranty) lasts 3 years from the purchase date (or two years from the factory warranty expiry).

I think either:
A) If you bought Apple care you are still in warranty.
or
B) Spend the 300 (it should be less, really) to get a new drive. That is still a viable laptop even if it is 3 years of age.
or
C) Get a new notebook, send the MBP to me and I'll put in a new hard drive and surf happily into oblivion.



If you have your Serial # handy punch it into this:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do

It'll tell you what's up.

[Smith2287]

Originally Posted by Mindflux

Applecare (if you bought the extended warranty) lasts 3 years from the purchase date (or two years from the factory warranty expiry).

I think either:
A) If you bought Apple care you are still in warranty.
or
B) Spend the 300 (it should be less, really) to get a new drive. That is still a viable laptop even if it is 3 years of age.
or
C) Get a new notebook, send the MBP to me and I'll put in a new hard drive and surf happily into oblivion.



If you have your Serial # handy punch it into this:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do

It'll tell you what's up.

THanks for the promt reply, I didnt purcahse the extended applecare sadly and I am just out of the 2 year factory warranty. I was told that if it other problems than the hard drive it icould cost a lot to get it fixed. Maybe I will get it fixxed and hope its jsut the hard drive. The computer is a little bit beat up since I have pretty much brought it with me everywhere I went other than on a detail since the first day I got it. So that is my worry that I have additional problems.

[sneek]

That sucks! I don't know what I would do without my MBP. I use time machine to keep everything backed up, so I am ready for something like this to happen. I know a girl that had a hard drive failure on her regular macbook. I think that maybe some of the hard drives aren't so great on MBPs. Which hard drive did you have in it?

[Chris]

buy a replacement HD and reimage the system there is no need to pay 300 for the drive. You are looking at around $100 for a new HD and then you just need to do a re-image with the Disks you should already have.

[Smith2287]

Im not sure i think it is a 120 gb hd and i know it has the2.36 intel core duo processor in it. I went to best buy tonight to look at the computers and the only ones I liked were all the apple models lol. I am bringing it to the apple store tomorrow to get the problem properly tested. But according to the site I am out of warranty so im in the hands of apple tomorrrow. If it is not worth to get it fixed looks like im getting the macbook air as this is a cool very mobile laptop. But I am hoping it is just a sinmple hard drive swap and I will just have to deal with losing all my files.

Thanks,
-Corey

[littlemissGTO]

Other world computing is your friend.

[Nica]

Oooh that's not good But you know $300 is really not that much, $300 seems a bit high for a hard drive but a new Mac is a bit more then $300 but like you said what if it's $300 this time, then $400, then $500...ect..ect..I see your point.

The Macbook air is a cool machine how much are those bad boys anyways? After my Macbook Pro purchase I'm not looking forward to purchasing another one, well any time soon that is

Keep us posted how you make out, I'm quite curious...just in case I happen to go through the same issues, never know....but I did buy the extended warranty on my Mac

[kaval]

I have had extremely bad luck with my MacBook. So glad to have the extended AppleCare warranty.

If you want to look into something more durable, I would recommend checking out the IBM notebooks. I abused one in university for 2 years straight and it laughed at everything I gave it.

[Nica]

Originally Posted by kaval

I have had extremely bad luck with my MacBook. So glad to have the extended AppleCare warranty.

If you want to look into something more durable, I would recommend checking out the IBM notebooks. I abused one in university for 2 years straight and it laughed at everything I gave it.

Really, what kind of problems were you having kaval, with your MacBook that is. Just curious. I honestly couldn't find any dirt on the MacBook's when I was looking into purchasing mine.