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I have a 15" macbook pro I purchased in 2008. As I'm sure many of you are aware, it has overheating issues which ruins the logic board. I was doing the "bake it" fix for a few months and it worked fairly well. I got tired of screwing with it and got a refurbished macbook pro, which developed the same issue after 8 months. So now I have two macbook pros with bad logic boards. I can cook them and temporarily get them running again, but I am sick of messing with that. What's the best coarse of action here? Everything I have is mac based but I don't want to pay $1800 for a new mac. Is there anywhere at all to buy NEW logic boards? I can't find anything. I assume I have to take my computer to apple (which has no store around here) to get this fixed? Every logic board I see is pulled off of old macs, which won't do me any good. I assume all of the old logic boards have the same defect.
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Oct 26, 2014 20:37
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1997 posted:Those 2008 MacBook Pros are vintage and no longer serviced by Apple. It was a refurbished 2008. At the time I thought refurbished meant it got a new logic board. I guess I was wrong. Either that or the new boards had the same issues the old ones had. I have a PC as my primary laptop now. I just wanted to get my old computer(s) up and running so I could use the programs (like adobe suite) on them. I prefer the 15" screen for things like photo and video editing. If I got a newer used mac, could I pull and clone the HD from my old mac without an issue? I had Lion as the OS on my old mac so it's pretty up to date. I'm just trying to figure out the best (and cheapest) course of action. I don't want to buy a new mac. I am tired of Apple making it impossible to fix or replace anything on their computers.
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Oct 26, 2014 22:08
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Sounds like my best bet is to get a used mac, clone the HD, and piece out my old ones. Are the macbook pros made in the last 3 years better than the 08's? Obviously the 08-09's had issues. I have read that 2011 models had problems too. Any other years / models I should watch out for? I hate to have another one fail after a couple of years of use.
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Oct 27, 2014 01:04
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