The MacBook Returns

… with a bonus.

I sent it off to get a dead hard drive and a discolored top-half fixed.

It came back with a new hard drive (OSX 10.4 preloaded of course), new top-half (still with the protective plastic cover on it), and a couple of other minor recall issues fixed.

However, I sent the machine off with a single 512M SODIMM installed.
It came back with that 512M SODIMM *and* a 256M SODIMM installed.

Would be a nice free bonus, if I didn’t already have two 1G SODIMMs here waiting on it - I just put the “official Apple” 512M SODIMM in it when I sent it in for service, as Apple gets really picky about third-party memory and my 1G SODIMMs are Crucial-brand.

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3 Responses to 'The MacBook Returns'

Mando Says:
February 6th, 2007 at 1:59 am
If you’ve got an extra 512 stick of PC2-5300 memory laying around, I’ve got a hungry iMac that sure would love some more memory :).

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Mando

Mark Benson Says:
February 6th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Re: Third Party RAM in Macs, I don’t see why Apple have a case to get stressed about using Crucial RAM - it’s retail badged Micron RAM (Crucial is Micron’s retail division) and a good half of Apple’s OEM RAM is made in the USA by MICRON, and has been for a long time.

I guess it’s like putting a non-genuine OEM filter on your car though - both you and the car maker know it’s the right thing but they haven’t put their badge on it so they get stressed.

Bill Bradford Says:
February 6th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Mando, I’ve got to keep the gen-u-ine Apple 512M stick in case I have to send either of my systems in for service again. You can have the 256 stick if you want, though.