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[–] FireWire400 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Just bought myself a late 2011 17" MacBook Pro, it was listed as untested but I took the gamble... Yeah, its logic board turned out to be dead.

I bought far older ThinkPads for less money that worked perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would be extremely skeptical of buying something listed as untested. How hard is it to test if a Mac works you just turn it on if it doesn't turn on it's broken. It takes like 30 seconds.

However if you turn it on and it's broken but you don't want to sell it for parts you can always just sell it as "untested".

[–] FireWire400 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess not everyone has Magsafe 1 adapters lying around...

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