Re: boxes, I've bought four refurb products. Two iPods both had standard boxes; an Apple monitor came in a plain box; and the Mac Pro came in a standard Mac Pro box, like you'd get new.
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CraigG: what was the fault you only discovered after 13 months?
One of the hard-drive connectors was damaged. I only found this when upgrading the hard-drives, obv. Apple argued the toss, making me very angry, since this wasn't something I could have done myself. One I got my case escalated to the exec. team, Apple's attitude changed dramatically, unsurprisingly, and everything was repaired.
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What's the processor on your Mac Pro, BTW?
Full spec is:
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 5 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Bluetooth/AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x87)
+ 1 x 250 GB and 2 x 500 GB h/ds.
The Mac cost about £1500 new about 18 months back, and I added Bluetooth/AirPort, 1 TB storage, 4 GB RAM. Mac2Sell reckons £1310 is the current value, but I think that's probably OTT.