My PowerBook may be giving up the ghost. Very sad, but expected, since the AppleCare just ran out January 1! I think the logic board may have partially gotten fried by a power surge. That’s my best guess, any way. The powerbook won’t charge, even though the light sometimes comes on the connector. So I used it as much as I could with my two batteries, then I made an appointment for the apple store. Then I didn’t make the appointment, because something else worked out…
Now the dilemma comes… Do I try to fix it, or do I part it out?
I’ll make some of you very envious now…
I had saved up a little for either a macmini, a monitor, and a wireless keyboard/mouse, or an imac. I was going to buy one of the nice little refurbs on the mac site. Well, with my warranty running out, I had been pondering waiting a little to buy a refurb’d macbook pro (17″ to replace my 17″ powerbook). Well, with the problems I had today, paired with the fact that I have work I absolutely have to do this weekend, I decided to check out Frye’s and see what they had…
I found an open boxed Macbook Pro, 17″, 2.16 intel core duo for …. 1600 dollars. That’s a pretty darned good price. Of course with the open box thing, it was returned, so I could end up finding some problems myself (I’m hoping it was just returned for a non-hardware issue). It stretches me extremely thin, since I only had about a thousand budget for a new computer. But thankfully I was already looking to buy a new computer, because in my web business I obviously can’t afford to be computerless even for a short time.
And, if I find a buyer for my powerbook or if I part it out, I think I’ll at least make up the difference. After all, it had a new screen put in last July, courtesy of Apple Care, it has a working superdrive which could be sold, the 80 gig hard drive is fine, and it has 756mb of ram I could sell, too.
Of course, if someone wanted to buy it as is for 700 bucks (the screen alone even used is worth that… buying one new is a ridiculous 1400 bucks, or so I was told by Apple when I had trouble with mine last year). I’ll probably put it on ebay as is and see what happens. But if any of you out there are interested, I’ll give you dibs. And it might be just be the power adapter, though the symptoms suggest something internally to me. I’m going to get it checked out this weekend and try to find what it would cost to fix.
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