Apple MacBook 13″ 2.0GHz Core Duo – Water Damaged

AppleMacBook 13″ 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo Black – Kernel Panics on boot. Failed logic board

Apple MacBook Pro 15″ 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo – Failed Logic Board

Apple iMac 20″ 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo – Failed Graphics Card

Parts available include

17″ Display assembly
BCM94321MC Airport Card
B922-8388 - Backlit Keyboard
922-8395 – Left Fan
922-8396 – Right Fan

Please enquire if the part you require isn’t listed…

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Parts inc
661-4478 – 2007 24″ PSU 240w
922-8205, 820-2136 – Audio board 20/24″
661-4426 – ATI Radeon HD2600 video card
B661-4460 – Airport card
922-8233 – BT Board
661-4431 – LCD LM240WU2 2007/08
922-8471 – Front case
922-8469 – Front glass
922-8182 – rear case
Leg
Hinge
Optical Drive 

and more. Enquire if the part you require isn’t listed.

Parts Inc
614-0377 – PSU for 17″/20″ iSight White (both G5 & Intel) 
LM201W01(ST)(B2) – LCD 20″ G5 – one left
A1127 – Airport Card
Casing
iSight Camera
Cables
820-1934-A – DC Board
922-6992 922-6993 922-6991 – Fans
Speakers
Sensors

Parts Inc
661-3275 – LCD Assembly – good condition
B922-5776 – UK Keyboard
661-2765 – Airport Card
922-6062 – Sound board
922-6063 – DC in board
922-6208 – Fans & heatsink

Apple PowerBook G4 1.5GHz A1095 x 2 – Smashed LCDs

Parts Inc
820-1600-A – Logic Board 1.5GHz
B922-6105 – UK Keyboard
661-2755 – Airport Extreme Card
922-5764 – BT Board
922-5994 – Right USB board
820-1507-A / 820-1508-A – Ambient Light sensor boards Left / Right
Hinge/Clutch mechanism
DVD-r Drives
922-6089 – DC In board
922-6015 – Inverter board

Parts Inc
661-3627 – PSU Power Supply
LM171W02 – LCD 17″
661-3608 – Inverter
A1127 – Airport & BT Board
UJ-825 Optical Drive

iMac G5 20″ – Failed logic board

Parts Inc
LM201W01 – LCD 20″
661-3623 – Inverter board
661-3625 – Power Supply

This week though I’ve performed a similar upgrade in a completely different but much faster way. The customer was quite happy with the laptops original 250GB capacity, but wanted more oomph. The machine in question was a 2.4 Unibody MacBook, so this features a SATA hard drive & SATA optical drive. Well it did. It now has a 64GB SSD drive in the original drive bay, and the original 250GB drive now resides in a Optibay adapter in the optical drive bay. It’s been setup so the 64GB is purely for the OS & applications and the original 250GB drive is purely for user data. Advanced options in Mac OS allow us to tell OS X to use the 2nd drive as the default for all user data, so this dual drive setup is invisible to the end user & the OS. To all intents & purposes the user doesn’t see that they are using two separate hard drives.

The performance however… bloody hell it’s quick now. It boots in 10 seconds to the login window, applications aren’t just snappier as I reported with my Hybrid drive upgrade, they just load in a way you’re just not used to. Quicker, and a lot less beach balling whilst it thinks about it (not even sure I’ve seen the beach ball to be honest). And this is still with the actual data stored on good old mechanical discs.

I tested it back to back with a similar 2.13GHz MacBook with the original mechnical hard drive and it just absolutely thrashed it. The difference between the two is night & day. I also tested it back to back with a brand new £1000 13″ Core i5 MacBook Pro, that was a lot closer in performance, but you’d still say the SSD equipped mac was quicker. And being SSD it shouldn’t lose that performance over time either.

And the price for this new found performance? Well the 64GB SSD, Optibay conversion & data clone costs £160 plus P&P*. A bargain for a much fresher quicker mac. 

Downsides, well this does mean you no longer have an internal optical drive in your Mac (rumours are the next gen won’t anyway), but if you’ve got a second mac these can be shared across the network. Alternatively for £30 you can buy a USB powered DVD-r drive so you can still use a DVD when you need one.

How convinced am I? Well I may have only performed the hybrid upgrade 6 months ago, but my own MacBooks going to get an SSD upgrade very soon…

*subject to drive price fluctuations

Pricing Update – June 2012

Since the above was written SSD prices are sliding downwards somewhat, the biggest being the 512GB which are down from the above £570 to sub £400 fitted and 256GB down to £220.

For the dual drive setups the 64GB is a little cheaper now at £145, but we can now supply a 128GB dual drive setup for £170!

(all plus collect & return shipping of course)

Still unsure, here’s a MacBook Pro with SSD booting…

Parts inc:

661-4685 : 24″ LCD panel
661-4665 : 250W PSU
661-4667 : Logic Board
E8435 : 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
922-8457 : Camera board
922-8469 : Front glass panel 24″
922-8578 : Hinge mechanism
922-8471 : Aluminium Front Case
BCM94321MC : Airport/Wireless Card
DVD-r Drive

Apple iMac 24″ Aluminium – 3.06GHz – Breaking for parts – Graphics card failure

Ex heavy smokers machine, most parts substandard
661-4685 : 24″ LCD panel – really bad uneven backlight, fit for testing only
661-4665 : 250W PSU
661-4667 : Logic Board
E8435 : 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
922-8457 : Camera board
922-8469 : Front glass panel 24″
922-8578 : Hinge mechanism
922-8471 : Aluminium Front Case
BCM94321MC : Airport/Wireless Card

Please contact me for parts requirements

Parts Inc:
661-4184 : 24″ LCD Panel – Mint
661-4183 : 24″ PSU Power Supply
661-4182 : 24″ Logic Board
T7400 : 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo Processor
922-7824 : Hinge mechanism
661-4289 : Airport Card (BCM94321MC)
922-7833 : iSight camera & controller board

Failing graphics card. All other parts available including good LCD.