[Macpartners] How much does MIT charge to replace a disk in a recent model G4 powerbook?

[Dave Lambert]

Hi Mark,

I decided to squeeze a few more years out of my PowerBook G4 when its internal
disk died a year ago since it was still meeting my needs.  The Apple store
confirmed it was a drive failure.  I asked about a replacement disk and was
quoted a huge price and told it would be shipped out for the service to 
be done
elsewhere.  The tech suggested a much faster and more reasonably priced option
was buying a compatible drive from Best Buy or equivalent place and find a
Apple authorized repair shop for the installation.  I ended up buying a $69
drive at Best Buy and paid $49 to the in-store Geek Squad folks to 
install it. For less than a 30 minute wait and $120, I walked out a 
happy camper.

-Dave

Quoting Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu>:

> Hi - I have a professor whose G4 (aluminum) powerbook's disk seems to be
> dying/dead.  I can boot off an external disk, and can open a terminal
> window and do an ls on the disk, and it shows part of it, then stops.
> I've tried running several different disk repair tools, and it tries to
> access the disk but then freezes, and I have to force exit the
> application.  Assuming the problem is the disk (93G), does anyone know
> approximately how much does MIT charge to fix it?  Thanks. - Mark
>
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