{"id":330429,"date":"2010-02-17T05:51:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5473597"},"modified":"2010-02-17T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:51:31","slug":"apple-offering-free-hard-drive-replacements-for-macbooks-bought-between-2006-2007-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330429","title":{"rendered":"Apple Offering Free Hard Drive Replacements For MacBooks Bought Between 2006 &#8211; 2007 [Apple]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_macbook-failure.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>MacBooks bought between 2006 and 2007 could be eligible for a free <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #harddrive\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/harddrive\/\">hard drive<\/a> replacement, with Apple dodging a guilty admission, stating that &#8220;a very small percentage&#8230;may fail under certain conditions.&#8221; <strong>UPDATED<\/strong> (with advice from a Mac Genius).<\/p>\n<p>If you own a white or black MacBook bought between 2006 and 2007, with either a 1.83GHz, 3Ghz, or 2.16GHz processor and 60GB, 80GB, 100GB, 120GB or 160GB, you may be in luck. Or out of luck&mdash;as you have to prove the hard drive actually has failed.<\/p>\n<p>The offer is open until August the 15th of this year, or three years after the MacBook was purchased. Now all Apple has to do is <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5468824\/the-faulty-imac-saga-chapter-5-the-moment-of-truth\">address the faulty iMac problem<\/a>, and we&#8217;re gold. Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5458382\/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad\">these eight issues<\/a> with the iPad&#8230;[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2010\/02\/17\/macbook_hard_drive_replacements\/\">Reg Hardware<\/a>]<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nImage credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theyoungthousands\/4260932291\/\">TheYoungThousands<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A Mac Genius has written in with the following information:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;the hdd replacement applies to macbook models &#8220;Macbook 13-inch&#8221; (i.e. the original 06 model) and &#8220;Macbook mid-2007.&#8221; there is a model in between that is not covered. Also, unlike Apple REPs (repair extension programs), these repairs appear on what apple calls its CS-Matrix (a breakout list of procedure deemed eligible for customer service, or &#8220;CS&#8221; codes). the CS-matrix is not governed by the 3-year REP expiration and is considered &#8220;cover until further notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>if you really want to freak out a genius bar employee, just sidle up and mention you have a CS-matrix-eligible macbook hard drive replacement. or don&#8217;t because we&#8217;ll hate you for being douchey ;)&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=05bcc96bf7ce67398a29daeda4fc3c2b&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=05bcc96bf7ce67398a29daeda4fc3c2b&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5yVyakspYr8:oAUEg-Uky74:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5yVyakspYr8:oAUEg-Uky74:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5yVyakspYr8:oAUEg-Uky74:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=5yVyakspYr8:oAUEg-Uky74:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=5yVyakspYr8:oAUEg-Uky74:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=5yVyakspYr8:oAUEg-Uky74:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/5yVyakspYr8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBooks bought between 2006 and 2007 could be eligible for a free hard drive replacement, with Apple dodging a guilty admission, stating that &#8220;a very small percentage&#8230;may fail under certain conditions.&#8221; UPDATED (with advice from a Mac Genius). If you own a white or black MacBook bought between 2006 and 2007, with either a 1.83GHz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}