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Originally Posted by fredr123
I tried to search for a thread but couldn't find anything recent.
I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that my son stepped on recently. The keyboard and trackpad fail to work intermittently and the iSight camera can no longer be found for whatever reason. If I plug a USB keyboard and mouse into the machine, I can still use the computer. I'm guessing my son snapped some cables (or worse).
For a while, I was able to fix the keyboard/trackpad problem with this: http://lbarclay.wordpress.com/2009/0...d-not-working/ but now even that won't work.
I'm looking for advice or recommendations for a repair shop in Calgary that can fix my problems. Google tells me there's the Apple Store, macmechanic.ca, mymacdealer.ca, and probably others.
Does anyone have any experience with these other guys? Am I best to just head over to the Apple Store and take my lumps there? |
mymacdealer.ca - I'd recommend getting My Mac Dealer to take a look at it first, they are a bit more inclined to help you stretch the life out of older macs than the Apple Store. Sometimes the people there can be a bit hit & miss with their helpfulness & friendliness (sometimes they are fantastic, other times they seem disinterested) but I've never had them try & steer me towards a new purchase VS repair.
Another option if your comfortable opening up your laptop yourself is to look at the repair guides/parts from
http://www.ifixit.com.
As backwards as it sounds I'd recommend the Apple store last, their repairs are the most expensive and it's just a little to easy to get sucked into the vortex of "well for only a few hundred more you can get into a brand new laptop! Look how much faster they've gotten" when immersed among rows & rows of shiny apple toys.