[ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?

[Jim Kinney]

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!

I'm surprised they haven't come up with a laptop subscription plan.

On Jun 2, 2017 9:11 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apple pretty much hates 3rd party repair shops (
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/28/ios_repairs/ ).  You might want
> to factor that into your decision.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Ken Cochran <kwc at shell.theworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Physical Apple stores don't have refurbished; that's all on
>> their website (http://store.apple.com/).  Stock varies all the
>> time but there's good stuff there.  That's where I get most all
>> my Apple stuff.  Apple warrants them as new and offers their
>> AppleCare as if new.  I've always been very pleased there.  -kc
>>
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>> > From: "Lightner, Jeffrey" <JLightner at dsservices.com>
>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> > Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 00:05:53 +0000
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?
>> >
>> > I don’t know but I’ll check it out.   There’s an Apple store at
>> Cumberland.
>> >
>> > Of course if its Apple doing the refurb/resell I’m guessing
>> > they’re expensive as compared to others who might do it.
>> >
>> > I wonder if MicroCenter does it – I know they at least do
>> > (or did anyway) for PCs/laptops.
>> >
>> >
>> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Jim Kinney
>> > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 6:46 PM
>> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> > Subject: Re: [ale] Reliable seller of refurbished MacBooks?
>> >
>> > Doesn't Apple have a refurbished area in their stores?
>> >
>> > On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 21:45 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
>> > My 84 year old neighbor is looking to buy a refurbished MacBook
>> > and asked me about it.
>> >
>> > I only work on Mac when she asks me about hers so was hoping
>> > someone else would know.   She isn’t interested in doing
>> > Linux.   Her main concern is to be able to print via her
>> > wireless printer.   She could do that on an older Mac she had
>> > but she got one of the MacBook air devices about a year ago and
>> > for some reason printing from that isn’t working properly.
>> > I worked with her on it for a while right after she got the
>> > MacBook Air but never could get it to print properly.
>> >
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