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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 16:57:55 JST clacke

   WHAT

   Changing the battery cells in this 2013 MBP will cost me only 450 HKD?? (50 EUR)

   Should have had it done years ago!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 06:20:42 JST clacke

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     • Tim Lavoie
     @tim_lavoie It's the quotation they gave me. We'll see, I suppose.
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     Tim Lavoie (tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 06:20:43 JST Tim Lavoie

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     @clacke Really? Is that just the battery cells? My 2013 Retina MBP needed the whole case top, with keyboard and track-pad, since it's all glued.

     And then a charging circuit went on the motherboard, and I discovered ThinkPads.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 09:41:50 JST clacke

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     • Tim Lavoie

     @tim_lavoie The machine has other issues too and they will change the screen and lower chassis and the total will be 5000 HKD. They itemized the costs and suddenly the batteries were 700 HKD, but when I said what price they had given me last week they gave me a package deal that was far lower than the total of the items.

     And it's still lower than buying a refurbished ThinkPad (which I'm also doing – that's for me and fixing the Mac is for the kid).

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     Tim Lavoie (tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 09:41:51 JST Tim Lavoie

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     @clacke nice, if so!