<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">Long-time reader, first time poster here. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">As others mentioned, Apple has a "refurbished" section on their online store. Their refurbishing process is very good, I've heard they replace the outer shell and battery on the laptop. So, the machine will be in ~new condition with a discounted price.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac">https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac</a></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">All repairs cut into sales. If they (and pretty much all other 'sellers of things' ) had their way, a macbook would be a solid block of epoxy to totally block any repairs. Drive fail? Buy new! Stuck key? Buy new! Wrong color? Buy new!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm surprised they haven't come up with a laptop subscription plan.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 2, 2017 9:11 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Apple pretty much hates 3rd party repair shops ( <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/ios_repairs/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2<wbr>014/03/28/ios_repairs/</a> ). You might want to factor that into your decision.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Ken Cochran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwc@shell.theworld.com" target="_blank">kwc@shell.theworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Physical Apple stores don't have refurbished; that's all on<br>
their website (<a href="http://store.apple.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://store.apple.com/</a>). Stock varies all the<br>
time but there's good stuff there. That's where I get most all<br>
my Apple stuff. Apple warrants them as new and offers their<br>
AppleCare as if new. I've always been very pleased there. -kc<br>
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> From: "Lightner, Jeffrey" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>><br>
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<span>> Subject: Re: [ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?<br>
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> I don’t know but I’ll check it out. There’s an Apple store at Cumberland.<br>
><br>
> Of course if its Apple doing the refurb/resell I’m guessing<br>
> they’re expensive as compared to others who might do it.<br>
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> I wonder if MicroCenter does it – I know they at least do<br>
> (or did anyway) for PCs/laptops.<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney<br>
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</span><span>> Doesn't Apple have a refurbished area in their stores?<br>
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> On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 21:45 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:<br>
> My 84 year old neighbor is looking to buy a refurbished MacBook<br>
> and asked me about it.<br>
><br>
> I only work on Mac when she asks me about hers so was hoping<br>
> someone else would know. She isn’t interested in doing<br>
> Linux. Her main concern is to be able to print via her<br>
> wireless printer. She could do that on an older Mac she had<br>
> but she got one of the MacBook air devices about a year ago and<br>
> for some reason printing from that isn’t working properly.<br>
> I worked with her on it for a while right after she got the<br>
> MacBook Air but never could get it to print properly.<br>
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