Refurbished macs
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- Miguex0
No offense Stuggo, but whenever I hear people wondering about refurbished stuff with fear, makes me a bit uncomfortable..
In my experience, the 2 times I bought a brand new apple product it came with defects, first one the hinge of my wallstreet g3 wouldn't close properly all the way, it stayed open on one side and it was annoying, SPECIALLY since I pay the full price.
The Second one was with one of the first powerbooks, it came with 2 dead pixels, Again it sucks and apple's policy is not do do anything unless you have like 7 pixels.
I have bought everything I can refurbished since then, from projectors to dslr cameras. I always check if I can find a refurbished version from the manufacturer before I buy new, and it's not even about the price anymore, it's about feeling more secure that what I buy will work better than what is expected from a brand new product.
In my opinion, a brand new product comes from factory to you, un-opened. A refurbished product has an extra level of quality control, and it has been corrected TO MATCH BRAND NEW PRODUCT QUALITY STANDARDS, but its charged less because it's not factory sealed.
Refurbished products, should in all cases, be elegible for manufacturer's warranty, so there's really NOTHING to fear about.
I would be more concerned about buying factory sealed...
- quite true.
Apple has warranty for refurbished items, as far as i rememberk_temp - amenmonospaced
- quite true.