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My MacBook is too expensive to repair, what do I do ?
Dianesims
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So last week my MacBook Pro wouldn’t start. I took it to an Apple Store to be checked and, long story short, it’s either the hard drive that’s fried or the “main card” (not sure about the English word for it) and it would cost me either 500 or 600€ to repair depending on the problem.
They don’t know what caused it, there was dust inside, it might be that or it could be that I’ve been playing TS4 for over a year and it overheats and gets very loud and this could potentially have fried the hard drive (MAC players, be careful).
So here’s my dilemma, I can’t afford the repair costs (which sucks because my laptop is only 5 years old) nor a new MacBook Pro as the prices keep increasing and I’m kinda broke right now. I could try to find a second hand MacBook or, as I intend to play TS4 again, I could buy a PC that’s more affordable than a Mac and will handle TS4 better.
What’s your opinion ?
If you can advise me on a specific laptop that’s affordable I’d appreciate. I’m so bummed right now
They don’t know what caused it, there was dust inside, it might be that or it could be that I’ve been playing TS4 for over a year and it overheats and gets very loud and this could potentially have fried the hard drive (MAC players, be careful).
So here’s my dilemma, I can’t afford the repair costs (which sucks because my laptop is only 5 years old) nor a new MacBook Pro as the prices keep increasing and I’m kinda broke right now. I could try to find a second hand MacBook or, as I intend to play TS4 again, I could buy a PC that’s more affordable than a Mac and will handle TS4 better.
What’s your opinion ?
If you can advise me on a specific laptop that’s affordable I’d appreciate. I’m so bummed right now
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Also I fear I’m gonna lose all my saves (but not my games on Origin though). They said they could take the hard drive out so I can try and recover my data but I have no idea how to use it then. It not only has all my saves but also a lot of photos I don’t want to lose.
In your case I would ask how much it takes to recover what is on the hard drive, if they still say 500-600€, then try another company than the Apple store.
After that I would probably buy a second-hand PC, I don't know what country you live in but one of the cheapest way to buy a second-hand PC where I live is to buy used company laptops from sites that works with restoring them and reselling them.
Anyway, going to another computer repair shop tomorrow to see if they can repair it for a cheaper price, if not then I’ll ask them if they can recover my data and I’ll be buying a new laptop.
They said it’s odd that an ssd hard drive broke like that.
Yes, it is odd for an ssd to break down. My computer broke down once and I lost all my saves, from now on I am always taking backups on another hard drive.
Also I remembered I sent EA my save In August and to do so I stored it on Onedrive, I was able to get a lot of stuff back. Not the library or cc but at least most of my game