“$230 to replace a HD cable. $65 for the cable itself and $140 for labor. I'm going to give these guys the benefit of the doubt and five stars because the repair seems to have been done properly, but this confirms my suspicion that Apple hardware is both overpriced and overrated and now I see that the repair is ridiculously expensive too. If you're on the fence, save yourself and get a PC. I could have bought a lovely PC-based laptop for $230 off of Craiglist, and I'm not even counting the $130 I already spent on Disk Warrior just to get the files off because Disk Utility couldn't cope with the drive. The only reason I have a Mac myself is to have one foot in the door in the Mac development world, but I've gotten increasingly disenchanted with Apple hardware over the years, and increasingly tolerant of PC-based hardware, especially if you put something like Ubuntu on it. And DIYers: you might want to fiddle with things a bit more than I did: I can't imagine not finding any HD cables on the Internet for less than $65, and I've done DIY repairs much more complex than a HD cable replacement before. I shouldn't have thrown in the towel so quickly.”
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“$230 to replace a HD cable. $65 for the cable itself and $140 for labor. I'm going to give these guys the benefit of the doubt and five stars because the repair seems to have been done properly, but this confirms my suspicion that Apple hardware is both overpriced and overrated and now I see that the repair is ridiculously expensive too. If you're on the fence, save yourself and get a PC. I could have bought a lovely PC-based laptop for $230 off of Craiglist, and I'm not even counting the $130 I already spent on Disk Warrior just to get the files off because Disk Utility couldn't cope with the drive. The only reason I have a Mac myself is to have one foot in the door in the Mac development world, but I've gotten increasingly disenchanted with Apple hardware over the years, and increasingly tolerant of PC-based hardware, especially if you put something like Ubuntu on it. And DIYers: you might want to fiddle with things a bit more than I did: I can't imagine not finding any HD cables on the Internet for less than $65, and I've done DIY repairs much more complex than a HD cable replacement before. I shouldn't have thrown in the towel so quickly.”