anybody purchased a refurbished Mac Desktop?

**formerly galenaskater** · 13.11.2009, 11:36

I'm considering buying a desktop to keep in my room and i'd like to stick with mac. Anybody have experience with buying a refurbished Mac desktop? This computer would be used primarily for Final Cut Pro Studio 6 and i already have a 2tb external hard drive for a scratch capture. Any recomendations?

**JoeyViola** · 13.11.2009, 11:39

If you buy a refurb from apple they are basically brand new. you wont have any problems with it I wouldnt imagine.

**greg is cool** · 13.11.2009, 11:42

i bought my 24' imac refurb and its been awesome. it looked and worked brand new, and has been great for a year now. i got the apple care for it, so for 3 years if anything ever breaks they will come to my house to fix it, so just get that and ur covered. id reccomend doing it to save a few bucks for sure, it saved me enough to get the warranty and airport router.

**DanielBond** · 13.11.2009, 11:53

I bought my Macbook off the refurbished site 3 years ago. It went faulty a few times in the first year but apple sorted that shit out reasonably quick. No data loss or anything, but a complete new motherboard and case.

GET APPLE CARE!

Macs DO break and if you don't have apple care, when it breaks after 1 year which IT WILL you will be gutted.

**formerly galenaskater** · 13.11.2009, 12:01

applecare is must. i have 3 years worth on my macbook pro and wouldn't have it anyother way. did you guys purchased refurbished macs direct from the mac website or from a 3rd party seller like an ebay store?

**DanielBond** · 13.11.2009, 12:02

I got mine from Apple online. It got delivered in 22 hours.

**CommonSense01** · 13.11.2009, 12:07

My macbook broke 3 months after my AppleCare ran out. They charged me a flat fee of $280 and after closer inspection ended up replacing 7 parts for me.

-Hard drive
-Super drive
-Display Bezel
-Main Logic Board
-Battery
-Video Inverter
-Other miscellaneous parts

**greg is cool** · 13.11.2009, 12:08

apple store, wouldnt do ebay, they r not gonna do the same refurb process apple does, they make that shit look and feel brand new.

**Patrick** · 13.11.2009, 13:10

I bought a refurb macbook and after 2 weeks it crashed rendering my HDD gone.

They gave me another one.. Bam same thing. Finally they let me pay the difference and get a new MBP. Worked fine. This was all at an apple store.

Also I've bought 2 refurbed imacs. One from an apple store and one from bestbuy.

I'm on the one from bestbuy right now. It was the best deal. Its a 2nd gen aluminum. They had just came out and some one bought it and couldn't handle the "switch" so brought it back to a non- apple BB. They put it on the self. I talked to a manager about it and got it for $975 including tax when new about 4 days ago it was a 1300 imac. Since it was a non-apple store I guess they just wanted it gone.

*Cliff notes
Refurbed Laptop bad time
Refurbed iMac good.

**formerly galenaskater** · 13.11.2009, 13:33

hmm i think i'm gonna check the apple store later, my macbook pro is good as gold and still has 2.5 years of applecare left on it but i'm t hinking about getting a desktop to leave stationary at home. yeah i'd rather pay a bit more and have it come direct from apple. anyone have a recomendation for which imac or mac pro i should purchase if i'm going to be editing HD footage with Final Cut Pro. I want one that will be able to handle a decent amount of rendering

**Rickayyy** · 16.11.2009, 08:48

Originally Posted by CommonSense01

My macbook broke 3 months after my AppleCare ran out. They charged me a flat fee of $280 and after closer inspection ended up replacing 7 parts for me.

-Hard drive
-Super drive
-Display Bezel
-Main Logic Board
-Battery
-Video Inverter
-Other miscellaneous parts

That's why you should have renewed Applecare.

Applecare has a replaced my iPod like 3 times and completely fixed my iMac for free when the Logic Board failed ($900) and I'm about to take my Macbook in to get it checked out cause it's been acting a bit weird.

**kike mallahan** · 16.11.2009, 11:15

I would never buy a refurb laptop but plan on financing a refurb imac sometime around January.

**CommonSense01** · 16.11.2009, 16:56

Originally Posted by Rickayyy

Originally Posted by CommonSense01

My macbook broke 3 months after my AppleCare ran out. They charged me a flat fee of $280 and after closer inspection ended up replacing 7 parts for me.

-Hard drive
-Super drive
-Display Bezel
-Main Logic Board
-Battery
-Video Inverter
-Other miscellaneous parts

That's why you should have renewed Applecare.

Applecare has a replaced my iPod like 3 times and completely fixed my iMac for free when the Logic Board failed ($900) and I'm about to take my Macbook in to get it checked out cause it's been acting a bit weird.

I plan on getting a new computer when I graduate so I figured I didn't need to renew it for 1 year. I only lost out on like $30 by not renewing it.

**formerly galenaskater** · 16.11.2009, 17:12

Originally Posted by CommonSense01

Originally Posted by Rickayyy

Originally Posted by CommonSense01

My macbook broke 3 months after my AppleCare ran out. They charged me a flat fee of $280 and after closer inspection ended up replacing 7 parts for me.

-Hard drive
-Super drive
-Display Bezel
-Main Logic Board
-Battery
-Video Inverter
-Other miscellaneous parts

That's why you should have renewed Applecare.

Applecare has a replaced my iPod like 3 times and completely fixed my iMac for free when the Logic Board failed ($900) and I'm about to take my Macbook in to get it checked out cause it's been acting a bit weird.

I plan on getting a new computer when I graduate so I figured I didn't need to renew it for 1 year. I only lost out on like $30 by not renewing it.

that would of been common sense

i had to