I’ve had my share of problems with my black Macbook!! Two hard disk crashes (one was before I got Time Machine and was not pleasant) and now a swollen battery. The first symptom was that I found my trackpad was behaving weird – keys sticking, cursor jumping all over the place. A little search led me to this – and that’s when I realised the problem is with the swollen battery pushing up on the trackpad!
Each time I’ve had a problem with my hard disks, I have got immediate replacements since I have the Apple Care Protection Plan but it’s going to expire in October, after three years. It’s great to deal with Apple Support really for these issues – tech support really knows their stuff, and take no time to decide it’s time to replace parts. More, their service centre folk in Mumbai are cool too – place a call to them, they actually pickup from and deliver back to my home. When my hard disk crashed last year, I had the old OS – and the service centre guys actually loaded Leopard for me, and gave me a CD too. For free.
I got the swollen battery picked up today, and they’ve promised to send me a new one tomorrow. Through all this, I’ve not had to pay a single paise! But after October I will have to – perhaps it’s time to buy a new Mac. With my kind of luck (and perhaps rough usage) it won’t be worth keeping my 3-year old Macbook going without the Protection Plan!
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I have had my black Mac since August 2007, without the APP, where I had a motherboard changed within the first year, thank god(that too because I used to play with the VGA port without turning my Mac off)!
Other than that nothing.
The fact that I still have Tiger on it should count for something, because it has been perfect so far.
You should buy a new one and pass this one to me
the mac is great till you have warranty…i paid an utterly ridiculous sum of money to get my hard disk replaced a couple of months ago! lucky you’re still covered!
Cheers!
Hephail – that’s so cool! good luck with it. I just upgraded to snow leopard and its fantastic, after some initial software hiccups
Hahaha Mustafa!! No free lunches
Manan – am sorry you had to pay that much – my cover expires this month, so fingers crossed!