[Macpartners] A1286 failures

[David M. Templeton]

When were these machines bought? Apparently, A1286 is used for both current and older MBP unibody 15s.

http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1286

-Dave
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On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:09, Helen Rose <hrose at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> In the past week we've had three MacBook Pro A1286s fail (out of a total of 61). One had a fan that died (at least we think it's the fan, it was definitely burning electronics), and two have dead hard drives. 
> 
> Hard drive symptoms: the machines run slower and slower and then eventually don't work at all. Disk Utility reports dead disk. 
> 
> This is a heads up, and also to see if anyone else has seen a similar pattern. 
> 
> --Helen
> 
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