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minus-squareFireWire400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down5·1 month agoJust 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.
minus-squareCucumberFetish@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-21 month agoImo untested always means dead. Especially when it is something easy to test - like a laptop
minus-squareFireWire400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoYes, 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
minus-squareCucumberFetish@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoRule 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
minus-squareFireWire400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month ago70€ 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
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.
Imo untested always means dead. Especially when it is something easy to test - like a laptop
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
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
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