Phew! Apple saved my Macbook Pro

Macbook Pro Motherboard A few days ago my MacBook Pro suddenly died. Strange pinkish blocks and effects showed up on my screen until the whole thing stopped working. Every week I make an external backup, but as always there was a lot of work on the machine since the last backup. Thank God Apple has come up with something called Target Mode, so I was able to recover the last changes from the machine.

This machine was the topmodel MacBook Pro v 3.1 with all the extra's you can think of built in by Apple (BTO). I refused to buy AppleCare because I think that Apple should give more than the 1 year standard warranty and should not make me pay for that. If I wanted something crappy I would buy a mainstream machine with something like Vista. I am willing to spend more money on a product (in this case a WHOLE lot of money) but in exchange I expect great parts and service from the manufacturer. Even my new Kia Pro Cee'd has 7 year warranty!

Lucky me, in all of their wisdom Apple decided the same thing and provided me with a brand new mainboard in a machine that is just over 2 years old. This is exactly what I expect from a company like Apple and would like to let you know that there are still some company's that offer a superb product along with great service.

My MacBook Pro 17" a.k.a THE BEAST is alive!

Update: Normally the replacement of a motherboard by a Apple Repair Center should go hand in hand with flashing your machine's serialnumer onto the new motherboard. But what happens when they "forget" to do that? Read my other article what kind of strange behaviour is the result of this mistake.

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