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took mine in after it wouldn't power up and after spending an hour of service time £83 those half baked charlies told me my logic board was dead and would work out better for me to buy a new macbook pro.
i took it back home and thought i'd give it a go nothing to lose and had it working within 5 minutes, called the shop up and they were like oh but oh but.
i said i swapped the ram which it said they had done in the report, i dont want to go on but they even lost a screw for the case.

I take it you got them to refund you right?

nope not yet got to go back in again

i had almost ordered a new one as well....

logic board's dead? god now I have vivid memory of my old shitty iBook...

refund

I am a technician at Mac 1, and would like to address these false allegations so that members of this forum do not form an unjustly ill opinion of our services.

The laptop in question was brought in because the system was both refusing to start up, and on occasion would start up but cut out after a few minutes of usage. I disassembled the unit and checked that the hard drive, optical drive and other detachable components were not causing these problems. Once I had established that they were not, I checked for the other two major causes of such problems - the 'topcase' of the machine and the installed RAM. The machine continued to refuse to start up. At this point, I concluded that the logic board was faulty and contacted you, at which point you took the unit back.

You called to say that you had successfully started up the machine with your original factory installed RAM from Apple. A different engineer, as a follow-up test, had removed a temperature sensor from the logic board to double-check the topcase and by coincidence this has allowed your logic board to function — but only with one RAM chip. The unit will also not run without the battery plugged in (though the battery will be charged when plugged in), indicating another logic board fault. As for the missing screw, it is very common for one of the case screws to become loose and fall out of the case. However, I returned the screws to you in a separate anti-static bag and gave you this missing screw from our supply of screws.

Although there is a problem with your RAM, it is not the main source of your problems as the logic board has multiple faults. I am disappointed that you felt the need to publicly defame our company.

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Fight Fight Fight

and I am concerned that you were so worried about this issue that you took the time to find this post on a random bike forum, when you should be telling all this to the OP, Is this the official line of your company? Are you that scared of one person saying 'don't use this company' ?

Are you Tony De Foney in disguise??

Jeez

Macs, and computers in general, are easy to fix.

83 quid an hour. fucking hell. I'd do it for 33 quid an hour.

"mac1 london" brings this page 4th in Google.

Power of the interwange

£33cash + income tax + VAT = £83

racist

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yeah, well, close enough when you add NI ... it comes to about £73 per hour, so whoop-de-doo

non-racist.

no i think you have no idea what you are doing i stuck the other ram in the second slot to check when i got home after you said it would only function with one and it works showing 1.5gb ram. making me think that you are trying to make up problems to cover the fact you didn't find a faulty stick of ram and charged me £83 for the pleasure.
i had a go at you because i nearly forked out a grand for a new mac, i think that would piss most people off.
and there is a screw missing from the back.

oh and i wrote that without the battery pluged in

screws don't "just fall out"

Anyone who knows anything about computers knows random reboots are generally caused by faulty RAM. Oh wait.. Mac.. so you've never opened the case, don't know what overclocking is, never used "Front Side Bus" in conversation. Hmm.. still woulda gone for the RAM first.
£83/hr? Fucking 'ell.. why the fuck did I leave the service dept. for a development degree?!

what a curious thread

Power of forums: Google "mac1 repair" this page = #1

"repair mac london" this page = #10

Oh my God the FSB is a JOKE on the old PPC Mac!

alice fisher, of the observer?

surely not the alice fisher of fixie-geared bike fame?

speak english, boy.

The Front Speed Bus is to put it simply a in layman's term a pipe to move the processing power of the processor to the computer, now with a tiny pipe, you can't use the full GHz of the processor, only a small margin of the power can be use due to the really slow FSB, that why Mac aren't usually used for rendering, it was too slow until the introduction of the Intel chip (we call X86)

a bigger pipe with enough room to take advantage of the fast processor would make a difference, in PC, generally a 1.6GHz computer have says an 800MHz FSB, decent enough to take advantage of the processor performance, but Mac, those shitty old G4 (we call them PPC) and such, despite having 1.67GHz, have only 167MHz FSB, that's the max it can go, cannot go any higher, so a 1.33GHz G4 is almost identical to the 1.67GHz G4 because of the FSB, which is 167MHz.

No that didn't work, I didn't even speak english.

Yeah.. that'll help clear things up for pj..

@edscoble, they arn't realtiive numbers. and look up defination of 'layman term'.

anyway, you can take any age mac to regent st for free halp

interesting, maybe you and pajamas should get together, you know, shoot the shit.

kinda, £300 to fixed my PowerBook isn't exactly free.