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Apple Refurb Freebies
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Nothing like a free upgrade.
Ordered a refurb MBP should have come with a 250GB HD and got a 500GB HD.
I know in the past sometimes refurbs get delivered with double the RAM.
I am sure it is all 'luck of the draw."
Post your Refurb freebies here.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: The Rock
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I bought a refurbed MacBook Pro that had double the RAM than I'd ordered. To compensate for this freebie, its motherboard fried in 2 years 7 months almost to the day. That'll teach me not to get Applecare!
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Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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My ex had a 3G which came with a free broken mute button.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
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Not refurb but…
I bought a 2009 iMac i7 with 2x2 GB RAM. I then put in 2x2 more for a total of 8. The iMac broke a year later.
They replaced it with a faster 2010 iMac with 2x4 GB RAM, leaving 2 slots open. Since it was a new machine, it included a new Bluetooth keyboard and Magic Mouse, even though I still had the existing keyboard and mouse. Plus they took the old 2TB hard drive out of the broken iMac and gave it to me since they had no use for it.
I'm buying 2x2 more GB to bring me to 12 GB.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Your Anus
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I simultaneously ordered a MacBook that was supposed to have 1 gig of RAM and 4 gigs of RAM from a 3rd party.
My MacBook then arrived with 2 gigs. True story. Pointless, but true.
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Northwest Ohio
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Back in December 2003 I ordered a refurb dual 2.0 GHz Power Mac G5 (first generation) which was supposed to come standard with ATI Radeon Pro 9600 graphics card. The store's page even said that's what was in it.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that instead of the 9600 the computer actually had the Radeon Pro 9800 in it instead.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 46 & 2
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I ordered a basic 15" MBP and got the next model up with 2x the RAM.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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I once had a customer who got a 4 year old G5 replaced with a Mac Pro. He had the gall to moan it had 1GB less RAM than his G5. I think it cost him the price of a replacement G5 PSU (Apple ran out of stock of them)
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2005
Location: La Crosse, WI
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Originally Posted by subego
My ex had a 3G which came with a free broken mute button.
Winning!
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2.3 GHz Intel i5 MacBook Pro
iPhone 4 - 16 GB - Black
8gb iPod Nano
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
I once had a customer who got a 4 year old G5 replaced with a Mac Pro. He had the gall to moan it had 1GB less RAM than his G5. I think it cost him the price of a replacement G5 PSU (Apple ran out of stock of them)
That's one helluva deal, and he had the nerve to complain no less! Funny stuff.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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No pleasing some people. He was a miserable guy anyway. Even when I explained his new machine would be 10 times faster than the old one he was utterly nonplussed.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Originally Posted by Eug
Not refurb but…
I bought a 2009 iMac i7 with 2x2 GB RAM. I then put in 2x2 more for a total of 8. The iMac broke a year later.
They replaced it with a faster 2010 iMac with 2x4 GB RAM, leaving 2 slots open. Since it was a new machine, it included a new Bluetooth keyboard and Magic Mouse, even though I still had the existing keyboard and mouse. Plus they took the old 2TB hard drive out of the broken iMac and gave it to me since they had no use for it.
I'm buying 2x2 more GB to bring me to 12 GB.
Nice! Must have been the blokes from Yorkdale?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
No pleasing some people. He was a miserable guy anyway. Even when I explained his new machine would be 10 times faster than the old one he was utterly nonplussed.
Seriously.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
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Originally Posted by shabbasuraj
Nice! Must have been the blokes from Yorkdale?
Eaton Centre.
OTOH I was computerless for two months. They tried fixing it several times and each time they said it'd be fixed soon something new came up. Finally they just ordered me a new machine. I brought it home and turned it on only to find it had the wrong specs. So I lugged the 27" back and they investigated and then ordered another one.
That first order likely made a very nice refurb for someone.
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