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I posted a few days ago about my sons mac laptop that quit working.The guys at Best buy say it needs a new hard drive.He bought it last year and they say it's three months out of warranty.They
gave him a rough estimate of 375 to fix it.He could buy three new dells computers for what the apple cost.Is there anyone that sells mac parts?
Best buy claims only mac repair centers can get mac parts.Trying to decide wether to fix it or just buy a dell.
 
We had two HP desktop computers that didn't last nearly as long as they should. Bought a cheap e-machine last time; it has outlasted the HP's.
 
Take a look at macsales.com. I'd suggest getting a solid-state drive instead of a hard drive; more expensive per byte but a lot more robust.
 
You can get a HD for about $100 for them, and can download the OS from Apple. I would not buy a new computer just for a HD.
 
My crop consultant used to buy computers from Best Buy. The LAST one never worked before the warranty ran out. They never got to use it at all. He told his help, that if they ever bought anything from them again that he would fire them.

Looong on sales and short on service at a high price.
 
We have had at least a dozen HP's over the years and only lost one mother board and that was to lightning. Had two Dell's and the mother board went out on both and one lap top needed a new keyboard. We are running five HP's now. One on my lap, two in the temporary dining room office, one in my upstairs office and one in my factory office. Also a working one that will not run the newer office soft ware in my upstairs office and another same deal in one of the unused factory office. We only use HP's because of our excellent history with them. Sorry you had bad luck.
 
My son just gave me his Toshiba laptop that is only a year old that quit working. I diagnosed it as a bad hardrive. $49 dollars later i installed the new drive and loaded windows 7 back on it and it works like a new one. I was going to order a new laptop with windows 7 anyway. Makes it pretty cheap.
nnalert hardrives
 
I am finding that about 1/2 of my laptop hard drives fail between 1-2 years. We have about 15 in the company, so starting to get a sample size.

I am changing them all out at one year with solid state drives. It is cheaper for me to plan that than have an Engineer not able to work for a day or two unplanned.
 
Best Buy is full of it. I've got my own story about their incompetence, I'll save it for another time. I'm certainly not letting them touch my computer again.

When my eMac's hard drive died, I took it to Micro Center. There they told me that they didn't have that drive in stock, they would have to order it. Or I could just go out in the showroom, pick out a drive, and they would install it. Two hours later I had a new, larger drive (that was on sale) in my computer and took it home. Good as new.
 
My company (Fortune rank #91) has switched over to HP Elite Books from the IBM/Lenovos that we'd been using since the dawn of the PC age. They buy tens of thousands of them. All have solid state drives. I personally have always owned HPs... two desktops and the recent one a somewhat cheap laptop. All have been very good, no hard drive failures. My last desktop had the power button break so I couldn't turn it on. The other just got outdated. I won't say the same for HP printers, they work fine for a couple of years then something makes it unusable.

"Friends don't let friends buy Apples"
 
Way too much money for that repair. No one builds their own HDs so you're pretty much as likely to get a failure on one brand as another. another plug for Macsales, AKA OWC. They have lots of help and videos to show you exactly how to install what they sell. Hopefully you've been using Time Machine for backups. If so, install new drive, fire up Time Machine, it'll detect the new disc ans ask if you want to restore the last backup to your new drive. Simple, just like it should be.

I use both Macs and PCs at work all day. At the end of the day I love to restore my sanity by going home to an all-Mac environment...
 
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