NWR: laptop trouble
Totally nothing to do with weddings here, and really unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but I just wanted to vent a little.
I took my 4+ year-old Macbook into the Apple store yesterday after over a year of it not recognizing it's plugged in (always says it's running on battery, when clearly the adapter is powering it). It's been running fine apart from that issue, so I thought I'd finally see what was really wrong with it. They kept it overnight to figure out the issue, and it turns out I need a new logicboard that'll cost me almost £400. Agh. There's no way we can afford that at the moment, so I said thanks but no thanks and picked it up this morning. At least I know what's wrong with it, but I was thinking it was going to be something like needing a new battery, which would have been more manageable. Like I said, it still works, so I guess I'll just wait and see how much longer I can get by before needing to do the repair or get a new laptop. Definitely not what I wanted to find out a week before our wedding
Thanks for listening to me whine.
I took my 4+ year-old Macbook into the Apple store yesterday after over a year of it not recognizing it's plugged in (always says it's running on battery, when clearly the adapter is powering it). It's been running fine apart from that issue, so I thought I'd finally see what was really wrong with it. They kept it overnight to figure out the issue, and it turns out I need a new logicboard that'll cost me almost £400. Agh. There's no way we can afford that at the moment, so I said thanks but no thanks and picked it up this morning. At least I know what's wrong with it, but I was thinking it was going to be something like needing a new battery, which would have been more manageable. Like I said, it still works, so I guess I'll just wait and see how much longer I can get by before needing to do the repair or get a new laptop. Definitely not what I wanted to find out a week before our wedding
Thanks for listening to me whine.
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As long as it's working then you're fine. 4 years is great if that's the original battery. I used to work at a battery store and I'd see this all the time, people saying they needed a new battery or charger when there was nothing wrong with either. Just plug it in when you need to charge it and remove it when it's done and you're battery will last even longer.0
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That happened to my Dell. First it stopped charging so it always had to be plugged in, then from trying to make sure it was always plugged in something came loose and it just doesn't work anymore. Well it will turn on if we hold the computer half way upside down while standing on one leg singing the alphabet. So we just don't use it anymore lol.0
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vk-I always had that problem with my Dell. I think I got 4 different chargers for it in the 4 years that I had it. Luckily, I bought it through my college laptop program so I got the chargers for free every time. I switched to a Mac after that and I've had it for about 3-4 years with no problems so far.
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