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Apple Silicon iMacs appear to suffer from screen deterioration after two years — flood of user complaints hit Apple Community forums (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just bought myself a late 2011 17" MacBook Pro, it was listed as untested but I took the gamble... Yeah, its logic board turned out to be dead.

I bought far older ThinkPads for less money that worked perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Imo untested always means dead. Especially when it is something easy to test - like a laptop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, probably should have seen that coming to be fair. Especially since the A1297s are so prone to failure.

It's just that confirmed working ones are still so goddamn expensive and I kinda wanted to have one but not enough to drop 200€ on it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rule of thumb when buying electronics (or anything for that matter) is buy it cheap, buy it twice.

Nervously looks at the 10€/TB refurbished drives that just arrived

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

70€ isn't cheap for a laptop from 2011, to me at least...

But I get what you mean, 10€ per TB sounds too good to be true :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

PS3s regularly go for €115 so I guess it's not that surprising. It's about demand, if a lot of people want one then it doesn't really matter how old it is.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I would be extremely skeptical of buying something listed as untested. How hard is it to test if a Mac works you just turn it on if it doesn't turn on it's broken. It takes like 30 seconds.

However if you turn it on and it's broken but you don't want to sell it for parts you can always just sell it as "untested".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I guess not everyone has Magsafe 1 adapters lying around...