I’m back up and running. This post is being written on my repaired MacBook Pro!
Wednesday night (9/23) the status of my laptop changed from “On hold” to “Repaired”. And to my surprise this morning I saw that it was out on a FedEx truck for delivery to my house. Apple had shipped it overnight from their repair facility in Texas!
Upon opening the laptop, it showed two items as being repaired:
605-1791 Logic Board (No Video)
616-0261 Battery (Runtime Too Short)
I had never noticed that my battery runtime was too short, but then I don’t use the MacBook Pro on battery all that often. Considering it is a $129 part, I’m more than pleased that they replaced it. They certainly didn’t have to. Although not mentioned on the invoice it also looks like they fixed the latch which has been giving me problems ever since I replaced the hard drive.
Although it took 2 full weeks for the repair, it didn’t cost me anything (other than lost time). I have no idea if another computer manufacturer would have covered the NVIDIA chip defect for free, but I’m glad Apple does.
It’s good to have 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo goodness with 6GB RAM back. The original Core Duo CPU is much slower, especially with the tiny 2GB RAM maximum.
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I’m glad you got your machine back. I ordered a 4GB stick and it came the other day. 6GB IS nice! Although, with REALbasic open and running XP, Vista, and 7, it still dumped 1GB to virtual memory. Not quite sure why OS X did that.
PS: If you don’t run on battery every once in awhile, you’re battery will actually have a shorter life.