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Finding a Macbook Pro with busted HDD, best place?
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So I'm looking to find a 15" unibody MBP for casual use around my house and on the go. Not going to be running video editing software, maybe a bit of PS + Lightroom, so I'd like to have a dedicated GPU. Processor speed doesn't matter that much, and ram can be easily upgraded by myself. Budget is $600-650
What I'm looking for is one with a fried hard drive, to get it for cheap and replace it with an SSD on my own. Anyone know of a good place to find one? I've looked on CL and ebay, but not a whole lot of luck (most "for parts" ones have water damage). I must be missing some place where someone is just giving one away because they don't know shit about PC's.
Inb4 Mac vs Windows debate.
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bump, someone has to know some distributor or someone who fixes mbp's and sells them cheap w/o hdd
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I know where you can find one
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My cousin works for his college and whenever somebody's computer gets totaled he saves the parts that still work, so about every week he ends up with a new computer that he has salvaged. It would be dope if he gave them out, but he sells them so I can't help you. Just thought Id throw that out there.
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How much does he sell them for?
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Hit up *simba*. I'm pretty sure his just went. I'm assuming this is a troll thread to get him mad. Go comment on his facebook status or something
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hahah nah its not, but it sparked this thread because someone like him would probably sell me theirs cheap if they had 0 computer knowledge
he also has a shitty non-unibody mbp so not that interested in one
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I have no idea. Don't even know his phone/email. I would imagine probably a little cheaper than an refurb. Wish i could help. I have asked him for parts before and he hasn't responded. I think 1000 bucks is a little more important to him than the good graces of a not well known cousin.
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something w/o water damage, just a hard drive failure if I can find one. I did find a good deal on a 13" MBP w/ dedicated GPU+quadcore for $700, hopefully can talk the guy down some. Otherwise I'd like to spend $600ish
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when did they make a 13 quad core?
From my experience with them, its only been dual cores in their 13 inch model.
Check out macsales.com, sometimes they toss up refurbs
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Yupp. Pre-unibody. I'm replacing my hard drive and disk drive, though.
Good luck finding one!
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