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Many, many years ago I had an apple laptop that I took into a shop to get cleaned up and the fans replaced (it had gotten gunky and one of the fans would stop p
by shagie 4y ago
Many, many years ago I had an apple laptop that I took into a shop to get cleaned up and the fans replaced (it had gotten gunky and one of the fans would stop periodically).
Upon getting the laptop back, I got memory errors occasionally. When those memory errors became more common than coincidence could ascribe, my brother (more mechanically inclined than I) opened it up to check on the fan (maybe it was getting too hot again?) only to find that the memory had been replaced with 3rd party memory (this was the first time the laptop had been taken anywhere to get fixed).
Think back to the decade and more ago and all the fly by night phone and laptop repair places that existed.
I would be surprised if mine was a unique story.
And so, here's the question - how do you prevent a disreputable repair shop from swapping parts? If I hadn't had my brother open it up and look to see if the fans were gunking up again or loose wire or something, would I be blaming Apple for the memory errors on my laptop?
- kube-system 4y agoI have a family member who just bought a Dell laptop listed as new on Amazon. It seemed a suspiciously slow when I used it to look something up. (a new $600 laptop shouldn't take 10+ seconds to open a web browser) I looked up the service tag; the memory and storage had both been swapped with dirt cheap replacements. Turns out it came from a third party seller who does "upgrades" to all of their laptops before they reseal the package and send them out.